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Japan day 4: Crow Castle

The traditional Japanse castle in Matsumoto is the oldest and only one of the surviving castles to be painted black. It is very well preserved and Includes and exquisite collection of match and flint lock guns. The vast majority of the day was taken up by an annoying local train…

Japan Day 3: snow monkeys!

Yudanaka does not have onsen only for people but monkeys as well. While paling in comparison to la isla de los monos in Peru, the snow monkey sanctuary was pretty sweet. Monkeys, monkeys everywhere and close enough to shake off on you after dipping in their hot springs. Since its…

Japan: 旅館で朝ご飯

Breakfast at the ryokan was more delicious than dinner since there were no gelatinous or sticky substances (no nattou yet). It included smoked salmon, a scrambled egg concoction, roll your own maki, a vegetable and fish cake soup, miso soup, local yogurt, and more. Hora (see the pictures).

Japan Day 2: 温泉町へ

It’s hard to know exactly what day it is at this point, but the jet lag mitigation plan seems to have worked. We’re tired but fully functional. Japan is by far the most confusing place to navigate of any of our foreign in destinations. Addresses are nonsensical at best. Places…

Japan Day 1: 行って来ます

Japan in T-minus 14 hours. My great plan is to have already shifted my day by 6 hours (thanks Diablo III) leaving only another 6 hours of jet lag. We arrive in Tokyo at 11 pm local time so I can just go to sleep “normally” when we arrive. Of…

Unexpected Schwag

A package of Mini schwag unexpectedly arrived today. The coolest part is the shipping container which becomes a reusable bag when turned inside-out

Bread baking level up

On Monday I succeeded in leveling up my bread baking. I diverged from my usual recipe that I felt was too cake like. This one is soft and delicious.

Age of Aquarius…or something

The moon, Jupiter, and Venus are in alignment tonight. The picture is wholly misrepresentative.

Japanese Tube Papercraft

This robot samurai and dog, named Rokusuke and Hachi, were found for me at the MoMA gift shop. It’s a pack of paper tubes and bilingual instructions. All you need to assemble them are a pair of scissors. Check out piperoid.jp/en/index.html .