Sitting on the train in the Okayama station looking at the kanji on the station sign. The kanji for ‘oka’ looks like a man hanging from gravity boots in a doorway. (I already knew ‘yama’–it looks like a mountain and means ‘mountain’.) Sent from my TRS-80
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Guess the Amenity
And now for today’s episode of What The Hell Is This Thing? Version: Guess the Amenity. (Facebook users: the vast majority of these posts are longer than appear here. You should always click on the picture, even if there’s no indication there’s something there!)
The first ramen of the trip!
Ostensibly the entire reason for this trip is ramen. A year ago, we were watching the show The Mind of a Chef, the first season of which featured David Chang, who had many formative experiences with ramen, and who kept coming back to ramen. After yet another episode that mentioned ramen, Toby turned to me…
Just for you, Rachel from California!
(Hiding behind More tag to increase suspense)
This is our view right now
This is the view out our hotel room window. That blazingly bright thing in the middle there? Only Osaka Castle. 🙂
Ekiben! And other food!
(Posting from the Kodama Shinkansen bound for Shin-Osaka. I love living in the future.) And now it’s the first ekiben of the trip! Eki means ‘train station’ and ‘ben’ is short for ‘bento’ (a boxed lunch, basically, for those of you who aren’t familiar with it). So an ekiben is a boxed meal sold to…
Sekai Cafe
We’re currently sitting at a cafe in Asakusa, Tokyo that serves vegan and halal foods. We’re just having coffee (Toby) and orange juice (me), but it’s interesting. They serve meat, but you can get vegan stuff if you wanted.
Tokyo Skytree–Urban Sprawl and Fuji-san
There are three pictures in this post, but I’m going to put them after a jump/cut/More tag–whichever your service calls it–so as not to overwhelm people’s feeds. I’ve also found a photo-resizing app and installed it so I won’t have to post ginormous pics. I won’t claim that it retains the quality very well, as…
And LJ-DW readers
Aaa agh it posted EVERY PHOTO UPLOADED to LJ and DW! Cannot log into Facebook at the moment to check how awful THAT turned out. Will try to work this out when I can get on wifi instead of this rental phone.
For you mail subscribers
The photos don’t seem to attach to the notification email if I send more than one, so you may want to check the website when you get one.