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Kyoto already seems like a promising city due to trash receptacles. Shizu looked pretty embarrassed when we all got excited over these cans and started taking pictures but I don’t know how she could expect anything more from the same group that sprinted off to the McDonald’s instead of shopping for Japanese delicacies for dinner. […]

We’ve just arrived in Kyoto so I have little to share yet. I offer this instead – a random assortment of pictures that caught my eye. One more shot of beautiful Takayama from their Red Bridge: Helpful signage: There are almost no garbage cans in Japan. Shizu says it’s a response to the Sarin gas […]

Ron is such an optimist that he still demands we go down to breakfast right at 7, when I am long past caring. Yesterday, there was a grill-your-own-fish station as the highlight of the buffet, featuring blowfish, which is apparently deadly if you don’t cook it right. Those are some mighty high stakes for breakfast. […]

I’ve noticed a few things about Japanese culture as we travel around. Mostly, I contrast it to our time in Beijing and Shanghai. I recall one night in Shanghai, when we were simply trying to turn right out of our hotel parking lot on our tour bus, when we were stuck for 40 minutes as […]