japan summary

new plan: move to Japan, open up a little ramen shop. 

I love japan. 

japan met my expectations and hopes just the way I expected and hoped.  it was all very satisfactory. 

japan is the exact opposite of india: clean, polite,  no cow shit, beautiful queuing, pristine and plentiful toilets (the dirtiest toilet I saw in japan was still cleaner than the cleanest in India).

It's reassuring to know you could poo anytime and anywhere in public using hygienic restrooms.  that care free confidence, I can only imagine, must be what it feels like to have universal health care. 

this country plays really great jazz covers of American classic and pop songs. update: legit great cover songs.

japan day 6: kobe

cup noodle factory/museum
ikeda
kobe
sannomiya shopping

making instant noodles at the cup noodle museum

paying my respect to the cup noodle god. 

wise words of god King momofuko ando 

Japan: day 5

kuromon foods stuff:
shopping
maricar

me eating a usd$17/50 grams slice japanese wagyu beef.

various seafood

shopping street so long you literallly can't see the opposite end, it stretches to the horizon. 

greatest moment of my life. Mario costume, go cart, night streets of Osaka japan. 

coffee and cigarettes

ticking away,  the moments that make up a dull day

Sandai udon

mountain vegetables noodles. that goma sesame tofu thing was pretty special.

okunoin

at night.  even more unreal. 

eerie 

a fairy tale scene.

walking through was sometimes terrifying with your own ghosts, sometimes because of wierd chirping noises, creepy crows caws and mysterious noises. 

koya line

this train is even  louder than the Bart.

japan day four:koyasan

free day for all.  I debated bulleting to tokyo via bullet train but talked myself out of that waste of time money and energy.  

so I did something way better instead.  spent all day (and night) walking around a graveyard.  

200,000 to 300,000 graves, massive grounds with shiny new marble grave stones to collapsed moss covered ones centuries old.

 

 

japan day three

Uji green tea capital of japan.

 

 

koyasan

unreal. 

this place is unreal.

Japan day two: Kyoto

bamboo forest
amazing traditional tofu restaurant
tenryu ji temple

river walk then the temple

then ramen dinner

choose your menu, buy your ticket via computer console,  then get in line, then get seated in tiny 10-15 seat shop.

misc.

japan day one: kyoto

kiyomizu temple

love temple

sanjusangen do temple
shopping
ninja restaurant

ninja restaurant. I didn't know this thing existed but I'm glad it does. bucket list item retroactively checked.