Daycare sent us this snap of Maru the Shiba and his Shiba friends. 📷🐕
This grass along the river was a pretty orange, more saturated than you’d expect normally in the fall. 📷🌾
Maru the Shiba of Awaji Island turns 3 today; happy birthday little buddy! He still doesn’t like his birthday hat & bib, but he loved the special meal K made! 🎉🐕3️⃣
Today 11/24 is the anniversary of the first opera performed in Japan, Faust, in 1894 (M27). 🎭🇯🇵
Our visit to Shirakawago a couple years ago was lovely. We missed the snow by a week. 📷🏔️🇯🇵
Thanking you for your labors since Labor Thanksgiving Day 勤労感謝の日 was established in Japan in 1948, cats everywhere say “now feed me”. 📷😅🎌
Yesterday I rode the scooter to the bank and it started really acting up, so I had the Honda shop check it. It needed an oil change and the front tire was pretty flat, but 4000 yen later it runs great. 📷🏍️
K pointed out that this is “milk” not milk. I was tricked by the kana ミルク and the English. But it clearly says 乳飲料 “milk drink”. 📷🐄
Hello! It’s “world hello day” on 11/21, but it’s also our anniversary. Surely I’m better off and the more fortunate because of her. Here’s to many more hikes together! 🥰🥳
I liked this scene, an inviting orange color to the light, the young worker my daughters’ age, maybe a part timer. Taken in Akihabara Tokyo with a Rollei film camera, 2016. 📷🥐
An anachronism holding out against the times. Ebihara Shoten building in Akihabara Tokyo, 2016. Taken with a Rollei film camera. 📷🗝️
Japan’s Tetsudo Denka Kyokai marks Nov 19 as railway electrification day. In ‘56, the Tokaido was electrified & Tokyo-Osaka took 7.5 hr by “Tsubame”, then 3 hr by “Hikari” Shinkansen in ‘64. 🚅🇯🇵📷
I liked watching people come and go on the Modi stairs and platforms at night, from the JR Totsuka station plaza area. Taken with a Rollei film camera. 📷🛍️
Today 11/18 is Doboku no Hi or Public Works day here in Japan, after how the kanji for “do boku” 土木 are built. 土 from 10 and 1, and 木 from 10 and 8. 📷🏗️
“Beagle House” Honda Wing shop in Totsuka, taken with a Rollei film camera. Reminds me I need to get my scooter’s oil changed. 📷🛵
Almost 5am and it’s rain for Totsuka. You can hear it on the shutters and I can feel it in my joints. Glad we had such fair weather yesterday for hiking. ☔️
Nihonbashi “Nara Mahoroba-kan” mascot, taken on Rollei 35S film camera. 📷🦌
Hiked Hakone’s Mt Kintoki today with the wife and D1. Perfect weather for it and the view of Fuji was spectacular, but I’m spent. 🇯🇵🗻
Colorful laundry bags, not trash. 📷🧺