I’ve seen a lot of strange things on Japanese trains these past five years. Drunks passed out on the benches, old women (and I do mean old) dressed in school girl uniforms, ‘train parties’ where people spend hours riding around while drinking, just to name a few. But this evening as I rode home on [...]
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Think about your workplace. The desks, the doors, the people, picture it all in your mind. Now imagine it in the morning, the quite murmur of voices as everyone files in still groggy from the commute. The day begins and the murmur turns into a steady drone punctuated by the occasional phone call and door [...] Can you find the treasure? Living here in Japan you learn to make do without a lot of foods you took for granted back home; hamburgers, Mexican food, pizza that doesn’t have corn on it…being a hardy ex-pat you learn to replace them with more available alternatives. However, every once in a while you stumble [...] ‘Amanokuchi-whatsa,’ the word stumbled out of my mouth like a handful of scrabble letters. ‘What the heck is that?’ ‘Kochidaniamadaji. It’s a temple up in the mountains past Sanzenin. Trust me Mike, you gotta go there,’ Joe assured me. I looked at him a bit incredulously, ‘Go there? How [...] |
 
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