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What I really like is the Suica app that lets you tap your phone as a transit pass (for buses and subways) vs carrying a transit card. It works across multiple cities and can be refilled on the fly.

Ok. Excellent dinner at the Gora Brewery. Great food and a really nice DIPA. Nice design with rock garden behind the kitchen. First euro style efficient windows I’ve seen (centre mount w alu sills 🤓). And! A hot spring fed foot bath between the brewery and cafe.

Stars competing with the Tokyo Glow

Runaway truck ramp. Can’t help but imagine a Dukes of Hazzard scene with a car leaping over the train.

Today we’re walking the Tokaido road, a stone path laid down in the 1600s to connect Kyoto and Tokyo (Edo)

Tea and a snack at the thatched timber Amasake Tea House.

Prettier than my usual takeout lunch

🗻Fuji from the Shinkansen 🚄

Fuji at 300kph

Landed at our cute little loft at the end of an alley in Kyoto

Very hot today so the double papered shoji screens are keeping the place cool. The cavity between the screen and window is much hotter.

It’s 30c Feet in the water time

Nice 2 sided benches

Every city should have this

And it’s lovely at night. Soft lighting, adjacent homes and shops and a bit of greenery (that feels rare at this scale)

Trying to imagine how to re-create this in Vancouver

West orientation, on a hill overlooking the city. Great spot for catching evening light (for the last 1200 years or so) and a boat load of tourists (more recently) Something to be said for UNESCO sites. Prayer bell reverberated at many levels.

Didn’t previously realize the connection between Pikachu and the sacred lightning symbol

Another nice stroll on a 30c day… the philosophers walk

The Face House A nice bit of weirdness to balance the Serene/subdued/historical city.

We’re on rented e-bikes today. It’s a bit more challenging to navigate with more bike-prohibited zones, requirements to park in designated areas and no Google Maps support for bikes. Still a nice little experience but highlights how I depend on Google

Shade magnet Aka Shadows are good sometimes

Back here again. Can’t get enough of this little greenway.