From last Friday, a visit to Fushimi Inari Taisha. The shrine with at least a thousand orange 鳥居 (torii) I usually don’t post individually about sightseeing visits since they get included in my weekly videos, but I’ve been so looking forward to seeing this place in person, that I thought it deserved its own post Plus it was really pretty, even in the rain
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From last Friday, a visit to Fushimi Inari Taisha. The shrine with at least a thousand orange 鳥居 (torii) I usually don’t post individually about sightseeing visits since they get included in my weekly videos, but I’ve been so looking forward to seeing this place in person, that I thought it deserved its own post Plus it was really pretty, even in the rain
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From last Friday, a visit to Fushimi Inari Taisha. The shrine with at least a thousand orange 鳥居 (torii) I usually don’t post individually about sightseeing visits since they get included in my weekly videos, but I’ve been so looking forward to seeing this place in person, that I thought it deserved its own post Plus it was really pretty, even in the rain
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From last Friday, a visit to Fushimi Inari Taisha. The shrine with at least a thousand orange 鳥居 (torii) I usually don’t post individually about sightseeing visits since they get included in my weekly videos, but I’ve been so looking forward to seeing this place in person, that I thought it deserved its own post Plus it was really pretty, even in the rain
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From last Friday, a visit to Fushimi Inari Taisha. The shrine with at least a thousand orange 鳥居 (torii) I usually don’t post individually about sightseeing visits since they get included in my weekly videos, but I’ve been so looking forward to seeing this place in person, that I thought it deserved its own post Plus it was really pretty, even in the rain
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From last Friday, a visit to Fushimi Inari Taisha. The shrine with at least a thousand orange 鳥居 (torii) I usually don’t post individually about sightseeing visits since they get included in my weekly videos, but I’ve been so looking forward to seeing this place in person, that I thought it deserved its own post Plus it was really pretty, even in the rain
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From last Friday, a visit to Fushimi Inari Taisha. The shrine with at least a thousand orange 鳥居 (torii)

I usually don’t post individually about sightseeing visits since they get included in my weekly videos, but I’ve been so looking forward to seeing this place in person, that I thought it deserved its own post

Plus it was really pretty, even in the rain

purikura (プリクラ): Japanese photobooth with a green screen that auto-gorgeousifies you (by enlarging your eyes, and applying blush and lipstick, of course!) and with lots of other modes of edit and customization During golden weekend shenanigans in Kyushu, this happened. These booth things are in all the arcades Note also: the wonderful English captions
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purikura (プリクラ): Japanese photobooth with a green screen that auto-gorgeousifies you (by enlarging your eyes, and applying blush and lipstick, of course!) and with lots of other modes of edit and customization

During golden weekend shenanigans in Kyushu, this happened. These booth things are in all the arcades

Note also: the wonderful English captions

Typical host family interaction at dinner (in Japanese)

  • Host mom: (sentence I can understand)
  • Host dad: (sentence/question I can understand)
  • Far more competent other host student: (response I can understand)
  • Me: (nodding, humming agreement)
  • Host mom: (to me) jhgfsetuikjlhiglkjbknk-ka?
  • Me: Eh? Ummmmmm...
  • This has been another episode of Alex's Adventures in Competency in Japan

I really think that there’s a negative correlation

between abundance of trash cans and cleanliness in this country.

For instance

Town 1: Zeze, Otsu-shi 

Cleanliness: 8/10. once I saw a woman picking up paper waste off her front porch with chopsticks

Trash can availability: 0.5/10. The only one I know of is at the train station

Town 2: Hakata station area, Fukuoka-shi

Cleanliness: 5.5/10. Cleanish most places but definitely more litter and graffiti here

Trash can availability: 3/10. More available, still kinda sparse though