Sorting through holiday pictures, found this one. Little work trucks in big Kyoto intersection.
Monthly Archives: May 2006
Japan Number One Day
A light drizzle all day. In fact, there’s been a light drizzle everyday but one since we’ve been here. On that day, all the balconies of all the apartments fluttered with clothing hung out to dry. They don’t like dryer-dried laundry here. 10:00 am: Tokyo Central Market. We bought souvenirs. My friend bought a...
“Sumimasen”
When you’re at the famous temple in Kyoto* — the one carved into the edge of a forest that clings like a low cloud of green to the mountains forming the city’s western border — and you hear a child, one of the thousands of school-children all dressed in their sharp school uniforms who...
Travel Tips From Tokyo
A few things to note: 1) Tokyo smells like North Carolina. Everybody smokes. 2) Pedestrian traffic flows on the left, just like street traffic. 3) Cyclists who ride on the sidewalks expect pedestrians, even those from distant lands, to understand item #2. 4) On escalators, standers stand on the left, walkers walk on the...