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[moominmolly]

1. Frozen my ass off on top of an active volcano, in the snow:




2. Wondered what the hell a golden turnip was doing balancing off the Asahi beer building:



3. Found a souvenir thingy with my name on it in hiragana! I could never find them when I was a kid, despite having a reasonably common name:



4. Drunk Mucha-themed coffees out of a vending machine:



5. Played House of the Dead III in its native environment, a shiny Japanese arcade:



6. Wondered whether all young Japanese schoolgirls have magical powers, because they sure do look it:



7. Eaten sushi off a conveyor belt (okay, I'm sure dozens of you have done this -- I even did it in Amsterdam -- but it was still SO COOL):





8. Seen a little slice of New Orleans inexplicably lodged in Kyoto Station (I love seeing non-English words I know spelled out in katakana):



9. ...


you just KNOW that font would have crosses through the Os if it were in this alphabet.

10. Marveled at how late-evening light can make even deer shit look beautiful:




I think that this list might be hard for me to make if I weren't in Japan right now. I can think of a whole host of things I've done that not many of you have done, but in general, I prefer to share weird and interesting things with partners and friends, so a lot of you have been there for the good stuff. :) Or, at least, the list I would make might consist entirely of dull things and stuff I did before the age of 18.

Comments

[obra.livejournal.com]

WTF? The Cafe Du Monde is also a Mister Donut? I don't think that was true when I was in Kyoto. Do they have beignets yet?

Also, that's a turnip? I thought it looked more like golden sperm.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

They do have beignets!

The Mister Donut is a separate shop, just to the right of the Cafe du Monde. I didn't have a beignet, I had a tofu donut at Mister Donut (surprisingly good).

It's not a turnip. It's apparently a re-interpretation of beer foam, in the form of inscrutable slightly-ugly art. I just thought it looked somewhere between a turd and a root vegetable.

[dbang.livejournal.com]

The Cafe Du Monde is also a Mister Donut? I don't think that was true when I was in Kyoto.

Wasn't true when I was in New Orleans, either. *shudder*

[dolohov.livejournal.com]

I don't recall the Kyoto-Eki Mr. Donut, but they do double up in other places. It's not inconceivable. (In fact, there does seem to be photographic evidence ;)