This is not me being a Japan apologist; I know they have their own stuff going on. All I'm saying is I like walking places and not fearing that I will be killed by a reckless driver.

My hotel in Ueno is the nicest I've stayed at so far. Lovely place, this part of Tokyo. Very lowkey.

Sun coming up behind tall glass buildings with a planter and road in the foreground alongside a highway on ramp.

Shibuya Sunrise

Thinking about how much it's going to suck going back to a place where everything is so mind-bogglingly stupid and wrong after 3 weeks in a place generally motivated by good sense. I will miss this a lot.

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To any guy who goes home alone from Shibuya tonight wondering if anyone thought their fit was nice: I saw the fit bro. That shit was hard.

Watching the world fly by from the Shinkansen is mind blowing.

Tall building surrounded by trees.

River with high walls and houses and trees on all sides. Snow capped mountains in the far distance.

Fish market bustling with life. High walls and a fancy decorative ceiling.

A beautiful shrine adorned with traditional samurai era designs. Fortunes string along ropes to the side.

God bless Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. Heaven on earth. I pray I may one day return.

I missed my next connection too 😭 tough roll today

Sitting on a train platform at a station, the rails are filled with trains making short stops and moving on quickly

For the first time on my trip... I missed a train. Luckily I only have to wait 30 minutes for the next one.

A street corner pedestrian crossing with yellow tiles in a pattern around it. Straight bars indicate a walkway, rounded bumps indicate stops, corners, and curbs.

These yellow braille tiles are a huge part of Japan's signature urban look and feel. But everywhere can and should implement this. It's a necessary pedestrian accessibility feature that saves the lives of vision impaired and phone users alike. #accessibility #walkable

A metal fence with overgrown grass and cherry blossom trees with a walking path beyond it and a river with a stone retaining wall and buildings and trees on the other side.

Rectangular prisms standing at off angles in moss with projected flowers on them.

A selfie in a Japanese traffic mirror with a tree behind it.

Photo taken from atop Kyoto tower observation deck. Kyoto station close by and Osaka off in the far distance. The city of Kyoto stretches out in all directions.

Every day is a beautiful journey. Kyoto, you have my heart.

Everything they say about Kyoto online is true.
1. Over tourism is real
2. It's only in like 5 places. Everywhere else is untouched.

Bus drivers here are on another level. Fully convinced this driver could kill it in F1.

Japanese convenience stores were impressive immediately but they become even more valuable as my trip goes on and I continue to find every odd random thing I need there as well as new food items I missed on prior visits. Just amazing all around.

One of the best kind of gimmick accounts gotta be the one where they just comment their username and nothing else. Bonus points for a dumb profile pic.

In the book #lifeaftercars they highlight the significance of curb cuts as an accessibility improvement intended for disabled people but useful for everyone. Once you start observing the ways this manifests, you see it everywhere.

An elevator with a vertical floor button panel beside the door and a horizontal, wheelchair accessible panel on the side wall. Not in frame is another such horizontal panel on the opposite wall.

In my hotel elevator the handicap floor buttons are useful to all: the wheelchair accessible elevator floor buttons are useful for not having to reach over another person to input which floor you're trying to go to.

Shimmachiminami Park in Osaka, Japan. Dirt on the ground with trees surrounding the perimeter and a tall apartment building across the street.

Grass is an ecological problem in the US. Often my biggest hangup with getting rid of grass is parks/urban green spaces. In Japan, parks like this are dirt on the ground but with ample trees and bushes. Still a comfortable, usable space but with ample greenery. Much more climate resilient.

Cars in Japan are much quieter and cross intersections much more slowly.

24 hours of aura farming in Japan can really change a gamer

God grant me the strength to stop reading news headlines while on vacation

First international flight today. Nervous! But excited. Feels like horrible timing for travel though.

It finally happened. I just saw a really low resolution image and immediately assumed it was India, then Cambodia, then Nepal, then remembered it wasn't google street view.

Adding stubhub to the infinitely tall pile of services I will never use again. AI is literally making everything unusable and no one cares.

the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum i am going to the store

Meta and Google losing those lawsuits is so big. It sets such a crucial precedent for the future of the Internet. These mega corps must be shown that they have to take accountability!

There's a train that floats on a lake and people are riding it!!! FOMO aside, this reality is simply thrilling. Public transit is the key to our future.

Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin pumping $45 million to fight California’s ‘Billionaire Tax’ Sergey Brin, the billionaire co-founder of Google, has committed roughly $45 million to a group opposing the measure called Building a Better California, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Pay attention to Big Tech buying out Dems. It should be bigger news.

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This needs to end