The Japanese have also invented an additional more interesting way of keeping warm, the kotatsu. This is a small table with a removable top. Under the table is a small heater that plugs into the wall via a power cord. When cold weather rolls around, you can put a special blanket underneath the tabletop. Then you can turn on the heater, stick your legs under the table and feel all your concerns about hypothermia melt away. Couple this with a plug-in heated floor rug and another small plug in heater, and everything should be groovy when the real frost hits... I hope.
A nice looking young man from Google Image Search warms his bones under a kotatsu.
A nice looking young man from Google Image Search warms his bones under a kotatsu.
Sorry that I haven't posted anything in a while, I guess the daily grind is getting to me a bit. Luckily I still had time to snap some more random pics from around Japan. Enjoy.
Kid's Beer
Yep, it's exactly what it sounds like. "Beer" marketed to kids. Remember those candy cigarettes you used to buy as a kid? Well Japan saw those and raised you a cold, frosty beer. Except this actually has pictures of kids on it, so there's not even any plausibly deniable Joe Camel-esqe concealment of this company's motives. Of course the "beer" is non-alcoholic, but look, it foams like real beer and everything! Actually I looked it up it says the original company that sold this just called it kid's beer, but it didn't look or taste anything like the real stuff. Then it sold so well on name alone that a giant corporation bought it and changed it to look, act, and taste just like the real thing. Wow Japan, wow.
Old School Game Cartridges at a Designer Clothing Store in Osaka
Yep, it's exactly what it sounds like. "Beer" marketed to kids. Remember those candy cigarettes you used to buy as a kid? Well Japan saw those and raised you a cold, frosty beer. Except this actually has pictures of kids on it, so there's not even any plausibly deniable Joe Camel-esqe concealment of this company's motives. Of course the "beer" is non-alcoholic, but look, it foams like real beer and everything! Actually I looked it up it says the original company that sold this just called it kid's beer, but it didn't look or taste anything like the real stuff. Then it sold so well on name alone that a giant corporation bought it and changed it to look, act, and taste just like the real thing. Wow Japan, wow.
Old School Game Cartridges at a Designer Clothing Store in Osaka
Basically none of the effin' clothes fit me in this country, so when my friends go shopping I look at the store decorations. This one happened to have awesome old video games. Oh yeah and the one in the nintendo at the time was "The Goonies Official Game", still playable. Awesome.Steez Kick ass Bastarding
No clue. On the DJ booth at a random Fukui bar.City Hotel New Urban Time and Space
This was the hotel we stayed at in Tokyo the second time around. Actually it kind of makes sense once you've been to Tokyo.
