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I took a river boat tour while in Chicago. I have many excellent photographs from that tour, but I won’t torture you with a series of them this go around. The above is the only one you get to see. Chicago was the filming location for the Batman series, including The Dark Night. I believe the above picture is of the building used for the Gotham Police Department in the filming of The Dark Night.
ラーメン = ramen (and real Japanese Ramen is nothing like the stuff you buy off the shelf in the U.S.); やみつき = being hooked on or addicted to something (although in this case I think it is also the chain name); ギョーザ = gyoza; やきめし = fried rice; karaage = fried chicken
So what are you going to order?
This was a sign board on the Hakone Loop. Notice the interesting flavors. Sure you can still get vanilla, chocolate (cocoa), and strawberry, but have you ever been able to order purple sweet potato, green soybean, bean jam, potato chips, or tiny rice cracker flavor ice cream before?
Burend is not a brand name. It is supposed to be blend as in ブレンドソフトアイスクリーム.
I took the above picture at a bathroom on the Hakone Round Course. Apparently some gaijin had misused the toilet in the past and made a mess.
When I lived in Japan in the 1980s I saw and used what we called “squatters” all the time. In fact, it was the most common public toilet at that point in time in Japan and was the only toilet I had in one of my apartments.
Fast forward to our visit in 2007. The above squatter was the only one we encountered in our entire two weeks in Japan. Squatters seem to be much rarer now. Japanese toilets are actually some of the best in the world with more gizmos and gadgets and features most people have never even dreamed of on a toilet.
When we arrived in Narita airport my family used the bathroom immediately after we got off the plane and said it was the best bathroom they’d ever seen. We experienced a few restrooms later on the trip that were even better.
Back to the above photo… The picture is quite humorous if you blow it up and look at it closely.