In Japan, they often use these life-sized plastic highway worker effigies to direct motorists around road crews where a simple light would suffice. I always feel like abducting these insane…

Parking area in Iga, infamous ninja country. FYI, they don’t sell real ninja weapons in the gift shop.

Just me, or is it a bit tacky?

I may have blogged about this sign in front of a Amemura love hotel before, but I can’t be bothered to check if it was on the old Yapeus site…

This is the shop that caused the Great Eggtart Craze of 2002, located between Nanpabashi and Midosuji. We bought an 8-pack for 15 bucks with the intention of taking them…

I looked around the building’s parking garage for a fleet of lowered Impalas – no luck.

Yoda curling around a rain gutter pipe outside the vet’s office.

Nam and Merin in the rain. That dot up on the hill is Kochi Castle.

We happened upon a dance exhibition in the shotengai…

I have no idea what this store is… I could have read the signs on the door, but it just felt better to keep it a mystery. Maybe there’s a…

I’m convinced that railing on a ferry exists mainly because the water is so damn inviting on a hot summer day.

It was more impressive to the naked eye.