Giles and Alex hit Japan - June 2022

[Alex]

JAL plane food is a little better than British Airways….

[Alex]

First real meal was ざる蕎麦

When in Japan always drink Chūhai

[Alex]

Out for dinner with Kenta and Hiroumi in Osaka

[Alex]

Kyoto market photo dump

Check out the cans of soda/beer behind the oysters for scale

Baby octopus snacks

Pickled everything

[Alex]

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Nice cheap butcher. Prices are per 100g in JP¥ - works out to like $300 per lb of meat

Maybe 200 varieties of tea in one of many tea shops

Whoops…

[Alex]

Calligraphy shop

Then over to a tea cafe. The stages of macha whisk production

Giles' gyokuru with a sweet that was meant to taste like 'the sound of falling rain'

My matcha tea with a sweet that was meant to remind me of a firefly

[Alex]

Oh shit, there are Nazis in Japan… oh wait.

Lunch at a tonkatsu place. I forgot to get a photo of the main event, but once you order you get a bowl of sesame seeds and a pestle and mortar so you can start building your own sauce.

[Alex]

Evidently some men round here can get a bit gropey on the rush hour trains…

jet lag got me good this morning. Woke up at about 3.30 and couldnt sleep, so I headed down to the gym and then grabbed one of many vending machine coffees.

[Alex]

Will come back and caption these later but as you can see from the time stamps, it's taken nearly 30mins to just upload these. Breakfast time…

[Oaktavia]

Wow Japan looks so cool…I would want to buy everything.

[Matt]

I love these photo dumps.  Keep them coming.

[Kasi]

Nice photos…

Matt don’t get hungry

[sabergirl]

Someday I will get to travel to Japan. In the meantime, thank you for all the amazing pics.

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[Matt]

I’m always hungry. 

[Giles]

Unfortunate name…..

[Giles]

@Alex:

My matcha tea with a sweet that was meant to remind me of a firefly

It reminded me of an eyeball…..

[Paul9221]

Love all of these pictures!  Great picture of you two together up top.

Keep them coming, and enjoy your time!