I’m not saying that Japan is unduly haunted by the history of aerial bombing that took place in World War II, but in taking the Osaka Train Station escalator down from street level to the subway kingdom of avenue wide tunnels jammed with shopping outlets and eateries I can’t help thinking that if I were…
Month: March 2025
A dazed breakfast
Post by Ella Time: We are 15 hours ahead of New Mexico. Who knows what time our bodies think it is. Breakfast: our hotel offers a choice of Japanese style breakfast and western style breakfast. We went Japanese of course. Picture below. Tomorrow maybe I’ll remember to take the tops off before taking the picture. Like…
Jet Lag Jackhammer
Post by Grubb Whoa…we left LAX Monday mid-afternoon and, after a twelve-hour flight, landed in Osaka in the early evening on the next day. My body was prepared for an early morning stretch and now it was dazedly doing nighttime maneuvers negotiating a very large airport terminal where a very large crowd was lined up for…
Silently in Japan
Post by Ella. Silence? That’s what we hear. Hmmm. We will get to that. Japan is a place full of natural beauty, shrines (Shinto) and temples (Buddhist), and superb public transportation. There will be crowds to navigate – especially the big cities like Osaka and Tokyo. Mountains, active volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis (hoping we don’t have…