Day: April 13, 2025

Not like back home. 7/11s in Japan offer all kinds of cheap, prepared food of pretty good quality. Originally owned by the same company as the US brand, 7/11 here is now fully Japanese owned.

Meant to post these earlier. We have left the island of Kyushu and are now back on the “mainland”.

We spent the afternoon wandering the Peace Memorial Park and Museum in Hiroshima.  Full of somber people. The place had that feel.  The unimaginable had happened here. I was asked to sign a petition against nuclear weapons. Perfect place to gather signatures. Though who they are petitioning is unclear. The museum was claustrophobically crowded and dimly lit…

We both somehow got our timing off this morning and checked out of our Fukuoka apartment an hour earlier than planned. What to do? Oh look…as we rolled our luggage by a big Starbucks next to the station. Let’s set a spell, have some free WiFi with coffee. I branched out and ordered a matcha…

“Knock, knock.”  “Who’s there?”  “Adam.”  “Adam who?”  “Atom Bomb.”  I remember I was around four or five when my mother told me this joke.  Later, when I was growing up in Los Alamos, my friends used to kid around about living in a city of bomb makers.  But Oppenheimer and the scientists who built the atomic bomb left a weird legacy of…

We’ve moved on to Hiroshima. Here are some last photos of Fukuoka.