Things I Will Miss About Japan

[rachelmanija]

1. Hot canned coffee. Especially Suntory Boss latte (The Boss of Them All Since 1994.)

2. Vending machines providing stuff I actually want.

3. Convenience stores selling quite good food. Why can't we have Japan's 7-11 rather than our own purveyor of revolting foods?

4. Onigiri in convenience stores. Bentos in convenience stores. Desserts I enjoy eating in convenience stores.

5. Trains.

6. Subways.

7. Department stores. Especially, department store basements.

Things Cari Will Miss:

1. Calbee green pea sticks.

2. Kotatsu. (Tables with a blanket draped over and a heat source. You stick your feet under it.) When we were at Koya-san, she practically moved into ours.)

Things I Will Not Miss.

1. Public bathrooms in which the "privacy wall" totally fails to conceal men peeing. Yecch.

2. Missing my kitties.

3. Very hard futons.

4. Faux-roni, faux-rice, and faux-pebble pillows.

It is our last day. We will miss the sakura by two days. Alas.

Comments

[larryhammer]

I suspect that if I lived in Japan through a winter, I would become a kotatsu person.

(My favorite episode of Kamichu! is the one where the eponymous middle-school goddess spends the entire episode ensconced under the kotatsu. This strikes me as a very sensible way to spend winter vacation.)

---L.