It’s day one, and you’re actually a bit sick of cherry blossoms…

But the cherry trees are all around the place where you meet when the next earthquake comes…

You are in Japan when you mistook this for a place that sold building blocks and fence palings

There are signs to tell you when the queue waiting time for an elevator is down to 30 minutes…..

Then after 15 minutes of progression you get to the next sign……

Where the streets are too small for cars

And there are lots of narrow streets

So the policemen have to get around on girl’s bikes,

Even though commuters get bullet trains

Where there are still women who still put on their kimono for a Sunday outing….

and there is still a sense of aesthetics surrounding a simple cup of tea

But the thing that keeps you awake at night is trying to calculate how many bloody vending machines there must be in Japan

You might have to help me here Scotty

 

Farley C-S of the Orient