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Japan 2007
I never get tired of Japan, but I think Japan is tiring of me. This was my 8th(?) visit.
The policemen to the right picked me up hitchhiking. They didn't know I was hitchhiking, actually. If they did I would have been in big trouble because I was standing in an illegal and semi-dangerous place. Luckily I saw them before they saw me (seriously guys, helmets in the car?) and I pretended to be lost. Since they couldn't find a bus stop for me to get to town, they drove me about 5km to a metro stop.
Fukuoka is the worst town to hitchhike in and out since it connects to the highway by very long expressways. It affects my decision-making as to whether I want to live there. Seriously. Otherwise it is a great, mellow city.
The first six photos below are from a samba festival in Kobe.
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Fukuoka's finest
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I forget what character he was dressed up as
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Look at all the photographers. Not a woman in the crowd.
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Call me a prude, but kids this young, it's just plain wrong
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Can Child Protective Services pick this girl up, please? Now?
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Noriko I met in Istanbul, Turkey
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Me and my new friend
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Famous author, Mitsuyo Kakuta,
I met in Colombo, Sri Lanka
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Cement slide--ouch!
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Gravel basketball court--ouch!
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Plastic curry display
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Dead street. This aspect of Japan fascinates me.
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Would a sports bar in USA ever be called Disco Pants?
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Entrance to the amazing Tokyo expressway.
No place to stand to hitchhike.
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Gas station under apartments.
Notice the pumps are overhead, too.
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Fukuoka hostel
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Manhole cover
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I forget what they are looking for
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Typical narrow buildings in the Osaka ghetto
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Must be hard to parallel park like that every day
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Shin Sekai, Osaka
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Toshifumi's purple tree
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Elaborate sushi in Yatsushiro
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Torching the sushi makes it delicious, trust me
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