When I was taking the photos in the previous post, I found this amusing sign. Apparently my area has a problem with dogs pulling down the pants of young boys. Presumably he wanted the baseball for himself.
Luckily, I’m yet to run into one of these dogs.
As you might remember, my apartment in Sanda had a rice field beside it. My apartment here in Toyohashi has a pond across the road. I took these photos a while ago, I think I was bored one day and just wandering around taking photos of things.
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I’ve finally done it, I’ve eaten Natto.
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So my phone can take Panorama photos, and the way it does it is really cool. It’s like recording a video, and I turn in a slow circle trying to keep a horizontal line in the middle of the screen. Then through some digital trickery, it stitches it together into a pretty good panorama, albeit at a rather low resolution. Three examples if you click on the link.
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So I’ve posted about quite a few Kit-Kats, but there’s one in particular that I’ve been saving, for this is the best Kit-Kat ever. It beats the pants off every other Kit-Kat, yes, even the White Chocolate Kit-Kat Chunky. Intrigued? You should be.
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I might have mentioned it before, but back in Sanda there was a bakery I used to visit. I could never work it out, but somehow by buying just two items, I ended up with four bags. It turns out bakery’s aren’t the only places in Japan who have an obsession with packaging.
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Just a giant monkey statue on a roof. Nothing out of the ordinary about that at all. No, I don’t know why it’s there, how it got there, or what it intends to do now that it’s there.
I have often talked about how often Japan comes out with new Fanta drinks, and I always buy them intending to post here. But somehow I never get around to it. So this is a big post of all the Fanta flavors I’ve found so far in Japan.
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