Notes, walks, things I want to remember. Sometimes about Osaka. Sometimes about wherever I ended up.
A wet afternoon in Osaka is not a lost afternoon. The covered arcades go on for kilometres, the kissaten get romantic, a...
They're not secret. They're just not in the guidebook. A tiny shrine between two vending machines. A shotengai that smel...
Forget hotel buffets. The best breakfast in Osaka happens before 8am, in places with no English menu and plastic food di...
Forget the "best neighborhood" lists. Where you stay in Osaka depends on whether you want to walk home at midnight, whet...
Most travelers do Nara wrong. They show up at 11am, fight the bus queue, take a photo with a deer that has seen a thousa...
Kyobashi at 7pm is the loudest part of Osaka almost nobody writes about. Six standing bars under the tracks, a man named...