Random Japan #49 :: You Must Choose Wisely
Hello beautiful and amazing people!—and welcome to another edition of your favorite look at the ordinary, everyday, and random aspects of life in Japan: Random Japan.
Today, we have a child conqueror, a few difficult decisions, and team sakura! Go team go!
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Random Japan
The darker green tea (second from the left, top row) is my favorite, but the coffee isn’t half bad—at least the black ones aren’t half bad; the rest are more sugar than coffee and are far too sweet (IMHO†). Tea or coffee… the eternal choice in Japan. You must choose, choose wisely.
Speaking of choosing wisely, you better make sure to trash that pet bottle or can in the correct slot! I don’t know why there are separate holes for can/bottles and pet bottles—they go to the same trash bag. The real dirty little secret of these things is that people use them for all trash. Japan doesn’t have many trash cans in public. I’m still not quite sure why this is, although I have been given many many many different reasons over the years. At any rate, one of the consequences of this decision is that many people just throw their trash in these pet bottle/can bins and make life a little harder for the recycle guy who then has to sort the trash out of the bag.
The sakura train! Now with extra sakura.
This little guy is Takechiyo (tah-keh-chee-yoh), which is what Ieyasu’s name was when he was just a lad. Ieyasu is one of the biggest names in Japanese history. He would go on to conquer Japan in 1600 and start the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1603 that would go on to rule the country until 1868. He was born in Okazaki so there are statues of him and references to him pretty much all over the city.
Footnotes
†: Wait—is that In my humble opinion or In my honest opinion? An answer.
That’s all folks. Another set of photos come and gone. Did you enjoy any of them today? Let me know in the comments. If fortune truly favors the foolish, I shall return tomorrow to bring you another Random Japan. See you then.
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Cool blog here!!! Thanks for the resteem, now it's my turn to take a look at your post!
Those thrash cans drive me nuts. There has to be a city or a station somewhere were they are used as intended, with a different bag attached to each hole. I have yet to find one though.