A colleague tipped me off that JR routes over 601 km qualify for a round-trip discount. Tokyo → Nagoya → Nishi-Akashi → Tokyo: how I saved ¥6,500 with two JR rules and Express Reservation.

Two years after graduating, I discovered my alma mater has its own community board — ‘Meijo Channel’ — with lab-level intel I could have really used as a student.

Cycling trip no. 2 under a cloudless sky: 38 km to Minato Mirai and Chinatown, photos of Landmark Tower and the Red Brick Warehouse, nikuman for the road.