I’ve set up MT4i, which lets me post to the blog from my phone. Testing it out with this post. The world really is convenient now.

Returning from Obon via the JR Chuo Line: Kasugai to Kamata in 8 hours through mountain scenery completely unlike the Tokaido — all on a Seishun 18 ticket.

Obon trip from Tokyo to Aichi by local trains: dawn departure from Kamata, six and a half hours, ¥3,250 — basically selling four hours of my morning for the ¥6,000 Shinkansen difference.

Doyo no Ushi eel day, single-living edition: one eel equals one serving. Plus the shocking discovery that the supermarket one station over sells the same eel for ¥600 less.