Kin’en Style is a site that lets you search for smoke-free restaurants. There’s an English section up as well, although its list contains zero establishments, making it somewhat less useful than the Japanese version. (Time for the obligatory plug for Enchanté, my in-laws’ restaurant in Yotsuya San-chome. Lunch hours are smoke-free there as well.) (Via [...]
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Subways of the world
Things I rode Originally uploaded by Durf There’s an interesting page that shows the subway networks of the world’s major cities, all at the same scale. These are the ones I’ve been on. Tokyo’s network is overwhelmingly packed with people and convenient, so it has a sprawling feel, but compare it to BART and you [...]
Getting clean
Our washing machine was getting on in years, and tended to leave bits of black mold stuck to our clothes after a wash. Not good, especially with a baby in the house and load after load of baby-related things going through the cycle each day. So we went to the neighborhood Laox last weekend and [...]
Climbing Shasta
An interesting read: In 1878 a man climbed Mt. Shasta and stayed at the summit for nine days. An early experiment in high altitude acclimatization. (Of course there were Tibetans living at higher altitudes than that, no doubt, but you know.) B. A. Colonna of the US Coast and Geodetic Survey writes: On the 24th [...]
Back home
Made it in one piece! It’s another hot night in Tokyo, but I took my sweet time getting back to my apartment with all the windows closed (it might rain, you see) and no air conditioner running (that uses electricity that this country’s quake-addled nuke plants can’t provide, you see). I stopped by Sugitamaya, this [...]
