So I got back from Japan back on October 27th–the Saturday before Halloween. As is customary these days, the trials and tribulations of the “real world” kept me from posting about my experiences for a while. Aunt Nancy says it’s not a bad thing for life to keep you from blogging, and (seeing that she works in the publishing industry) I am glad that I think she’s right.

Japan, though, was incredible. Totally worth it. Big thanks to Genevieve for letting me crash on the futon while I was in Osaka, and for lending me Lonely Planet Japan (without which I’d have spent two weeks lost on the train).

I was going to expound upon the mysteries and wonders and strangeness and haunting familiarity of everything in Japan, but a couple days ago, Charles Stross (a writer whom I admire deeply) elaborated it very fittingly in his blog. You should probably read that, too. So I’ll stick to covering the highlights of my own trip and encourage the curious to trawl my Flickr photos.

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