The Tokyo portion of our trip is all about observing economic behavior, which gives us license to explore neighborhoods and watch people. It's really pretty interesting, although the rain on Sunday kept people indoors and the crowds muted. I think it has been best to wait on posting anything about Tokyo until we completed our time here: to process it at any given moment is a bit overwhelming. On the long train ride to Hokkaido, we will start to really assess. Still, here's something:
Red bean soup. Mochi. Dried, candied beans. Sweetened rice crackers. Pumpkin with Red beans. Many sweets here are not too sweet. Supposedly, the Japanese don't have much of a sweet tooth. Certainly, we have generally found that dessert isn't part of restaurant menus, unless you go to a dessert cafe. But if you put the dessert in the form of a fad, the Japanese seem to line up. Below, Steve poses with one of about 15 employees of an ice cream shop that sold only single scoops of vanilla ice cream covered in your choice of caramel, chocolate, or mango hot sauce. The theme of the place was pink, and walls looked like they were covered in Pepto Bismol, which would be appropriate because we got stomach aches afterward. Further below is a recent American "classic", but if you can't tell, the line in front of the Krispy Kreme is out the door and snaking back and forth at the Shinjuku branch of the establishment.
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