いつか / itsuka, someday
Japan / still on the list, known through games first
DREAMING
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Still on the list.
ScotlandCities
- Tokyo Where half the Cartridge wing was made.
- Kyoto Temples, gardens, and the slow trains between them.
The table
- Ramen The real, regional, argued-about kind, a different bowl in every city.
- Okonomiyaki The savoury pancake you cook at your own table; Osaka's, ideally.
- Convenience-store everything I'm reliably told the konbini is a whole cuisine. I intend to verify this.
- Matcha, done seriously Whisked, bitter, and treated with a ceremony the West saves for wine.
Saved pins
- teamLab digital art ↗ Rooms you walk into and become part of; top of the someday-list.
- Konami, Tokyo Not a tour, a pilgrimage. I owe them a Contra continue or thirty.
- A Shibuya used-record shop Lose a whole afternoon in the crates; leave heavier than I arrived.
What I would do
- 01 Tokyo, arcades and record shops Pay respects to Konami; lose a day in Shibuya's used vinyl.
- 02 Kyoto, temples and gardens Walk the places every game keeps lovingly rebuilding.
- 03 A fūrin, carried home The glass chime this page rings, bought, wrapped, hung.
My note
I have not been to Japan yet. Most of what first pulled me towards it came through games. Konami made Contra and CyberConnect2 made the Ultimate Ninja Storm series, so two shelves in the next room already point this way.
The door is based on a shōji screen and the chime is a glass fūrin. Everything below is a list for a future trip. I expect the real place to correct plenty of it.