There are a lot of vending machines. Pretty much everywhere, and sometimes where you least expect them, like when a blue glowing machine appears out of the fog on a deserted suburban street late at night.
Many things are packaged in a lot of plastic, but sometimes ingeniously so, like the Onegiri (rice balls) where plastic separates the dried seaweed from the rice and keeps it crisp.
Japanese people are exceptionally kind and hospitable, for example buying you snacks when you are hitchhiking in their car (as if the ride isn`t enough!)
The landscape is beautiful - mountains falling to the sea. Of course, there is a lot more wilderness in Hokkaido than when I will be going farther south. The sea, being the pacific, looks quite a bit like it does in California.
Bamboo forms a low-lying ground cover - from a distance it looks like grass but its not.
Bread is either very white or sweet. Tessa think that the Japanese got it right - bread should be sweet, not a thing you eat all the time.
I`ve been eating A LOT of fish. And just generally lots of yummy, yummy food.
That`s all for now - we`re off to Hakodate and hopefully will get to see some cherry blossoms!
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