Happy Marine Day!! This is my last long weekend in Japan! :o My time here is really coming down to the wire. I bought my ticket home today; I only have about six weeks left in Japan!
To celebrate, once again I did pretty much nothing ;) On Saturday I biked to the lab, but I had to abandon my bicycle there because there was a torrential downpour. I've really ridden my bike into the ground. It's second hand, and it was already pretty old when I got it, but on Saturday I had to take off the chain cover, which was so mangled that it either caught my foot or else scraped on the chain. The gears are stuck and now only one of them works (luckily a pretty normal middle gear that works well enough for everything). But despite its problems, my bike survived a ride home on Sunday, and I think it will last me until I leave.
On Sunday I wandered around downtown (looking in vain for a Starbucks that I have been to several times, but which seems to have vanished off the face of the earth..), and I took a few pictures of things that I'm going to miss seeing. One thing is the giant Santa inexplicably on a building in the nightlife district.
The other is this sign on the subway doors. I think this is an ad campaign encouraging people to eat local Hokkaido food, but this one is one of my favourites (I need to get a picture of the one with a terrifying sentient rice plant).
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