Adventure now ended, some high points:

Steampunk clock Tokyo

Fine dinners at ryokans, breakfast not so much. Variety of experiences, very large variety.

Packaging and wrapping….unending, wasteful, generally elegant

Clean bathrooms almost everywhere but cold water and seldom soap

Mediocre pastries

Excellent homemade bread and deserts in kii mountain cafe, Saimensan music

Kindness of strangers, especially at rain stop, coffee and frozen persimmons

Kureman market Osaka

Okonomaki

Namba and unlimited shopping as well as dotonbori street

Nara: Isuien garden, persimmon scramble

Non-ending hard forested mountain passes without ridges

Shrines at Hongu, Shingu and Nachi. All grand shrines

Japanese baths

Buddhist hall of a thousand dieties

Not much in the way of wildlife

Some uncomfortable ryokans with convenient facilities

Good walking group on nakasendo

Post towns

Fall foliage

Chrysanthemums, displayed at Shinjuku national garden

Cleaning of Shinkansen train

Impossible navigation at Shiodome amoeba

Water taxi and low bridges

Kaiseki dinner at onsen

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