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[4am-sorrow]

🖤🖤🖤🖤Do you even fucking care about me at all🖤🖤🖤🖤

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Time to start heading back to the yukata place.  

According to Tomo, the big tower in the first pic is part of the oldest amusement park in...Tokyo?  Or maybe it was Japan?  

Anyway, feast your eyes on the cool shops and wall murals!  

Oh yeah, and that’s a real owl, btw.  

And the shrine in pic 7 is where people go to honor babies who have died.  :(

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Lottery #4. Didn’t win...everyone wasn’t kidding when they said winning is rare!

[psyentifically-minded]

Mushrooms which contain the basis for spore-based reproduction which later developed into sexual reproduction (hence the mushroom shaped phallus of most animals) and having stems and flesh membranes are interconnected via their root networks known as mycelium. The mushroom is a likely candidate for the development of the brain control centre of later developing animals and their nervous systems mimicing the design of mycelium root networks. Parasitic fungi such as Cordyceps show the mushrooms capabilities to hijack the central nervous system of other animals through compatible biological hardware, that is to say the mushroom is able to graft itself onto the hosts nervous system and control it because there is a common ancestry between the mushrooms roots and the animals nervous system, thus by sporing into jellyfish and flatworms parasitically or symbiotically the mushroom was able to give itself a protective casing or body with which to house itself as the controlling brain. Likewise our modern brains contain tryptamine substances which are found in psychedelic mushrooms enabling them to interact in strange mystical ways with our own consciousness and our brains also have photosynthetic pineal glands relating to this plant-based origin. The largest organism on the Earth is a gigantic mushroom likely acting as a brain for many facets of the planets ecosystem, for example mushrooms share information across their Mycelium root networks and are capable of forcing rainfall by seeding clouds with their spores. Mushroom spores can also survive the vacuum of space and may travel panspermically from planet to planet.

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The night is starting to wind now.  I finally managed to get some hot sake, which I shared with Mihiro and Hana.

Oh!  I finally got around to asking everyone if they’re okay with me dropping all honorifics.  And they all said yes!  Yay!

If you follow the restaurant on Instagram and show them, you get free ice cream!  Omnomnomnom.

And don’t Yuka and Yugo look so cozy in that last pic?  You know...a couple of weeks ago, they DID go all the way to the beach together...  Don’t worry, for once in my life, I swear I’m not going to meddle.

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Some screenshots from the video in case you don’t want to watch it.

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They’ve got a little area for you to take off your shoes and switch to slippers (pic 1).  As you can see, Ken-chan collapsed onto his bed and passed out as soon as we got here (pic 2).  Tomo-san apologized for the slightly smaller size of my bed (pic 3), but I told her it’s all good.  I mean, it’s not like I’m a giant or anything.  As long as I have enough room to sleep on my stomach and my feet aren’t hanging off the edge, I’m good to go!

While Ken-chan’s taking his little nap, Tomo-san and I are going through the various paperwork throughout the room for tourists to decide where we want to go next (pics 4-5).  I don’t know about you, but some of the items that the hotel lists as available for borrowing don’t really sound like something I’d want to borrow knowing some stranger used them (pic 6).  I mean, nail clippers?  Lol.

The bathroom and shower are a good size, too (pic 7).  You can tell that the bathroom was designed with both westerners and Japanese in mind.  In some of the older places I’ve stayed at in Hokkaido, the showerhead does not go over the bathtub, which means you have to shower outside the bathtub the same way you would if you take a Japanese-style shower with the chair and everything.  Tomo-san and Ken-chan’s bathroom is the same way, but there’s plenty of space for both kinds of showers, so it’s all good.  

As you can see from the bathroom toiletries (pics 8-9), there’s exactly three of everything.  For anyone who hasn’t been to Japan, when you stay at a hotel you pay for the number of people in the room.  It’s not like in America, where you pay a flat rate for the room (like, when you get a double at a hotel, you pay the same rate whether it’s just you staying there or there are three other people with you).  In Japan, you have to tell them ahead of time how many people there will be.  The nice thing about that, though, is that they make sure there’s enough of everything provided in the room for each person.

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Finally, food! It took us a while to find a restaurant, though, because the first place we went to was too packed and wouldn’t take a group our size. While we walked around looking for a different ramen restaurant, we passed by a Round 1. I didn’t know they were in Japan.

The ramen was good, but I was feeling too out of it to eat very much of it. I would’ve liked to take it home, but the place didn’t do takeout. 😢 Poor ramen.