Hugh @hugh@ausglam.space

We arrived in Tokyo to what feels almost like summer (it’s 6 celsius).

“In 2016, JR Central reported that the Shinkansen's average delay from schedule per train was 24 seconds. This includes delays due to uncontrollable causes, such as natural disasters. The record, in 1997, was 18 seconds.”

haha holy crap

we’re averaging around 220-260kmh in case you were wondering.

Reading this glorious article on investing in public transport and killing car culture, whilst travelling on a super high speed, extremely clean and comfortable Japanese train: https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-236/feature-the-great-acceleration/

@NicholasLaney @virtualwolf it’s to eliminate the sonic boom when they come out of tunnels at 300kmh

Tokyo here we come!

We found the Sapporo Coop the other day. http://www.coop-sapporo.or.jp/eng/about/message.html

Reading a little more about them it now makes sense why this is the only place we’ve shopped where they didn’t automatically give us a plastic bag.

Being in Japan, it still has heated velvet seats, luggage racks, and announcements in English.

Our entire local train to the Shinkansen station is one carriage. 🚞

@cosmochemistry @virtualwolf sound advice tbh

Get To Fulltext Ourselves, Not GetFTR.

https://blog.openaccessbutton.org/get-to-fulltext-ourselves-not-getftr-e952e798564b

@bestthingsbot I did nothing. And then rested afterwards.

@saera 😭

This is looking a bit better.

@saera 😍 what day?

@ocertat I do this mostly because I have a terrible memory