First Day of Spring Break! Trying to be happy (amidst the sorrows of this shitty year so far...)

Cherry blossoms on two trees popping early... the rest will pop soon!

Special auto-ethnographic bonus: a (renewal) haircut, yaki niku and new friends...

Recent hisashiburi yaki niku in Tsuruhashi

Crazy Shopping in Tsuruhashi

Art at a parking lot in Tsuruhashi

Golden Week I: 鶴橋

There was lots of walking to be done during the Golden Week holidays. Warm, sunny weather made for pleasant strolls and photographic adventures. The first stop was Tsuruhashi, the center of Korean and Japanese-Korean culture in Osaka.