Were there any inspirational take aways that you got from soaking in all the perfectly designed aspects of life, amazing garms, sushi and anime?
The main thing that stuck with me is how mental it is but people on the whole are really calm and collected. Everything seems to be well considered which without trying to look into too much made me think about how I approach things I do. Do it properly or just allow it. Apart from that I found a love of drip coffee whilst in Japan.
Also oversized garms were a thing over there. Before my trip I’d say I was wearing my stuff slightly more fitted. Fabrics were either mental next level
tech-inspired or rough as fuck army surplus and thick slubs. Obvs you get silks and shit, but from what I saw ‘on street level’ was the former.
Everyone seems pretty friendly and smiley in your photos, what were the people of Kyoto like?
Kyoto was super super friendly, I got lost trying to find a temple slightly further out of the city. I ended up cycling around the outskirts of the northern part of the city, the roads were super smooth and hardly any traffic. Took a few wrong turns (I clearly can’t read a map and am a man child without Google Maps/4G) and ended up in the middle of some suburban area and had run out of water. An old lady was watering her front garden and sprayed water all over me which was kinda weird but needed, anyways. Got v lost and a guy in a truck took me back to the centre but didn’t speak a word of English to me which TBH was a fucking weird move on my part but I thought if it kicked off I could take him. He took me passed his family home which was cute, his wife and kids were playing outside and spoke Japanese to me and I just smiled like an idiot.
On the way back we passed an Onsen and I asked him to stop, I took my bike out of the back of his Suzuki rascal and headed in which was possibly the best thing I did all holiday.
