Caveat: 9/9/9

Well, that's an easy date to remember.   I was going to go to the Fukuoka Asian art museum today but it was closed.  So I wandered around in the afternoon.  I saw the ACROS building (I'll post video of it when I can get a cheaper internet connection), it's actually a bit famous, architecturally.  ACROS is perhaps famous, but I actually recognized it from a cartoon — haha.  One of my favorite Japanese anime series is the absurdist Excel Saga, which is based in a slightly fictionalized (or a lot fictionalized) version of Fukuoka.   It's very strange to be recognizing a cityscape from a cartoon.   I also saw the Fukuoka Yahoo! Dome — yes, that Yahoo!, which is big in Japan.  And Fukuoka is a bit of a software city, maybe a sort of Japanese, subtropical Seattle?  And a big shopping mall.  And many Starbucks.  OK… more later.

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