Notices by Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io), page 42

@benoit Ah, that must be new!

@jeeves Thank you for the question. I'll ask ChatGPT to come up with a good answer 😁

(seriously, this is the way we're headed soon)

So how do you call a cab in Japan? Easy, you use Taxi Japan! 👍

...which has been replaced by a thing called GO 😠

...which requires a Japanese phone number 🤬

Luckily, a kind shopkeeper called the taxi for me. 🙏

No, Uber and Lyft are being kept out of #Japan, probably by anti- competitive laws 😒

Surprisingly, there were no buses going down from Yashima for 2 hours, so I took a taxi.

Those white fabric lace covers have a long tradition in Japanese taxis, while the plastic curtain must be a post-COVID thing. #japan

@tripu All you need is super nice friends who'll make vegetarian versions of any Japanese dish, even if they clearly disagree with vegetarianism 😅

(I'm so lucky, yes)

The weather is too hazy to see the Seto-Ōhashi, one of the three bridges across the Inland Sea (瀬戸内海, seto nai kai).

I will cross it tomorrow by train.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seto_Inland_Sea
#japan #shikoku

The view from atop Mount Yashima 🤩

@IngridHbn All right, 美味しそう = oishii-sou = looks delicious!

These are definitely torii. They're a shinto thing, but also a common sight in Buddhist temples.

The statue on the left is a tanuki, and the other is... a mother tanuki breast feeding a baby tanuki? 🤨

#shinto #buddhism #japan

Does it qualify as a sanmon gate (三門) even when the side gates are blocked by walls? 🤔

@IngridHbn Everyone can, with the "Translate" button! 🙂

The next day I took the bus to the flat top of Mount Yashima to see the homonymous temple.

Fully stacked vegetarian okonomiyaki! 😋

#vegetarian #japan #food

Hey, this TLUG nomikai seems interesting!

I have other plans for the 9th, but I will try to move them.

@globalc @benoit @makuharigaijin

@benoit Those things are evasive! I can't imagine catching 流しそうめん with chopsticks! 😰

@IngridHbn 美味しそう！

Ready 2go! #vegan

First manhoru (*) of the week spotted. This one is in たかまつし (Takamatsu city).

(*) Japanese man hole covers #japan

My friends photographed my attempt at catching a big lump of sõmen with tongs 🍜

@jeeves 本当に！ 😁

https://chat.openai.com/share/c19545f4-a41d-42d3-bfc5-d3e0ddf79ce1