I think at the end of this journey I will have pain greater appreciation for what it takes to maintain infrastructure that allows us to move around.

How do we keep everyone safe, moving, and able to use the preferred or required means of transportation?

Lovely lake to start the day.

Hmm this road does not have much of a sidewalk..

Super thanks to this man working nearby who helped me find a safer path.

Yep… this is a lot better.

Neat way to make a jungle gym!

Pedestrian crossing for railroad tracks

Flowers below. I like colored manhole covers. How do they remain colorful?

Wires above

François been drinking too much .. milk tea?

I took note of one particular new piece of concrete that seemed to break the pattern of old concrete, and wondered about the history.

After this cute picture, 3 hours of painful walking on super incredibly rough asphalt.

It took 3 hours to walk the final 3 - 4 km tonight, about 40 minutes of which was streamed on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/tv/CNzWG5aHelC/

It was quite dark in some sections, and I looked for my headlamp but could not work out where it was. I wore sandals for about 300 meters near the end of the 3km because it got dark and dangerous and I couldn’t see what I was stepping on. I took shoes off again once I got to an area with lights.

In other news, I lost the lens cap of my new camera. Any camera shops near here? Mark is going to try to source a replacement.

Here is the original plan for Day 3:

After standing at the train line for a while and getting pictures of François while next to the trains as they went by the broken fence, I discovered that one of the crossings nearby was for a very small path crossing the tracks.

Getting semi sort of close to Yasaka Station, I found a bunch of beer cans dumped by a vending machine.

Upon closer inspection, I discovered they were milk tea!

Around 4:30 p.m. I stepped on something sharp enough to cause my foot to bleed.

Around 4:50pm, after lugging my baggage down about 20 steps I discovered this gate was closed.

It took a long time to walk around the outside part and I never actually walked to the open area near the entrance for walking meditation.

In Family Mart, I bought chicken, salad, cold corn soup and banana jelly.

8pm or so

It took 3 hours to walk the final 3 - 4 km tonight, about 40 minutes of which was streamed on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/tv/CNzWG5aHelC/

It was quite dark in some sections, and I looked for my headlamp but could not work out where it was. I wore sandals for about 300 meters near the end of the 3km because it got dark and dangerous and I couldn’t see what I was stepping on. I took shoes off again once I got to an area with lights.

In other news, I lost the lens cap of my new camera. Any camera shops near here? Mark is going to try to source a replacement.

I checked in to the hotel and the desk clerk spoke English pretty well. We talked about the increasing suicide rate in young women in Japan, and he made the claim that poverty should be illegal.

I didn’t debate him on that point. We talked about how the “Federal” Reserve Bank is a privately owned company.