Tag: Kobe

  • Japan, you had me at Toilet

    Japan, come on now. Stop it!  You don’t need to offer those gracious bows.Or your incessantly impressive food with simply stunning presentation. You don’t need to lure me with seven varieties of breakfast rolls, or 4 kinds of salt or the myriad of ways in which you offer health to every meal–with fish or seaweed…

  • 10 Things I’ll Miss Most About Japan

    Of all the things I’ll miss about Japan, I embarrassed to admit that number one is their exceptional: 1. Toilet I’ll never forget the welcoming embrace of a heated seat; nor the myriad of options available to the user while seated: rinsing, spraying, drying, deodorizing and sound.  Some toilets had temperature controls, not only for…