19 September 2025, en route from Tokyo to Jakarta Facial recognition seemed like a good idea. Having purchased my ticket online for the Keisei Skyliner to take me from central Tokyo to Narita Airport, the site gave me the option of registering for facial recognition. Why not, I thought. No need to scan your … Read more
17 September 2025, a brief foray to Osaka from Kyoto On Wednesday, since everyone I met was talking about it, I made the short hop by train to Osaka and to the World fair, EXPO 2025! And why not, since it is only there till October, and what are plans for, if not to be … Read more
16-18 September, in Kyoto, Japan As Gold Hill in Shaftesbury is to England, so Hanamikoji Street in Kyoto is to Japan: idyllic, evocative and picture postcard ready, and both cobbled, though the former steeper and the latter with Geishas rather than the Hovis bread boy and his bicycle to the sound of Dvorak! (and if … Read more