The tallest gaijin couple in Japan (that we know of...we haven't looked very hard) blogs about eating, working and playing. Our combined height is 12 foot 3, we hail from middle America and our new host town's claim to fame is a festival featuring men riding huge logs down a mountain. Oh yeah, takai means tall in Japanese (among other things). It's what we wish they would call us. What they actually call us is ookii (big).
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Sakura!
There is a cemetary/park up the mountain from us and from there you have a great view of the sakura all the way down. Yesterday we made a picnic lunch of sushi and ate it under the cherry blossoms for our own personal hanami party. Afterwards we walked around a bit and discovered a little shrine area where we met these guys (foxes?)....
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