I lived in Japan for a decade and am enjoying your posts having recently discovered your writing here. One house I rented for years in Ichinomiya, Chiba, was surrounded by rice fields. Outside our front gate no more than 10m away were three vending machines: soft drinks, cigarettes, and beer.
This story made me giggle thinking that I can’t recall anytime in Japan that I needed a jidohanbaiki and couldn’t find one!
No konbini blues. I had the same experience a couple of weeks ego.
I lived in Japan for a decade and am enjoying your posts having recently discovered your writing here. One house I rented for years in Ichinomiya, Chiba, was surrounded by rice fields. Outside our front gate no more than 10m away were three vending machines: soft drinks, cigarettes, and beer.
This story made me giggle thinking that I can’t recall anytime in Japan that I needed a jidohanbaiki and couldn’t find one!