Ekiben! And other food!

Crossposted from Glamorous in Retrospect. Author: Stephanie.

(Posting from the Kodama Shinkansen bound for Shin-Osaka. I love living in the future.)

And now it’s the first ekiben of the trip! Eki means ‘train station’ and ‘ben’ is short for ‘bento’ (a boxed lunch, basically, for those of you who aren’t familiar with it). So an ekiben is a boxed meal sold to be eaten on the train.

As with a lot of convenience stores in Japan, train stations also tend to sell good food, and each region tends to make specialty ekiben to sell at stations. We’re taking the Shinkansen to Osaka this evening, and bought ekiben for the trip.
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Dallas, this is your legacy

Crossposted from Glamorous in Retrospect. Author: Toby.

Got in to Osaka finally. It’s raining, and we realize there are no stairs at the station near the hotel, so we decide to catch a cab from the main Osaka station.

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This is our view right now

Crossposted from Glamorous in Retrospect. Author: Stephanie.

This is the view out our hotel room window. That blazingly bright thing in the middle there? Only Osaka Castle.
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Nice to see some things don’t change

Crossposted from Glamorous in Retrospect. Author: Toby.

Watching the dawn in Osaka, as jet lag is still a thing for me. Or, given it’s overcast and hazy, watching the sky slowly shift to a lighter shade of grey.

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Just for you, Rachel from California!

Crossposted from Glamorous in Retrospect. Author: Stephanie.

(Hiding behind More tag to increase suspense)
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