Western and Japanese fantasies of a traveler's life
Life on the road, and the virtues of keeping life and road separate
OSAKA —I’m typing with my forearms resting on a sticky vinyl tabletop in a pastel green hotel room where everything but the internet router is older than I am.
It’s a relief to be stationary after three days traveling nearly a thousand miles by train to obtain ekiben. Cautious daylight glows in the yellowing curtains, and …
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