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Fukuoka, 2024.09.29

I headed across the downtown area of Fukuoka to see if I could fins a collared t-shirt in my size, as one of the shirts I brought with me is disintegrating rapidly. I failed, because the retailers were loaded with hoodies and denim jackets. It's still over 30ยบ every day and I admire their optimism. I decided to go for a ferry ride to the islands that form the outer harbor. I would spend the next several hours doing that, first riding to the island and then walking back about 5.4km to a train station. One train exchange and I was back at Hakata, from which I walked back. I looked it up and it seems I'd walked about 5.4km on the city side, all in. Symmetry!

the ferry ride

rand()m quote

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

—George Orwell