Minmaxing Life

A couple of weekends ago I was still in Japan, visiting Yakushima: a small island south of Japan.
Dylan of Q-Games had kindly remarked that “there’s nothing there” and I should head to Kyoto instead (where there’s a lot more bars, obviously). He was right as there is not much more to see than a forest. But what a forest! Yakushima is not only a UNESCO world heritage site, its primeval forest was also the inspiration for Hayao Miyazaki’s Mononoke Hime. With its deers roaming peacefully between millenarian cedar trees and moss covered rocks, it’s quite easy to understand why.

On the way out of Yakushima, I was also treated to one of those delightful Japanese idiosyncrasies: apparently, harassing attendants while drunk has become such a problem that it warrants the third spot on the poster about forbidden behaviors in flight.