15 November 2025
A lot of potato
More Okayama Aeon mall
As threatened, I went back to the mall.
While there I visited the public toilets, and for the second time on this trip, I was taken aback by a boy with blonde hair using a hair straightener to make bits of his fringe pointy. Yes that exact thing has happened twice in 2 separate cities, presumably 2 different boys. I wonder if they are beautifying themselves in secret away from their homes.
As you will see below, I feel as though I have run out of things to see in the evening in Okayama, hence the sign pics, repeat mall visits, lack of photos in general.
Tomorrow I go back to Tokyo, and if I cannot find things to look at there at night, something is wrong with me.
I first checked out behind the station. This is basically all there is there.
After a lap of a hardware store I decided to make my way back to the Aeon mall via the creek. It was super dark, but a 20 second exposure can take care of that.
The underground station mall joins the creek and the Aeon mall.
Inside the mall now, and it seems I have missed a peach festival colouring in competition. I would have totally dominated.
The local J league football team (which is a really big deal) is seriously named Okayama Fagiano, which is the Italian word for pheasant. The team are referred to as fags by their fans. They do not play a lot of games outside of Japan.
Reverting back to my hair straighteners in the men's toilets story, play the dandy. I checked, "a man unduly concerned with looking stylish and fashionable".
And so, after a lot of content aimed at further cancelling myself, it was time for another doria. Tongiht's doria, baked penne pasta with a whole tomato. It came with a side dish, the photo had a tiny bowl with 4 wedges of potato, where as I got a huge bowl of probably 2 entire potatoes. So pasta, cheese and potatoes. Weird angle on the photo because the doria sits on top of a alcohol burner on a stand. You are supposed to spoon mouthfuls out of it into the little bowl, so of course I tipped the potatoes in and ate it all out of the heated metal dish.
Tomorrow is a relatively long train ride back to Tokyo, no hiking and not many photos.