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By the magic of the Google Empire, I found this video of some guy riding a motorbike through part of the downtown area of Kushiro (where I live). Now you can sort of see what I mean when I say driving here is crazy.
…Speaking of things that are not happy, I bring you an INCREDIBLY depessing slideshow of Kushiro. I bet that makes you want to come visit me!! It’s true to a point, but it’s certainly not as bad as a slideshow of closed shops set to sad music. I dunno when that person was here and for how long, but there ARE bustling parts of this city. Stores are thriving where I live… to a point that I cannot really understand how they are all being supported, not that I’m complaining. It of course can’t compare to a real city like Sapporo, but hey… I come from a very similar declining coastal manufacturing city back in the States, and this is just how these places are nowadays.
But you know what is NOT dying here? Nature. There is a volcano in the distance with hot springs billowing pillars of white clouds… and it is freaking majestic on a clear day. The biggest marshland in Japan is also here, and there are more Japanese cranes than you can scare in a game of Scare-Japanese-Cranes-by-Honking-Madly (not that I have ever done this…).
