SpacE SavErS

This is a Japanese cemetery. Yep, the coziness factor continues even in the after-life! Each family has a "plot" and builds upward.

Typical hotel bathroom...efficiency style. Rooms like these are a form of weight loss in which we are mentally conditioned to think small, stay small...

This was fancy onsen hotel...but no queen beds were to be found. 3 of us smushed together..futon-to-futon-to-futon. Isn't that cozy!

I have mentioned in previous posts that things in Japan are smaller...vehicles (keep 'em pint sized as the roads are really only built for one car), grocery carts (keep 'em small, so people don't overeat), food portions (again, keep 'em teeny so no one will be overweight).... So I have snapped a few pics here and there to demonstrate the "smallness" of this hugely overpopulated country. Even a small town like Taneichi can feel crowded.. with stores stacked upon one another and a zillion hole-in-the-wall salons, cafes and retail shops found within one another...space is a serious concern! Fortunately, my home is more "Westernized" and in keeping with that tradition: I have space!!! It has been a test at times to "think small", but I think the idea of living within your means holds merit--when in Rome be Roman. Errr...I mean Japanese.