I β™‘ Wasting Ink β†’ Diaries β†’ These Walking Dreams β†’ Day 126 (August 16, 2017)

Kushiro, Hokkaido β†’ Konbumori, Hokkaido

Map of Hokkaido with author’s route from Kushiro to Konbumori highlighted.

Open map in Gaia GPS β†’

View of a small city from a bridge across a wide river.

πŸ“ Kushiro, Hokkaido
People throng a seafood stall at a market.
Frozen flatfish in a wooden crate.

A lunch bowl of very colorful raw seafood: yellow sea urchin, pink shrimp, various pink and yellow fish, white squid, white-yellow crab.

πŸ“ Kushiro Washō Market, Hokkaido

Oh God, not another fucking beautiful rainbow of a seafood bowl, to paraphrase Alice de Janzé from White Mischief.

Fireworks explode in the night sky above a small city.

Many of the characters from the film My Neighbor Totoro on a trellis.

πŸ“ Kushiro, Hokkaido
These Walking Dreams is a visual field diary of a 4,300-kilometer walk from one end of Japan to the other, in the spring and summer of 2017.

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