Day 96: Okashi

Last Saturday I went to Kyoto on a class trip. It was humid, rainy, and uncomfortable. But at the end of the trip, we went into an okashi (お菓子) shop (where the air conditioning was blasting, yay) and made our own okashi. Okashi are Japanese sweets that you usually eat with tea. Since the tea is usually bitter, the sweets are very...well, sweet to balance out the bitterness of the tea.

 

Turned into...

And then this turns into...

 

The final product:

Today I met up with my friend, N, who's here in Japan on an internship, and we went around Umeda and Namba. We also took a quick look in Amerikamura, which translates to "American Village". There's even a small scale version of the Statue of Liberty. Anyways, by the time we started walking through there, the rain started pouring and I remembered to snap a picture. 

And I would like to end this post with a photo of one of Japan's most unnecessary products:

If you can't tell, that's a spritzer inside.