✈️ A propos of nothing, just 44 days until my next trip to Japan.

Could I be more excited? I’m already making a todo list for the visit, taking in Osaka (again) and Tokyo (again!!!).

Right now, it mostly consists of places to go and soak in a hot public bath with strangers, but I’ll be adding food-related places too soon.

Who else flies to the other side of the planet for an onsen and some ramen? Obviously, there’s more to the visit each time I go, but I swear my happiest memories of Japan involve being boiled alive in a communal bath and then working my way through a seemingly bottomless bowl of delicious tonkotsu ramen.