What's the most valuable thing you've ever had stolen? My mother had once painted an entire little town in China. There were lots of different houses (which had a small space where you could put in a small candle, so that when you lit it, the house was glowing!), and even musicians! And during Christmas [...]

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Osaka　大阪 I got a bit confused about the station name in Osaka, but after a bit of awkward Japanese with the ticket office lady, I understood that Shin-Osaka as it was written on my ticket wasn’t another town, just that the the JR Shinkansen station is called Shin-Osaka/新大阪(“new Osaka). It was built to avoid the [...]