This Week in Dulture…

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🍙 Back to the “home land”

🚸 Do the crossing first, always

🏪 Convenience store paradise

🌅 Early mornings

Dulture weekly mix

Turn this on and just let it play today. It’s hot outside and all you want to do is be in the AC. We’re living, breathing contradictions.

If you’re going to stay inside for the day, set it and forget it (the music, that is. not your chicken, I’ll never tell you how to cook your chicken).

Quiet Chaos in Shibuya

If you’ve been to Tokyo then you already know.  But for the rest of you lot, Shibuya is home to the busiest intersection in the world.

Shibuya Scramble Crossing is not only sees the most people crossing daily in the world, it’s also home to some of the most iconic film scenes ever.

Like the time Scarlett Johansson walked through the crosswalk in Lost in Translation (here’s that movie again).

Or when they raced their modded cars through the famous crossing in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.

And we can’t forget the zombie that wasn’t out for Halloween in Shibuya in Resident Evil: Afterlife (because they’ve banned it)

They even recreated the whole intersection on set for Alice in Borderlands (new season in September btw!)

Every time I’ve gone to Tokyo this is one of the first places I go, it’s like the official entering Tokyo warp for me.

Once you cross the intersection you’re officially in the chaos that is the largest, yet quietest city in the world.

7 MF’ing Eleven

Yesterday we ended our night with a run at 7-Eleven.

I still don’t know why they do 7-Eleven so dirty in North America with Big Gulps and greasy fried food when you’ve got these immaculate locations in Asia.

You could legit live off of 7-Eleven for an entire trip and eat completely healthy, for exceptionally cheap.

From sushi, to onigiri, to even bananas and fresh smoothies you do yourself, the list goes on and on with the healthy, CHEAP, choices you can get in pretty much any Japanese convenient store tbh.

Meanwhile I picked this up to drink on the walk home instead.

I know I know, I just went through all the healthy food you can get and here I am shilling lemon seltzer.

Could’ve been worse, could’ve been a Strong Zero… IYKYK.

It’s Like We’re in Scandinavia Out Here

Here I am writing this at 5AM because I’m jet-legged AF - but also the sun was up at like 4:30…bruh.

I woke up and thought I had a good first nights rest only to realize it wasn’t even 5am yet.

So I learned Japan doesn’t shift time zones across the entire country, nor does it observe daylight savings time.  So as a result, in the summer, especially in the eastern part of the country, the sun rises mad early.

They don’t call this place the land of the rising sun for no reason.

Also, maybe this is why we get daylight savings time in North America…so y’all ain’t up at 4AM.

It’s not uncommon to see old people out and about in the streets around 5AM doing their thing.

Me: it would be way too hard to wake up early to go visit temples and shrines before the crowds.

Also me: wide awake at 5:34am ready to run a marathon..