After a small mishap where I shamelessly broke the law by stealing train services, I had a very nice latte and watched the birds fight over stale bread.
Kitakyushu is a largeish port city near fukuoka that has a museum I’ve been wanting to see for years. The TOTO museum isn’t a toilet museum, not exactly. But this is the first thing you see, so….
The company spent years developing the bidet part of the toilet. In the meantime, toto made dishes. This beautiful set was made for the emperor’s household Yes it runs on “animal waste”This museum even had some artThe squatty potty used to be made of wood. Nasty.I would love to have this right now.That’s 700,000 yen for just the toilet. TOTO sells prefab bathrooms, and they are beautifulIm pretty sure it was beef, but exactly what part of the animal it was im not exactly sure. Still, very tasty.At the waterfrontAt the railway history museum. Mojiko train station. Most of the existing buildings are western because of the trade activity.Historically, this is the port where bananas were imported from Taiwan. There’s decent tasting banana ice cream, tooOn my way home from the station, sumiyoshi shrineSome kind of practice or ceremonial dohyo. Later a dude with a sumo wrestler hairdo was tarping it. Im sure there was a ceremony related to the tournament going on right now
