Kyoto Insights
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Clinical psychologist (and ex-architect) based in Japan writing on therapy, zen, buddhism, meditation, existentialism and psychoanalysis
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Welcome to sulforous hell or.. heaven? This place is called Jigokudani (地獄谷) or "Hell Valley". It's both dangerous and majestic, both harmful (the water can reach 130C degrees and the chemical steams can get pretty poisonous) and good for your health (in a proper concentration sulfur makes your skin nice and soft). In any case, it's one of the best hot springs in Japan and looks great in every season.
This is my third time in Sapporo, but I've never seen this city in all its winter glory before. A combination of uptight office buildings from the 80s, shabby wooden huts and modest apartment blocks that looked slightly faded in summer is now completely refreshed by a thin layer of snow.
🎙 New content for Russian speakers! Happy to announce that my friends from Steklo.Beton podcast have published an episode featuring me. It lasts an entire hour and there will be a second part coming soon… Our original call continued for more than 3 hours — these guys made an enormous effort to cut and edit my endless ramble. Despite me going off-topic every 5 minutes to explain some big-picture cultural phenomena, the podcast focuses on Japanese architecture and why it often gets misunderstood by Western observers.

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Заранее предупреждаю, я никогда не изучала архитектуру по-русски и уже седьмой год живу вдали от родины, поэтому говорю странновато, долго подбираю некоторые слова и использую англицизмы. Но я стараюсь не бояться делать ошибки, чтобы не застопорить прогресс, и надеюсь, что вы меня поддержите ♥️
Messy but classy — this is how I would describe Sapporo in three words. In my opinion it has the highest concentration of retro aesthetics in the air among all major Japanese cities. Modest Toyota Crown Comfort taxi cars that are slowly disappearing from Tokyo and Kyoto are in abundance here and take you back to the 90s at every traffic light. Same thing with the trams that run in a ring through the city center: they are an extremely rare sight for Japan and add to the grand nostalgia.
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