Bonus Post: The Incredible Model Toilet

Yesterday in a ‘retro candy’ shop we saw this:

A toilet model kit for under US$3? Naturally I had to buy it. Here’s the contents:

Looks like we got the ‘cute boy’ version (there are four randomly packed in the box). Here’s detail of the toilet parts still on the runners:

And here’s the assembled toilet:

He’s a charming guy isn’t he? Even better, he’s not just for looks: he has a function!

You pour in crystals from the packet, then add a bit of water and a magical thing happens:

Yes my friends, toilet-boy turns those crystals and water into a delicious foam that you can sip through a straw right from his bowl:

KLS tried it! Here’s her reaction:

It was, she said, an “evil banana” flavour 🙂

Here’s a final shot of toilet-boy presented in his diorama (cut from the box) with a full bowl of pleasure waiting for a lucky sipper:

I can’t guarantee we’ll see these things for sale again, but if you like what you see here and want your own let me know and I’ll keep my eyes peeled.

Kyoto

We’re in Kyoto now, speeding here yesterday on a bullet train. We spent the afternoon around the station area where there are several malls and lots to see.

We went up this tower and had a goosey gander. We were particularly taken by the mascot ‘Tawawa’ (geddit?); I’ll put one on your postcard!

Kyoto station has a department store in it with a super fancy food department. Even for someone that spent $60 to ride the bullet train for 11 minutes yesterday, $150 for a rockmelon seems excessive ?

Even though we’ve filled our cases to bursting we bought a bunch more stuff yesterday, from toys to books to food. How will we bring this home?

That’s KLS’s dinner, crab omelette over rice, at a restaurant in the station. No spaghetti photos today!

Finally, deer!

Yesterday we went to Nara. Originally we were going to visit Universal Studios Osaka but for arcane reasons changed our minds. Besides, there’s no deer at USJ!

We’ve been here a few times before, but it’s so much fun we were obviously going to go again. The deer are more abundant than ever (as are the – mostly Japanese – tourists) and we fed them many biscuits and made a lot of friends.

Of course it’s not all deer. Nara is a beautiful place with temples and parks all around.

I reckon a photo of the above may even be on the blog from years back?

But mostly this place is about the deer. If you like them as we do, you’d love Nara 🙂