Japan is a known for two things internationally. Ultra high tech futuristic cities and hundreds of years old historic districts which evoke Samurais and Geishas.
But the reality is that most of the country, or at least the bits I've seen live in this in between place, niether new enough to be dazzling or old enough to be important. but this is the inbetween time that I love.
It feels lived in, it feels like things exist for a reason, they were new maybe 40 or 50 years ago and they have served their purpose and yeah they have some patina to them, but that patina is really just the stories that make up a life.
and they are layered and they a detailed and they teach us a lot.