Steve McCarty 🇯🇵<p>Lake Biwa (琵琶湖) overnight, featuring a colorful sunset behind Nagahama Castle (長浜城). Lake Biwa is so large that it has waves. The resort hotel has long periods with free snacks and drinks, so we don't need to pay for dinner, just the nice breakfast buffet. After that, I didn't need any food until dinner. It's summer vacation and there were many young families. I went swimming in the pool, and a child of about two presented me with a tiny leaf. I misplaced my sunglasses in the hotel, then my wife lost her shopping bag in a huge outlet mall, but we got them back, as usual. Now even my Japanese wife is starting to feel what I always say to staff, which puts a smile on their faces: 「さすがに日本! Sasuga ni Nippon!」 - That's Japan! </p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Japanese</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/lake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lake</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/castle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>castle</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/resort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resort</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/tourism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tourism</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/sunset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sunset</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/sightseeing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sightseeing</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/photos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photos</span></a></p>