Around 600km... My task of the day!

Tokyo is a long way from Normandy.

Exterior : Lava Grey pearl effect.
Interior : Mustang brown Milano leather.

What to do if you're one of the richest woman in Japan and own a few art pieces that are too big for your house? Easy: you buy a mountain near Kyoto and ask I. M. Pei to build you a 45,000 square meter building ! The roof should of course be a large glass & steel construction, while the walls and floors have to be made of the same warm beige-coloured limestone from France that Pei used for the reception hall of the Louvre... regardless of the time it will take to build it (6 years) or how much it will cost ($215 million).

Kyoto Station (京都駅, Kyōto-eki) is the most important transportation hub in Kyoto, Japan. It has Japan's second-largest train station building (after Nagoya Station) and is one of the country's largest buildings, incorporating a shopping mall, hotel, movie theater, Isetan department store, and several local government facilities under one 15-story roof. It also housed the Kyoto City Air Terminal until August 31, 2002 - wikipedia

Two hours mandatory lecture to renew one's driving license. Doesn't matter if your japanese is not good enough (like myself), or if you sleep through it (like a couple of guys around me), all you have to do is sit!

In Japan, you need to renew your driver's license every 3 to 5 years: no renewal without passing an eye test.

Never seen such a big one.

Shilla hotel in Jeju Island.

Not the latest model. Time to renew your fleet, Korean Air!

For Korea...

For once that I'm in the same time zone as the Olympics, I can't even watch the events I'm interested in. NHK doesn't care too much about the events where no Japanese athletes are involved while live internet broadcast are not accessible outside of the country of origin (this screenshot is from France, but the same applies to e.g. BBC). This is just about money and it really sucks !

PS: I have already missed synchronised diving :-(