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Gaijin Mommy
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Permanent resident of Japan. Neuro-affirming parent. 日本語N1. Urban wildlife street photography of flowers. That lady obsessed with Tokyo Skytree. Train otaku by proxy. Sober 18 years. Survivor. Shitamachi supremacist.

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Gaijin Mommy @gaijinmommy.bsky.social · Nov 19
Hi! I am moving some of my favorite memes about Japan that I’ve made over the years across the abyss to a pinned post over here, so that we all may have a happy, new life together. Depending on how well you know me, this 🧵 will either be my informal self-introduction, or a blast from the past.
A joke map of Tokyo’s Yamanote line, with all the station names “liberally” translated into English.
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Hey Tokyo…
Unedited photograph of what happens when you try to capture a photograph of a full moon and a nearly bare tree branch at the same time. So now we know that.
December 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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night fall
Red Momiji watching over a city at nightfall from above. Leaves in focus, bokeh lights, colorless sky about to get much darker.
December 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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A little old man just passed me chanting “Sayuri, Sayuri” to the slow rhythm of his cane clicking on the pavement and I asked if Sayuri may have gone to Arakawa cuz I could look there but he didn’t know & now I am broken everyone get out and find his dog right now especially you @katch.bsky.social
Lost dog photo. Sayuri is missing from Higashi Mukojima in Sumida Ward.
December 3, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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deconstruction
Clouds erase the top of the Tokyo Skytree this morning and a large crane on the Sumida river conspires with a camera angle to make it all look like time is moving backwards and a tower is being unbuilt. A seagull flies by to check out what’s up.
December 2, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Hakone Tozan Line Therapy
December 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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show don’t smell
A stone path covered in yellow gingko leaves leading to a stone Torii this morning. Wide angle tries to capture the trees and the sky as well, but one can only sit on the ground for so long on a path that smells of gingko fruit before giving up and going home.
December 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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We can’t escape the Fall
POV: you are underneath a very large and colorful Japanese maple tree and there is absolutely no way out so you may as well enjoy being fallen. Yellows and oranges mostly. Meandering branches try to take you with them but there is nowhere to go. Starburst sun shines through at the bottom right. Make of that what you will.
December 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Dance of the Chiba Urban Monorail
November 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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In the company of giants.
November 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Me: すみません、あの、塩の書いてある缶は砂糖ですけど

Furi furi ポテト people: あっあの．．塩です。

Me: 砂糖です。

FFPP:．．．

Me: さ・と・う

FFPP: そう、そう、ソ・ル・ト

Me: 味見して下さい

5 minutes later: I have been given a free complimentary bag of furi furi ポテト, even though I tried to insist we didn’t need it…I just thought someone should tell them 😂
A picture I took of the french fry stand that accidentally replaced its salt with sugar, taken today for reference, knowing that there was no way I’d not be posting about this exchange.
November 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Guess who lit the match.
Nothing is actually on fire. But there are bokeh maple leaves in the background that are so out of focus they could be flames. In the foreground is a heron in a pine tree, looking very pleased with her decision to set the world on fire today.
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Fall on the ground.
Looking upward towards old shrine beside newer buildings and a tower, but all the buildings are babies to the ginkgo tree who’s turned the ground into a sea of yellow leaves. Until the shrine keepers come to sweep them up. Like they do every single day without fail. How silly of them.
November 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Autumn underneath Kototoi bridge.
Silhouette of an old man with a cane walking through a tunnel under a bridge toward autumn foliage on the other side. I caught up with him while admiring the Momiji after this photo was taken. A nice gentleman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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I haven’t moved from the spot where you left me.
Head (and neck) profile shot of an unmovable grey heron. Distorted fall colors reflected in a pond make up the background. The upper right almost looks like a Christmas tree but not.
November 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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We walked up a hill while killing time waiting for our train in Chichibu the other evening and accidentally discovered untouched Saitama again. 🙃
Momoji leaves framing a town with orange clouds over mountains in the background. Single blade of pampas grass with an amazing view of its town nestled between mountains at dusk. Pink clouds pitting on a show over some mountains like they know they are about to disappear. Closeup of jagged mountainside silhouette against soft pink and orange clouds as they disappear.
November 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Easy edition 😅
Grey heron perched on top of a pine tree surrounded by Japanese maple leaves.
November 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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single circuit panorama
The backs of two white children whose mom really really likes building train tracks.
November 27, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Spot the heron!
Orange and red fall foliage, tip of Tokyo Skytree in the background, and perched in the middle of it all, as if fucking with you on purpose, a grey heron.
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Last night unfiltered.
Orange sky after sunset. My Fuji towers over Tokyo even though it is far away. Tall office buildings with orderly little square windows. Behind all the little lights are people, not pictured.
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Fall in a gorge!
Autumn foliage and a river boat as seen from a gorge in Nagatoro. No one was harmed.
November 26, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Fall from a moving train!
Autumn foliage as seen from the window of the Chichibu Line as the tracks pass over Arakawa. No one was harmed.
November 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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焼き芋〜
焼き芋〜
石や〜きいも〜
Pope Leo singing like a sweet potato vendor in Japan
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Good morning Tokyo. In a world full of depression triggers, it is also important to remember that Arakawa at Nagatoro looks like this.
November 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Babysitting a カマキリ and it’s creepy shadow as they safely cross a busy sidewalk today…
November 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM