sjftokyo's comments

That's really kind, thank you! Hope you enjoyed your last couple of days here. Next time you're in Kyoto I recommend Farmoon as a nice place to get some vegan treats, unfortunately they're only open Friday~Sun. Take care!

Very nice, glad you're having a good time! Have you stumbled upon https://kyotovegan.jp/ yet? Lots of good restaurants on there to check out in your last couple of days.

I really love Shimogamo Shrine and the whole Demachiyanagi Area including over to Ichijoji. It doesn't get too busy and the Demachiyanagi Shotengai shopping street is wonderful to walk up and down and see the interesting stores inside, it's covered too so great for the rainy season! There's a cool cinema in there as well as some fascinating book shops. Queue up for Futaba if you want some traditional Japanese sweets but it might be a long wait.

Also the walk up to Shimogamo Shrine from Demachiyanagi Station is so peaceful, especially during the week. I do sound tours around that area capturing interesting sound with field recorders that I provide. It's a very interesting place to find soundscapes and 'hear' Kyoto instead of just see it! If that sounds interesting: https://ohayo.substack.com/p/kyoto-sound-walks

And if you're into sake there's the Fushimi Sake village which doesn't get too busy and is really nice to just stroll around and visit the shops and museums. There's also a river tour. There's another interesting old school undercover shopping street there as well.

Hope you enjoy your last two days here!

When are you visiting? I live here and love this city. If you need recommendations of anything to see or do whilst here I'd be more than happy to help.

How are you finding Kyoto so far? Hope you're enjoying it! I live here and absolutely love the city. Happy to help with recommendations if you're staying a while.

"I just honestly can't find a place to build small private communities in a sane way."

Signal does exactly this and I've used it to build a small private community of people who listen to my podcast. It's wonderful.

Cody Ellingham and I created this web audio player whilst stuck in the lockdown of our respective cities. It's an homage to that exciting feeling of your first night in an unfamiliar city; something which we all couldn’t easily experience in 2020.

Six cities presented in six beautiful late-night photographs accompanied by six blissful soundtracks.

For audio we used the howler.js Web Audio library: https://github.com/goldfire/howler.js

"A simple way"..that costs $10 a month. This price point is set ridiculously high, sorry.