I hope you're having an enjoyable Golden Week holidays! I heard that there may be some changes in allowing tourism, depending on what the pandemic numbers look like after Golden Week. Crossing my fingers for good news. We've started looking at potential travel dates and realizing that July and August might not be the best time, due to weather. So if we can't make June work (which is unlikely), possibly October or November. (September looks iffy too.)

Is takoyaki those little balls you see being made on the street, with octopus in them? I've never had it (yet), but am amazed at the skill with which it's prepared.