Japan Photo of the Week: Sapporo Pose

The rainy season. Three words I have come to hate in the past few years. To be honest, it isn’t the rain that is bad, it is the humidity. Now I am no stranger to humidity, having grown up in North Carolina and going to college at the University of Miami, but the difference is that in the states, I would drive everywhere and everywhere has AC (that works and is always on). In Japan, I walk everywhere and very few places like to use air conditioning (places that I frequent anyway). So what is the solution? Hokkaido, Japan’s most northern prefecture that pretty much has no rainy season and is far less humid than the rest of Japan in the summer. Also, where I took this photo:

More specifically, this was taken in Odori Koen in Sapporo. I was walking through the park when suddenly these three college students starting going topless and ran up on the statue. To say they were happy when I showed them the photos I took and told them I would email them to them, is an understatement. They acted as if they had just completed a lifelong accomplishment. Anyway, they were nice guys.

This photograph was taken by Evan Pike.