“Mild” Adultery at the Conbini (Japanese Convenience Store)

How a convenience store coffee taught me more about Japan than ascetic yamabushi training in the mountains ever did.

“Mild” Adultery at the Conbini (Japanese Convenience Store)

Jam. Bread. Coffee. Enjoyable breakfast.

I’ve lived in Japan for 15 years.
I can purify you before entering the mountains, hike said mountains in full yamabushi gear, and still have enough energy to recite a seven-and-a-half-minute shinto prayer word for word.

But on Tuesday morning, I was defeated…