Richard "RichiH" Hartmann<p>I'm in <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Tokyo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tokyo</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> riding the local trains. Masks are not really all that common any more. It's kinda a trope by now that the seats near The Big German remain free. I'm used to it. And if anyone sits down near or next to me it's almost exclusively men.</p><p>I'm wearing my <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/mask" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mask</span></a> as I do on planes and public transport, and for the first time ~ever in Asia the seats right next to me were taken up very quickly, both by women, one wearing a mask, one not.</p><p>1/2</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/travelnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>travelnotes</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/traveltales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>traveltales</span></a></p>