OhtaNotes

Sunday offers a brief reprieve from the lies we’ve told ourselves all week.

In Tokyo, the trees struggle to blend into the urban landscape; the buildings struggle to embody nature.

Friday pasta is more important than your email.

Summer routine: Wake up with a morning iced latte and drift off to sleep with a cookie.

Tuesday is the day when fleeting optimism is replaced by reality.

To escape Monday, you must embrace it.

The path to New Otani’s lounge is filled with labyrinths and temptations.

Optionality in every layer.

Let’s test how much heat we can endure before we surrender—of course, while relaxing in the hotel lounge.

This descending escalator might only be an illusion in a mirrored world, where I’m actually ascending.