Gas price update for August

Regular gas prices surge as high as 196 yen per liter after wholesale price increase - Mainichi Daily News

Here in Tottori, it's ¥183 a liter. At today's exchange rates, that's about...$6.44 a gallon.

It's a GOOD thing that the really cool game center, which was underneath the nice movie theater, both of which are a good 40 minute drive away, is closed for remodeling.

Of course, when I say "remodeling," it's in the extreme Japanese sense of "knock down the entire building and put up a new one from scratch."