Japan, My Foot: Desperate Acupuncture

Third of seven, three-min sections: an unsavvy traveler can’t go anywhere without injury. Each part accompanied by original comic haiku.

Our third day in Kyoto, I woke unable to put weight on my foot.

Our plan that day was to head for Nara, a nearby city famous for sites more ancient than Kyoto’s. Walking was the thing to do in Nara: around the park filled with free-roaming deer; up a mountain; through the Daibutsu-den, the largest wooden structure in…