Personal from Japan

Second day in a village in Japan. Two stops, that's all.

There's a small city kind of close, and things are very, very different from home.

Just about every pokestop and gym is sponsored, so shopping malls sit on sweet clusters, and apart from that there's very little to be seen.

Farfetch'd is glaringly absent, again a major difference from the relatively common occurence of Mr Mime back home.

In this small community basically every gym I've seen, which is a modest thirty or so, is filled to capacity and well fed. This in turn speaks of a relatively low turnover, or at least one where opposing teams basically swap gyms in a coreographed dance of hostile cooperation.

Cluster spawns occur with a frequency I'm unused to from home, but apart from those this rural area lives up to every preconception I've had about spawn desolation.

While the gyms are well fed and filled, I've yet to see a single person play PoGo in an obvious way. No cabling running from pocket to phone, no erratic walking to reach a stop, and obviously no upwards sweeping over the screen to catch a mon.

Btw, wheezing was an absolute joke. I knew that level two raids were soloable, but I didn't expect them to be an insult.