Cherry Blossoms in Tokyo, Spring 2008
In spring 2008, the plans I’d been working on hit a snag, so I couldn’t go anywhere. At this rate, it looks like life will be a rollercoaster until summer comes. A cruel spring, just as T.S. Eliot …
In spring 2008, the plans I’d been working on hit a snag, so I couldn’t go anywhere. At this rate, it looks like life will be a rollercoaster until summer comes. A cruel spring, just as T.S. Eliot …
Here’s something people visiting Tokyo tend to miss: Chiba has quite a few good spots for a shopping run. There’s IKEA, there are outlets, and there’s Carrefour. It’s not an outlet, but…
I’ve been ending up at the Marunouchi Building a lot lately. There are plenty of decent cafés, and surprisingly a lot to shop for and look at, so it works well as a meeting spot for both personal and wor…
That makes four weeks in a row -_- that I’ve headed to Akihabara. I’ve always called myself the Shibuya type, but at this rate everyone would believe me if I said I was the Akiba type. -_-;; (But I…
Okinawa has two traditional-culture theme parks: Okinawa World and Ryukyu Mura. Since I’d come all the way to Okinawa, I decided to visit one of them, and went with Okinawa World because it’s close…
If you leave the Tenryu-ji garden by the back gate instead of the front, about 500 m away there’s a temple famous for its autumn leaves called Jojakko-ji. Jojakko-ji itself is lovely, but the walk there …
Lately I’ve been making a real effort to go out and photograph the places nearby I still haven’t been to. Why does it take a real effort? Because they’re hard to get to by car. I walked for a…
I went to Tokyo Tower, which it’s no exaggeration to call the most famous sightseeing spot in Tokyo. It was daytime and the sky was gloomy, so there wasn’t much to see. So I didn’t bother goi…
The bus tour itinerary included Kecak dance and Barong dance, two of Bali’s traditional dances. I feel like I covered pretty much all of Bali’s traditional culture on this trip. The Kecak dance sta…
There was an exhibition in Odaiba, so I went on a business trip to Tokyo. Since it was for work I didn’t get many chances to take photos, but here are a few. Mr. Kaspersky, flown in from Russia He’…
Ritsurin Garden is one of the must-see sights in Takamatsu. It’s right in the middle of the city, and since it looked small for a park I went back and forth on whether to bother, but I had some time left…