Short list, I’ll add more short lists later. These are the top 4 places that came to my mind when thinking about a trip to Kyoto. Links to pages with more info are provided.
1) a temple over 1000 years old “Kiyomizudera”
2) a famous shrine filmed in Memoirs of a Geisha “Fushimi Inarii”
3) an authentic […]
So today my energy was sapped by a cold. Usually they don’t slow me down, and they don’t tend to be bothersome like the occasional headache from staring at a computer screen too much. However, this one made me both tired and “blah.”
Tracing the events of the weekend I’m going to guess that this […]
This picture post Friday only has one picture.
After work I met Ayako at the train station, something I do every Monday thru Friday. After meeting up I dragged her to a local restaurant that I wanted to try called Doma Doma. Doma Doma is a Japanese style Applebee’s I suppose. The menu is filled with […]
Tako! Fresh… well, looks fresh but isn’t actually fresh since it has been in the freezer for a couple weeks, so let me start that over… Fresh-looking octopus, raw and soaked in vinegar. Yummy!
Here I am cutting the octopus, tasty snack. Strange, octopus “tako” was one of the things I was most afraid to […]
This past weekend was our self-emposed deadline for filing taxes here in Japan. By law taxes are to be filed by mid-March so our deadline wasn’t at all unreasonable.
So on Sunday we went to the tax office, which was quite the experience. In Japan it is common to go to the local gov’t tax office […]
“Just got home from Illinois, lock the front door, oh boy
Got to sit down, take a rest on the porch
Imagination sets in , pretty soon Im singin’
doo, doo, doo lookin’ out my backdoor”
+5 points to the person that knows the band
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There are 3 commercials in that video made by the Japanese cell phone carrier Softbank.
Ive seen the 3rd commercial at least a half-dozen times, and each time I see it I cant help but laugh. Is that a real song? If it is - hilarious!
By the way, I hyphenated that first word in the […]
Today was another day at the office. Rather pleasant weather outside and a productive environment inside thanks to headphones that I remembered to bring today. Then again, the office wasn’t as loud as it normally tends to be.
For lunch I tagged along with a few co-workers and ended up going to great restaurant […]
Although Japan does not celebrate Valentines like the Western world - I still bought my wife a present… although perhaps with a Japanese twist.
I bought her a nabe pot and filled it with boxes of chocolate - including a real life Wonka chocolate bar sold here in Japan (Ive never seen them in the US, […]
So last night I met up with a friend that I haven’t seen since last summer. He and his wife recently bought a house in Chiba and have been overly busy moving and living between two places.
We ended up going to a station on the Yamanote line (it circles Tokyo) that I had never […]
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