Some photos of our trip to Kyoto:
Capsule Hotel - a special type of hotel in Japan. Small beds in a shared hallway, with a shared bathroom. Super cheap, and surprisingly not a bad location.
The Golden Temple, Kyoto.
Kiyomizu Temple, Kyoto
Some of the landscaping midst the hills of Fushimi Inari shrine.
Snow between Kyoto and Tokyo. It […]
entrance to a temple at Matsushima
500 year old temple facing the island filled bay of Matsushima
We ate tebasaki and hot pot for dinner that night.
Pagoda at the famous Asakusa temple at night.
The Asakusa temple, one of many temples, shrines and tourist places we visited in Tokyo.
It’s a hectic schedule this week. I’ll post a few photos tomorrow when I’m sitting inside the Shinkansen (bullet train) with Ben on our way to Kyoto. We’ll be staying in a capsule hotel in Kyoto, so looking forward to giving you a review of that.
Cheers!
Left the house around 5AM this morning on my way to work - and was surprised to see snow and ice on the ground!
Even Tokyo was enjoying a little snow-dusted ice and slush.
Yesterday, January 20th, was my Japan Day - the day I came to Japan 3 years ago. On my last Japan Day I wrote a post while reflecting on all the things that had happened in the previous 2 years. That post was, and still is, rather important to me - because it helped me […]
Over the last 2 months I’ve read a few books, occasionally I’ll reread books that I think teach some good life-lessons, and occasionally I’ll read a book just for fun. Recently, I’ve read Javascript the Good Parts - a useful read for any web-developer, The Lean Startup - has some pretty obvious advice but is […]
Baby and mother returned home this weekend.
Saturday was hectic for me - I spent the whole day cleaning the apartment, washing clothes / curtains / sheets / pillow casings, and shopping for groceries and things we needed for Mia.
On Sunday, Ayako and her parents came to Chiba by car bringing Mia and a […]
What did I do over the Christmas / New Years break?
I went to Gunma, where my wife’s parents live.
We ate and drank with family to celebrate the new year. This year, we returned to the fugu restaurant at the top of the tallest building in Maebashi.
A tail of fugu inside this warm Japanese sake.
Went well […]
Rob pointed me to this video and asked the quintessential question: “WTH?”
I agree…
It appears to be a bunch of really random stuff. Although, I must say there is a strange pattern of including things that say “mimi” みみ also sometimes written ミミ which can mean “ear” and there are several weird large-eared faces all throughout the […]
Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu!
Mia is now 1 month old! Her little hands have gotten bigger in these last 4 weeks.
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