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Shimbashi station, up to Tokyo Tower..

Posted in Japan, Japan travel, Japanese culture, Life, Photos on November 14, 2012 | 1 Comment »

I’m putting off the depressing tsunami posts for a little while longer, so that I can get some happy up on here. Everybody loves some happy, right? By the way, if you haven’t been keeping up with my Facebook and Twitter, you haven’t been seeing snippets of things that I’m working on and doing. So.. [...]

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Kamakura photo journey part 4 (from Tamara!)

Posted in Japan, Japan travel, Japanese cafes, Japanese culture, Life, People-watching, Photos on October 7, 2012 | 10 Comments »

I snuck photos off of Tamara’s camera for this last post about Kamakura! I’m sneaky. Ehehehee. By the way, unlike me, Tamara is a professional videographer, and her new documentary, The Lesbian Code, is traveling the film festival circuit right now! Check it out if you can! And of course, if you’re in Seattle and [...]

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Kamakura photo journey part 3 (*^-^*) (Enoshima a go-go!)

Posted in Japan, Japan travel, Japanese culture, Life, People-watching, Photos on October 7, 2012 | 3 Comments »

After Kamakura, Tamara and I headed off to Enoshima, a small island nearby. The train was really slow, though, and it wasn’t until after dark that we reached the little island! I love Enoshima, and have been there almost every summer since I moved to Japan, even if it’s just for one day at a [...]

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Kamakura photo journey part 2 (*^-^*)

Posted in Japan, Japan travel, Japanese culture, Life, People-watching, Photos on October 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I believe that I left off yesterday right at Tamara and my arrival at the giant buddha of Kamakura. And by ‘giant,’ I do mean GIANT! I’ve been there once before, like I said yesterday, but I had totally forgotten one cool thing– that you can also go inside! Who knew? (Apparently not me!) Let’s [...]

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Kamakura photo journey part 1 (*^-^*)

Posted in Japan, Japan travel, Japanese culture, Life on October 5, 2012 | 2 Comments »

It’s been far longer than I wanted to wait between updates, but I’ve been running myself ragged playing tour guide! ^o^;; It’s been fun though, and I’ve taken a ton of pictures!! Now I finally get a chance to share them with you, starting NOW! Yaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!! First off was Kamakura. Tamara wanted to see the [...]

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What is a mikoshi?

Posted in Celebrations, Filming, Japan, Japanese culture, Life, Photos on September 7, 2012 | 2 Comments »

I have here a plethora of pictures from my most recent filming of Asahi Pop’n Press. These are about Japanese mikoshi! What’s a mikoshi? Glad you asked!! They are portable shrines on sticks that are carried around by volunteers during festivals. They weight a LOT, and are made almost entirely from gold and high-grade hand-carved [...]

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Tamagawa fireworks festival! (*^-^*)

Posted in Celebrations, Japanese culture, Japanese traditional food, Life, Photos on August 19, 2012 | 21 Comments »

Every year (except last year– you know, Earthquake and all), Yokohama city throws a huge fireworks display on the Tama river. I didn’t realize that it was going on yesterday until around 5 (it startsat 7), and so I threw on a dress, grabbed my camera and tripod, and flew out the door to join [...]

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