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Archive for May, 2012

Let’s explore my neighborhood in rural Tokyo (part 2)

Posted in Japan, Life, Photos on May 30, 2012 | 7 Comments »

Well, I learned something new with this exploration: I cannot turn my aperture down to f1.4 in sunny weather without blowing out the picture! Oops! A lot of these pictures came out really bright, but sometimes the effect was really nice! =^-^=

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Trash day in Japan!

Posted in Japan, Japanese culture, Life, Photos on May 27, 2012 | 23 Comments »

I said, the day before yesterday, that I was going to take pictures of those little stickers that the garbage people put onto your bag o’ trash if you don’t follow the rules, right? Well, try as I might, when I went out looking for trash that the garbage men had left behind, I couldn’t [...]

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Let’s explore my neighborhood in rural Tokyo (part 1)

Posted in Japan, Life, People-watching, Photos on May 25, 2012 | 22 Comments »

Most of you know what I look like, but two months ago, I moved to a new neighborhood. It’s actually just a ten-minute walk from my old place, but being a twenty-minute walk from the nearest train station means that, in Tokyo, you’re getting pretty far out into the boonies. ^^ I love it! Actually, [...]

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Talk a walk through Shimamachi with me ^^

Posted in Japan, Japan travel, Japanese culture, Japanese restaurants, Japanese traditional food, Life, Photos on May 24, 2012 | 15 Comments »

Shimamachi, on the outskirts of Tokyo, is really famous with the Japanese. It’s not because it’s quaint, or because it’s old-fashioned, or because it’s kitschy (although it’s all those things!). It’s because it’s where the movie series “Otoko wa Tsurai yo” (It’s tough being a man) was filmed. The series is about, the kind of [...]

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Enmeiji temple

Posted in Japan, Japan travel, Japanese culture, Life, Photos on May 23, 2012 | 9 Comments »

A few weeks ago, funnyman friend Marianne and I headed out to Enmeiji temple. I’ve finally gotten the pictures out of my camera and onto my blog, so here they are! Enmeiji is the site of a former execution ground during the Edo period. Thousands of people were executed here, and the graves and buddha [...]

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Yokohama Ramen museum *^o^*

Posted in Japan, Japan travel, Japanese cafes, Japanese restaurants, Japanese traditional food, Life, Photos on May 22, 2012 | 10 Comments »

Every once in a while, I get a craving for that salty, rich, slimy soup-ish stuff known as ramen. Although it’s technically chinese, Japanese ramen is still leaps and bounds above that cheap stuff that my Mom used to buy for 4/$1.00 in the US supermarkets. Not that that stuff was bad! I practically grew [...]

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I wish…

Posted in art, Japan, Life, tagged , , on May 3, 2012 | 14 Comments »

I wish that I could spend all of my days creating a fantasy world, then live in it. Create a world full of tall peaks, the tops blurry and white, the bases filled with fields of marigolds. Small streams would run through the meadows, and tiny fairies would play games along the edges. Those same [...]

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