Archive For The “Traveling” Category

Dogenzaka Love Hotel

By | January 21, 2008

Most anyone who’s into some sort of Japanese pop culture knows about the existence of Love Hotels. Are you in the mood for a quickie and need some accomodations? Indiscriminate lover? Have a whore? Curious at the, from an American’s perspective, novelty of having hotels blatantly dedicated to sex? If you gave a yes to [...]

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Winter Break: Matsushima

By | January 15, 2008

A month or two ago some guy on my Flickr contact list posted pictures of Matsushima, a famous bay in Japan made up of hundreds of tiny islands, on his Flickr account. I wanted to go eventually, it being one of the Three Views of Japan and all, but until one night during winter vacation [...]

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Yuki Masturi: Two Guys Walk Into a Conbini

By | January 10, 2008

So two guys walk into a convenience store. One goes to the back to grab a bottle of Coke. The other one walks up to the counter and pays for three airline tickets. The first guy waits in line holding his 120 yen bottle of Coke while he patiently waits for the time it takes [...]

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Winter Break: Nearly-Naked Harajuku Dancer Guy

By | January 8, 2008

Jason, Chris, and Jake finally returned back to the US, and after staying at Tsukuba with Beth for a few days, I’m finally back at home. Too much stuff happened over break to put in one entry, so I’m going to split everything up. Today I shall start with Nearly-Naked Harajuku Dancer Guy. For one [...]

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Thanksgiving, marching bands, and useless trips to nowhere

By | December 1, 2007

This post was updated on December 8, 2007 to add some more photos. Thanksgiving. It was one of the best meals I’ve had since coming to this country. I refused to let this holiday pass without celebrating it with busting my gut full of food, so I invited some other JETs and some of their [...]

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the brilliant green concert

By | November 13, 2007

As we’d be going through Tokyo to get to Chiba for the the brilliant green concert, Beth and I figured we might as well make a slight detour to go to the hamburger shop in Akihabara that I raved about. For the record, it’s a place called Seattle Burger that’s in a big building near [...]

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