Category Archives: Japan
Reigning Cats…
As always, meandering musings of nothing in particular, but pictures make it bearable… Today (tomorrow for you past-dwellers) is ‘Tanabata,’ the ‘Star Festival.’ To celebrate we wrote wishes onto slips of paper and tied them to trees temporarily imported into … Continue reading
Tokyo Disney is Something to See
The Tokyo Disney complex is about an hour away from the apartment toward the North end of Tokyo Bay. There are two main complexes; The Magic Kingdom and DisneySea, along with the usual shopping malls and hotels. We spent the … Continue reading
A Little of This…
…a little of that. First up, food. Let me say right off that food is likely to come up quite a bit in these posts. It’s probably because I’ve never seen so many restaurants jammed together in my life. I would … Continue reading
180 Degrees of Food
We went out to eat both Thursday and Friday nights. The meals couldn’t have been more different. Each was eaten on a very rainy night. June and July constitute ‘tsuyu,’ or the ‘rainy season,’ and we’re resigned to getting wet … Continue reading
People and Other Things
There is a lot of amazing architecture here to counter-balance the mostly plain post-war brick and concrete structures. But the most interesting thing about Tokyo is people. Twenty-plus million of them. And while the people here may be fairly conservative … Continue reading
Tokyo Fish Market
It was a warm Saturday so we decided to get out and explore the Tokyo fish market. Amy had been in the area a few days earlier for a business meeting and had found a great sushi place. We found it … Continue reading
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