Sep 29, 2015 | Area Guides, Photography, Raves, Reviews, Sendai, Video
Last week there was a holiday weekend so instead of competing with the rest of the nation on buying overpriced plane/train tickets to go to overcrowded destinations, we went camping with some friends up in the hills of beautiful Miyagi Prefecture. I think I mentioned...
Sep 1, 2015 | Food, Raves, Reviews, Tokyo
There’s lots to like about eating out in Japan. Aside from the seemingly infinite variety and general high-quality of the food itself, there’s a lot to be said for how often I find the locale itself will add to the experience. Due to its relative scarcity,...
Jun 23, 2015 | Area Guides, Food, Photography, Raves, Reviews, Tokyo
A while back while we were still in Tokyo, we met up with an old friend of Mary’s and headed into the night. After an Izakaya dinner in Shinjuku, we were searching for a place to have a drink. There’s certainly no shortage of places in Shinjuku to have a...
Jun 18, 2015 | Area Guides, Culture, Photography, Raves, Tokyo
I wonder how many Tokyo travel guide covers the entrance to the temple Senso-Ji appears on? I’ll be it’s roughly all of them! And yet, with as many times as I’ve been to Tokyo, I’d never visited it myself. So one pleasant early-spring...
Dec 22, 2004 | Raves, Uncategorized
I obviously haven’t completed JET Review Part 2: Electric Boogaloo. If you saw how good the Trainspotting footage looked though, you’d totally forgive me. It’s schweeeeet. Anyway, I’m gonna be driving to my folks’ place In Louisiana for...
Dec 16, 2004 | Commentary, Experiences, Fukuma, Rants, Raves
I would never presume to claim that this site is a valuable source of indispensable information, but I would say that we’ve got some good stuff today. While it’s a subjective interpretation of the JET Programme, I believe it to have value for those...
