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...
As promised, this will be the last post of backdated Tokyo photos, this time all of them coming from the immediate vicinity of the temporary apartment Mary and I stayed in for the few months we were there. Not a lot of commentary this time around, I think I've said...
It's been 4 months since we left our temporary apartment in Tokyo and moved to Sendai and yet here I am <em>still</em> getting through all the photos I took there. It's certainly a little ridiculous so I'm going to put these out of their misery once and...
It's been a good couple of weeks lately. You'd never know it by the way I keep posting leftover Tokyo photos but we're finally pretty settled into daily life here in Sendai. The layout of the city is a bit less of a mystery, we've made some local friends (both...
For a quick little update today, we've got this amazing old bike I came across back in Tokyo while taking a back street home from the grocery store. There's a bit more info about the company that made it, Yamaguchi Bicycle, along with pics of the model that's seen...
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, Real Estate...
Sometime during our first few weeks in Ikebukuro I started noticing that I was seeing the same face over and over. As I pushed around new corners and backstreets in an effort to explore, it was almost inevitable that I'd see that face somewhere before too long. I...
Still catching up on all the Tokyo photos in the queue before getting to Sendai, where we've now been for a month. Yeesh, before you know it, we'll be in Osaka. :O
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 drink but...