Oct 6, 2015 | Area Guides, Experiences, Photography, Sendai
Whenever I find myself in a new environment, particularly in a city, one of the first things I have the irresistible urge to do is get to the highest point I can and survey the area. There’s just no better way to get a handle on how all the areas you’ll...
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 12, 2015 | Area Guides, Culture, Experiences, Photography, Sendai
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...
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...
