Jun 26, 2015 | Photography, Tokyo
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
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...
May 11, 2015 | Photography, Tokyo
I swear, one of these days I’ll having something to write about as well but for the moment, I’m just trying to get into a normal swing of a sustainable photo workflow. You might say I’m trying to develop a photo routine. Get it? <sigh>...
May 8, 2015 | Photography, Tokyo
I have fond memories of Shinjuku at night. The first time I visited was in 1997 on an epic trip with fellow exchange students and friends, Damon, Louis and Mike. There was a bit of a story, but the gist of it is that the place we’d arranged to stay at fell...
May 7, 2015 | Photography, Sendai, Tokyo
Even though I’ve only visited there for a couple days in total, I really like Sendai so far. It’s got a good, energetic vibe but is still totally warm. During my walk around town when I took these photos, it wasn’t unusual for people to greet me as...