This is the sixth in a series of posts retro-blogging my trip to Japan in January 2007, in which I recount my visit to Odaiba, Joypolis, Harajuku, Shibuya, and The Lockup. Yes, I am really still working on these despite not adding anything for six months.
I uploaded some new Japan photos to Flickr. Well, actually they’re a year old now. I really need to finish up that series of posts from my trip. Anyhow, these are the photos from the second half of this post in case you want to follow along (the photos from the first half are …
I just uploaded some more Japan photos to Flickr. This set is the first batch from January, before Mark arrived. It’s pretty much everything from this post and this post, so you can reference those for further explanation if the photo descriptions aren’t enough….
Thanks to Kotaku, I discovered some YouTube videos with incredible timing relative to my previous post. This segment from an English-language TV show in Japan is about the street idols in Akihabara. It’s pretty much exactly what we saw in January, but with a more thorough explanation, and some interviews with locals….
In which I visit a shrine with a theme, and a cafe with a better theme.
This is the fourth in a series of posts retro-blogging my Japan trip in January.
We took it easy our last morning in Fukuoka, packing up, getting a healthy American breakfast at Mr. Doughnut, and catching our 10:59 shinkansen out towards Kyoto.
Before wrapping up my Fukuoka coverage, I want to show off this panorama I made of Mark standing at an …
This is part 3 of a series of posts retro-blogging my trip to Japan in January.
We woke up to the alarm on my rental keitai at 5:30 to blistering heat. For those who don’t know, most places in Japan don’t have central heating and air conditioning. Instead, rooms are often heated individually, with dangerously portable kerosene heaters or …
