...or the Funniest Girl in Japan, as I call her. I don`t know if she does it on purpose, but the way she talks in a slow, upbeat staccato, almost robotic, voice...it makes her humor even funnier cause you can`t tell if she is trying ( Read more... )

We went to see the life-size Gundam in Odaiba. We took so many pics, we`ll have to make a separate album for them. Including one that will need a photoshop contest.

But anyway, ( back to the story... )

Where was I? Oh, yes...Kevin had given a tour of the Kashima Jingu, answering many questions I had always had. 　We hit the new sushi chain (sushiro) with wicked cheap kaitenzushi. Rawk ( Read more... )

I dunno if that link worked yesterday, but I added more photos...and it will keep growing. I:m going to need to make a bew folder soon ( Read more... )

As I drove up to Yamashiro just now (had to correct a balance error I made tonight), I was listening to the BBC. They reported on a stabbing rampage in a mall where I man killed one and injured seven others.

"Oh, Japan. You and your random knife attacksThen the reporter continued...it took place in a city northeast of Tokyo. Tsuchiura ( Read more... )

From Bunker last Friday:


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When we went to Kyoto/Osaka to visit Dave and the Love Hotel, I conveniently left my 2Gb camera card at Adam's. I could take a total of 18 images on my camera's drive, but without my cable (also forgotten...in the US), I couldn't extract them until we got home ( Read more... )

I've been trying to upload these pictures for the past hour on this slwo ass computer in a bank somewhere in a more civilized part of the island (and hours walk over hills and through jungle from our beach), while singing at Ground Control over Skype. Thanks to all who stayed late to hear us. Whoo-hoo ( Read more... )

I could tell you all about the buttloads of temples and shrines and mausoleums (to the first Tokugawa shoguns) that we visited in Nikko. I could also tell you about the amazing Ryokan hotel we stayed at with Futon Ninja and outdoor hot springs surrounded by dense forest ( Read more... )

So, we've been staying with _beal_ while in Tokyo (just returned from a blur of fun in Kyoto where we had some back-alley Kyoto ramen and Osaka where we found the Hello Kitty Love Hotel). He was kind enough to let us use his futons during our visit ( Read more... )