Category: Culture

Justin & Scott woke fairly early, but at 10:30am I was still asleep, so they woke me. We left the hotel bound for Odaiba to see the Gundam

For reasons unknown, I woke especially early – around 6:30am. At 9:45 I walked downstairs to the breakfast buffet in the hotel lobby while Justin & Scott slept

After getting back to the hotel room late after the movie and composing the blog record of the day’s events, I didn’t get to sleep until 5am. So

Since we qualified for only two free breakfast recipients, this morning Scott & Justin went for the morning meal while I remained in the room researching the relevance

Monday morning in Tokyo was cloudy but still warm. Justin, Scott, and I took the shuttle bus from the Hilton Hotel to Shinjuku Station. Once at the station

Justin & Scott woke rather early, but I chose to sleep in a bit. We finally left the hotel at 11am. At the hotel driveway turnabout, my friend

Mornings seem to arrive very early in Tokyo. At 6:30 in the morning, the sun was already high and especially bright, waking all three of us. Each of

All three of us got varying amounts of sleep in the LA Airport Hilton before catching the shuttle bus to the airport. At terminal 4 we approached the

In March 2016 my friends Scott & Justin went to Tokyo for the first time, bringing me along on my ninth, I think, trip. From the outset Scott

Leave it up to Japan to advertise a dictionary as a children’s toy.

As written by New York Magazine, “But, as the internet is finding out today, tanuki are real, and they’re spectacularly cute.” Wait a minute! Was there ever, even

T-minus three months and counting. Probably.

While this video clip isn’t brand new, it may still be enlightening to many of you. After all, it’s a window into contemporary Japanese culture, and Funassyi has

Japan, and Tokyo in particular, has developed a unique, and by American standards, odd, tremendously advanced social and technological culture of enabling millions of tightly packed humans to