Tokyo Winter 2008 Day 5
Day 5, first night in “KS house” hostel. Shared the room with 4 “ABC” dudes traveling together, really weird accents. One of them kept saying “Ozawa! Ozawa!” when we got back to the room last night....
View ArticleTokyo Autumn 2008 Day 10
Day 10 of 14, amazingly, it DID NOT RAIN TODAY! The skies were still cloudy, but heck, as long as it’s doesn’t rain. More urban exploration as we powered through Tokyo Tower to the 3 shopping areas,...
View ArticleTokyo Business Trip 2008 Day 3
Had an early breakfast again on Saturday, day 3 of my short trip to Tokyo. Today the whole lot of us were visiting the Jet Graphics studio at Shinjuku. Since Shinjuku was really just two stops away...
View ArticleTokyo Spring 2010 Day 4 (SHO ver)
Day 4. Didn’t make plans for today so after breakfast in the morning, we headed back to Harajuku. MJ was still high after last night’s Morning Musume concert and wanted to return to the ticket store to...
View ArticleTokyo Spring 2010 Day 9 (MJ ver)
Otaku Shopping~! Highlights today, Otaku shopping! Akihabara was on the list this morning. Everyone got their toys today! Wilson super fast. He went into one of the stores and immediately disappeared,...
View ArticleTokyo Spring 2010 Day 9 (SHO ver)
According to our plans, today was the day that we were to visit Hakone. Unfortunately, the hurricane carried over to this morning and the heavy rain continued to fall. Our only consolation was that the...
View ArticleAkihabara Gundam Cafe and Bar
A friend of mine who’s a big Gundam fan wanted to share his recent experience at the Gundam Cafe and Bar in Akihabara. With that idea in mind, he continued to snap away while visiting the anime shrine...
View ArticleAkihabara
Akihabara definitely ranks alongside Harajuku and Shibuya as the districts most recognized by tourists. There has never been any shortage of international coverage, which often plays up Akihabara (like...
View ArticleAkihabara Pedestrian Heaven Reopens!
Three years after the fatal Akihabara massacre, the world famous otaku paradise will return to being a Pedestrian Heaven starting this Sunday, 3rd of July. Since 1973, Akihabara was one of Tokyo’s...
View ArticleTokyo Winter 2012 Day 6
First up, I would like to apologize for today’s lack of quality and quantity of photos. Today we made our way down to Shinjuku BLAZE for the awaited SUPERGiRLS concert. Most of the day would be spent...
View ArticleManneken
If you’ve been following this site or my Twitter, you’d probably heard these glorious waffles mentioned many a time already. But we’ve have yet to feature Manneken on its own post that it so deserves....
View ArticleDenpa Gumi.inc
If you’ve been following the feed over at my twitter, then you’ve likely heard a little about this idol group that has recently caught my attention, Dempagumi.inc. Dempagumi.inc is brought to you by...
View ArticleTokyo Autumn 2012 Day 13
After boarding our bus, we spent the rest of the night, or rather morning enroute to Tokyo. The Willer Express coach bus that we were taking was surprisingly comfortable, so for once I managed to catch...
View ArticleTokyo Autumn 2012 Day 14
As discussed last night, we’ll be spending most of this afternoon shopping over at Ginza and then seeing what that led to. Had taken note before the trip that the Tori no Ichi festivities would begin...
View ArticleTokyo Autumn 2012 Day 16
Yan and Eri would be heading off earlier this morning for Tokyo DisneySea. In the meantime, I had made plans to have lunch today with my company director last evening. He gave us the option of...
View ArticleTokyo Autumn 2012 Day 22
Today, Yan and I lucked into some tickets for an AKB48 theater show in the evening. I’d have the rest of the day free though. So in the meantime had made plans to meet up with Chisaki to head over once...
View ArticleTokyo Spring 2013 Day 2
Still reeling from the disappointment of missing the Tsukiji tuna auction in the morning, we took the train for tech gadget and anime paradise Akihabara, which would hopefully make the day better....
View ArticleTokyo Winter 2014 Day 11
Though it took more than halfway into the trip, it seems that we were finally kicking into the holiday spirit, being able to finally visit some new sights. This morning we’d wake up relatively early...
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