Hiroshima
Woke up early today and caught the train to Hiroshima… sounds simple? Not really… first went to the Shinjuku Station at 8am. The JR exchange office only opened at 11 so I had to go to Tokyo Statio...
Posts from July 2007
Night shot in Tokyo
Just played around with the view from Max’s apt yesterday night. Legacy links from the original WordPress post http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf http://www.macromedia.com/go/g...
More Tokyo
Today I went on the bike to the Shinjuku Gardens, Imperial Palace, Ginza, Hama-rikyu Gardens and the Tokyo Dome (by mistake). Inside the Shijuku Garden there is an active temple where people go to pra...
ITP videos
Great collection of almost all of the projects of the ITP Spring 2007 show: http://itp.nyu.edu/sigs/showvideos/ ...
Other side of the world
So I was wondering what is exactly opposite to Tokyo in the world… First I found out that this is called the antipodal point. Turns out that the calculation is pretty simple. - The new latitude will...
Tokyo day 1 and 2
First night in town Max, Anais and I went out for dinner at Ropongi. We picked a random place and had some great skewers. The subway system here is incredible and easy to use. Taxis are outrageously e...
Tokyo!
So finally in Tokyo - this was the place the one that motivated me to go on this entire trip to tell you the truth… well, this and going to Portugal and Barcelona to visit my friends and cousin. Wok...
Internet Speed in Japan
Wow… had read about how fast the average broadband speed in Japan is the highest in the world… check this out: As a comparison, in NY my download is around 5 megabits and upload is 800 kilobits. ...
Beijing Summary
Wow… lots to say here since my last entry… First of all here are some pictures of the Forbidden City. Just getting there was tough - I had to know the name of it in Chinese so that people would kn...
Beijing
Now in Beijing - crazy city - full of smog, people, cars, and bycicles. I decided not to unpack my bike once again because it is just too crazy and if I get lost there would be no way to ask for direc...