I missed the earthquake!!
This is wierd… as you may know there was an earthquake in Japan today… 6.8 magnitude with epicenter on the northwestern Tokyo region… I did NOT feel it at all!! I saw on the subway that many lin...
Very interesting blog about Tokyo/Japan
Came across this blog http://www.wordpress.tokyotimes.org/ and found it quite interesting. Was talking about all the small differences in culture, signs, behaviors and so on that a Japanese would prob...
Forgot to post this video
This video is on the Kiyomizudera Temple - the one with the dark passage way… on the way down I went through a beautiful cemetery. Legacy links from the original WordPress post ...
Kyoto pictures
So on my last day in Kyoto I went to the Sanjusangendo Temple - one of the largest wooden structures of Japan - over 100 meters long. The name actually means something like 33 spacers in between each ...
Edo-Tokyo Museum
Today I went with Max and Anais to an incredible museum - the Edo-Tokyo Museum. I have never seen a museum with so much information in my life. It was actually exhausting to see and read everything bu...
Back in Tokyo
The rain did not relent in Kyoto - the Typhoon has Japan under water - so I decided to go back to Tokyo to hang with Max and Anais. Went to some temples in the morning, had some lunch and then got the...
Ok... one more bathroom post
OK… one more… very appropriate video being in Japan, seeing all of the “cuteness” that permeates their culture and all of the bathroom posts, here comes a poop training video for Japanese kids...
This is the kind of day I was looking for
Despite the rain, this was the kind of day I was hoping for by traveling alone. It did not start well because the Katsura Imperial Villa I first went to see was closed… plenty of other options, I co...
Quick Morning Entry
Went to breakfast this morning here at the hotel in Hiroshima and all that was being played was Brazilian music… MPB… versions I had never heard before - all excellent renditions of the classics -...
Kyoto - first impressions
Got a hotel close to the train station as it is close to all the buses that go around town. The train station is unbelievable… it’s massive! Walked around to see the temples close to the hotel (To...