 | Japanese Cinema
2005-09-10, Tokyo, Japan. By: travelalex | | As film buffs, we made a few errors in choosing to come to Japan. Firstly Japanese films aren’t subtitled (foreign film are still in English, but we can’t view any local fair). Secondly, we’ve only be... |
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| John’s secret adventure
2005-10-27, Hakone, Japan. By: travelalex | | Well Dad (of the Bradley variety) arrived safe and sound into Japan late Monday night for his second trip to Japan. I’d like to think that he came to visit me, but on his last visit he caught a train ... |
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| How to travel 4,000km in four days
2005-10-28, Hokkaido, Japan. By: travelalex | | What a fantastic trip. And to think that people thought we were crazy for not flying, as if 40 hours and 4,000km of train over 4 days was a lot or something. I’ve included a map that shows where we we... |
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| The Pick of the Litter
2005-11-21, Tokyo, Japan. By: travelalex | | After the success of my 2005 Calender, I’ve been putting the final touches to my highly anticipated 2006 sequel and consequently went down to the 24 hour Kinkos at 3am in the morning and scanned some ... |
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| Christmas Day
2005-12-25, Tokyo, Japan. By: travelalex | | Well I don’t think we’ve ever had a Christmas day like that before in our lives. A number of reasons *might* have contributed to the fact, one might be Heather, one might be winter and one might be th... |
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| Western Honshu Trip
2006-01-01, Honshu, Japan. By: travelalex | | 29/12/05 DAY 1 – Tokyo to Osaka
Weather condition: Dreaming of Snow
OSAKA
Amerika Mura: A very scary and disturbing part of Osaka, “little America”. The streets are lined with shops sporting FUBU... |
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| My dreams have been answered
2006-01-22, Tokyo, Japan. By: travelalex | | I’ve been waiting for this moment since I stepped into the country, all three times. No, it’s not the advent of Godzilla, nor does it have anything to do with a gigantic earthquake destroying all of t... |
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| The best snow in the world
2006-01-28, Niigata, Japan. By: travelalex | | If there was one thing I had to do before I left this country, it was to enjoy what many believe to be the best snow in the world.
First the transport to the feilds are amazing... I caught a Shinke... |
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| Top 5 of Japan
2006-02-08, Tokyo, Japan. By: travelalex | | Whenever anybody left the country from our little Sangubashi community, we could perform the “Top 5 of Japan”. It seams like only yesterday I was performing these quizzes on Zoren and Matthew, last ni... |
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 | Sendai!
2008-02-11, Sendai, Japan. By: jeccojade | | This weekend I went up north to Sendai with Josh and Blake for our 3 day weekend. I went up to crash at Josh's on Friday night so we could get a headstart on Friday night, but Saturday morning was de... |
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 | Judii's Engaged, Blake's Birthday, Setsubun
2008-02-03, Hitachi Omiya, Japan. By: jeccojade | | What a busy weekend!
Went to eat with some of the AET's' on Friday to hear about Judi and her boyfriend Ben's proposal and new engagement! Ben came out to travel with Judi through Japan before she... |
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 | December Highlights
2007-12-31, Mito, Japan. By: jeccojade | | Still getting snail mail from Trish, Anna, and Mike.
Getting Christmas presents and cards from Jenn, Wynne, Anna, Sandra, Phong, Hazel, and Esther. Thanks for the love guys!
Finishing my Christmas s... |
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 | I can open up a noodle shop now....
2008-01-29, Mito, Japan. By: badgerjen | | On Sunday, I woke up early and headed into town....why?!? To take a Japanese cooking class, of course.
Joanna had invited me to sign up for a cooking class at the International Center and I was th... |
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 | Japanese Cooking Class
2008-01-27, Mito, Japan. By: jeccojade | | By Friday I'm so tired from the week, the last thing I want to do is go out into the cold and try to be social. I know that's a bad thing, especially as I was invited to go to Gen's 2 year anniversar... |
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 | Dude.
2006-09-01, Tokyo, Japan. By: dalasnlily | | Dude, where are your pictures from Japan Dallas. |
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 | HItachi Daigo with 3 Guys
2008-01-19, Hitachi Daigo, Japan. By: jeccojade | | Saturday I woke up at Josh's and David Sharp arrived with Steven shortly after. They spent most of the morning playing "Bond" on PS2 (reminding me of old high school days being the only girl...) and w... |
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 | Japan's First Snow!
2008-01-17, Mito, Japan. By: jeccojade | | It snowed this morning!!
Dan got up early to head off to Narita and told me that it had snowed the night before and everything clean and white and freezing!!!
I spent 15 minutes extra biking to... |
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 | Dan Diaz visits
2008-01-16, Mito, Japan. By: jeccojade | | Dan Diaz came to crash in Mito with me from Monday night to Thursday night. He's an acquaintance from Chapman whom we share mutual friends with, but whom I've never actually really sat down and talked... |
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 | Everyday drudgery
2008-01-18, Mito, Japan. By: badgerjen | | I know that I haven't written much lately. I apologize but seriously, it just seems that there isn't all that much to write about.
I mean, I know I'm living in Japan and that should be "exotic"(?)... |
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| Snow!! and Remembrance
2008-01-17, Mito, Japan. By: badgerjen | | I woke up this morning, got ready and headed out the door and............
it had snowed overnight!! I had no idea it was going to snow, and it is unusual for Mito to get snow (so I've been told). B... |
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 | The Seikan Tunnel
2008-01-09, Imabetsu, Japan. By: alfredo | | The Seikan tunnel it is the longest tunnel in the world and it can be crossed by taking a train from Aomori in the north of the Island of Honshu and it goes below the sea to the Island of Hokkaido. I ... |
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| My First Weekend Back
2008-01-12, MIto, Japan. By: jeccojade | | It's weird being back....
How strange it is to have one type of life back at home in LA, with friends, family, my boyfriend, with all sorts of things to do. And then there's another type of life he... |
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| November Highlights
2007-11-30, Mito, Japan. By: jeccojade | | Baking sweet potato in school!
Kamakura, Tokyo Disneyland, and Yokohama with Judi
Drinking boba and eating sesame buns and steamed buns in Yokohama
Travelling to Kyoto and Nara for the fall colors ... |
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