Archive for the ‘Japan: exposed’ Category
Didn’t have much time to browse through my pictures so I’m showing you this “small/mini” Tokyo: Miniatures of the places near Tokyo TowerI wanted to take a picture of the small Tokyo tower but my cellphone’s camera couldn’t zoom in enough. Please see the post about these miniatures HERE. As always, thank you very much [...]
I just love Sakura (Cherry Blossoms)… well who wouldn’t? I’m really crazy about them that I went Sakura Hunting with friends. For more pictures, here are the two posts on our Sakura adventures: Part 1 Part 2
I was originally planning on posting this one…You got it right! I want to start a campaign against bicycle violence… just kidding. ^-^ It’s just that almost every time I pick up my bike from the train station, I find it lying on the ground. And just recently, its bell was broken and I had [...]
This is the sh?tengai (???) in Sannomiya, Kobe. If you’re visiting a certain place in Japan that has no malls, don’t fret. Most likely, it has a sh?tengai – a commercial district that usually connects to a train station. Connected – meaning, you could find your way to the station by just following the arrows. [...]
From The New York Times:“Third Quake in Two Days Rocks Coast of Indonesia”. More troubling report from the Japan Times: “…there is a 30 percent chance of a magnitude 6.7 to 7.2 tremor occurring in the tectonic plates of the southern Kanto region within the next decade, and a 70 percent chance within the next [...]
This sight greets me daily at the Shin Osaka station:I used to leave my bike in this area but it just accumulated more dents and scratches. Luckily, there’s still a decent space in this chaos where I’m sure to find it still standing at the end of the day…Mine is the blue one.
Near Seishin Chuo train station:Women and children donning their yukatas is the sight I love most here in Japan. Plus, seeing them dancing beneath the paper lanterns … what a refreshing sight! These are some of the “positive” indicators that I am really here in the Land of the Rising Sun. (I consider the unreadable [...]
It may appear safe here but I always make sure that the door is locked. And if everyone’s already inside, I always check if the door is chained. I got even more paranoid because of an incident which happened almost a year ago. A guy entered our apartment using a copy of our key! We [...]
A middle-aged couple stepped on the escalator. The man took the right side, while the woman took the left side… Man: Chigau yo! (You’re wrong)Woman: Ehhh? (What?)Man: Osaka wa… (In Osaka…) At first, I found this escalator’s “lanes” concept weird but I now find it convenient. It’s an unwritten rule, but there are fast and [...]
I was on a train to Kobe… Stop 1: A man in wheel chair accompanied by a woman boarded the train, assisted by a station staff. That’s very nice. I’ve always been impressed by how Japan treat people with disabilities (PWDs). A few minutes later, I heard the announcement that we were approaching the next [...]
Usually, big enterprises rely on the TV to promote their products, while the smaller ones rely on the newspapers. But here in Japan, both huge and small companies give away stuffs to advertise their products and services. Commonly, these are small packs of facial tissues. But on summer, they give away small things that people [...]
I might have grown up in a tropical country but summer here in Japan is I think, hotter than that of the Philippines. Back there, I could still wear long sleeves to work (even in Manila) without worrying about an ugly sight when I raise my arms! At least in there you could still feel [...]
