Wednesday night running
On Wednesday evenings after work, I’ve started running around Yoyogi Park with the Namban Rengo running club.  Everyone meets up at Oda F....
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Quick melt
Daylight, and it’s all gone.  As I predicted, it didn’t last very long.  It would have been nice to experience going to work in the sn....
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Shibuya in the snow
Shibuya (and no doubt the rest of Tokyo) has been covered with a layer of snow tonight.  As I was writing my previous post, it was really b....
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Snowing in Tokyo
It’s snowing in Tokyo!!  Tonight, about 3cm (so far, at 11:30pm) has fallen, and things have turned white.  I took some photos on my wa....
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Winter hike to Kawanori-san
On those crisp and clear winter days that Tokyo puts on so well, there’s no better place to be than up a mountain.  I was keen to head ou....
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Akemashite omedeto gozaimasu
A belated happy new year.  新年にあけましておめでとうございます。今年も宜しくお願いしますね。Another year ....
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Advertising cacophany
Japan can be such a noisy country at times, especially the major retail and commercial districts.  I sometimes wonder whether the concept o....
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Hakuba
I’m on the slopes at Hakuba Cortina resort, ticking a ski lesson with some elementary school kids. How many times will I fall over? ....
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Ear wax
This is a tragic story, but one that seems so improbable that I couldn’t possibly have made it up.  It involves a double murder, a blaze ....
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Yakiniku
Friday night dinner at a yakiniku restaurant. Share: Related posts:Failed mobile phone uploads  I’m ha....
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Renewable energy streetlights
I found these solar and wind powered street lights around Kagurazaka district of Tokyo yesterday. They look pretty clever. Share: ....
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Creative car parking solution
When you need to find a way to get your car out of the way, why not hoist it up so that you can use all the space underneath?  Pity the gar....
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Boating on the moat
I’m having am enjoyable afternoon boating on the outer moat near Kagurazaka in the winter sunshine.   Share: ....
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Have an adjectival Christmas
Christmas in Japan brings elaborate and beautiful decorations and displays, perhaps even of a higher quality than other countries that tradi....
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Shinkansen day trip
If the weather is clear, the view of Mt Fuji from the Tokaido shinkansen can be very good.  I recently had a day trip from Tokyo to Gifu, a....
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Banana in a bag
My local supermarket sells single bananas, nicely wrapped up in plastic packaging.  This banana is labelled “プレシャス” (Preciou....
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Yoyogi Park didgeridoo players
All sorts of performances and displays can be found in Yoyogi Park on a Sunday afternoon.  Even then, I was surprised to find a bit of l....
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Ginkgo trees
Ginkgo trees (ichou 銀杏) turn a resplendant bright yellow in autumn.  The ginkgo trees in Hibiya Park are looking rather impressive this....
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Political sound trucks
On my way from the office yesterday, I found the Japanese opposition leader, Mr Tanigaki, atop a minibus parked outside Shimbashi Station, ....
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Vivid autumn in Nara
The Japanese love their four seasons.  So unique, some people apparently think, that I’ve sometimes been asked whether or not my country....
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Unagi restaurant
A week or so ago, I went with friends to a old Edo era restaurant, in a kura style building. It was just near Tokyo Tower, which for some r....
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Traffic jam to the mountaintop
I’m sure many people could smugly tell me that a sunny Sunday in the peak of autumn is NOT the right day to visit Hakone for solitude. ....
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Through the snow to the Falcon’s Nest
Ever wanted a falcon’s view of Mt Fuji and the surrounding ranges?  Takanosu-yama (鷹ノ巣山) – translated as Falcon’s Nest Moun....
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Motomachi in Yokohama – old foreign quarter
On Halloween, that spooky foreign day on which all Japanese kids seem to dress up in super cute witches and warlocks costumes, I headed do....
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