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WORLDWIDE | Thu, 5 Nov 2009 | By scholarships | Views [16696] | Comments [28]
Do you want to be a published travel writer? Go on assignment to Tokyo with Rough Guides! Kick start your travel writing career by going on assignment to Tokyo, Japan. After touching base with your travel writing mentor, Simon Richmond, you ... Read more >
Tags: travel writing scholarship, japan, tokyo, rough guides, intrepid travel, hotels.com, simo richmond
JAPAN | Thu, 17 Sep 2009 | By worldfestivals | Views [81] | Video
Location: Kyoto Gosho, Kyoto, Japan Dates: 22 October Level of Participation: 2 – shed a tear for Kyoto’s former glory Description: Compared with the former Japanese capital’s other major ... Read more >
Tags: japan, festival of the ages, jidai matsuri, world festivals
VIETNAM | Mon, 31 Aug 2009 | By maranathahay | Views [108]
August 31st, 2009 This place is breathtaking. Craggy rocks covered in green jut out of jet blue waters. Today we swam in salt water that was so warm, it was like a bathtub. Throughout the day, we hiked through a cave, kayaked, and ate a lot of seafood.... Read more >
Tags: good bye, los angeles, narita, japan, halong bay, seafood, kayak, cave, health insurance
JAPAN | Fri, 14 Aug 2009 | By koudee | Views [84] | Comments [2]
A electric tingle shot down my fingers as I rolled the choice over in my mind. What would happen if my parents found out!? "Its japan, no~one has to know .". I felt the anticipation reach across my gut and tighten. "You’re growing up"... Read more >
Tags: japan, tokyo, gundam
JAPAN | Fri, 31 Jul 2009 | By klynne | Views [95]
“Mommy, I am tired of having cereal for breakfast,” said SB as he sat slumped over his bowl and I was trying to pack suitcases before rushing off to work. “Uh, I think in about two weeks you will be wishing for that bowl of cereal,” I answered. We are ... Read more >
Tags: packing, japan, leaving
JAPAN | Sat, 27 Jun 2009 | By worldfestivals | Views [221]
Gion Marsuri. Photo by [MShades], Flickr.com Location: Shijo-dori, Kyoto, Japan Date: 17 July Level of Participation: 2 – be thankful your not chigo Description: Japanese culture often confuses the outsider and Kyoto’s multifaceted float ... Read more >
Tags: japan, gion matsuri, world festivals
JAPAN | Tue, 16 Jun 2009 | By kurenai | Views [91]
I’m sitting here at my computer on the very last night that
I’ll live here in Japan.
It’s such a crazy bitter-sweet feeling. I’ve had so many amazing experiences
here as well as so many wretched stories as well. It has been one wild
rollercoaster ... Read more >
Tags: japan, osaka, life, sayonara
JAPAN | Thu, 14 May 2009 | By kurenai | Views [270] | Comments [1]
Well, that’s what it says on the front of the English
brochure handed to me at Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan. Engrish at it’s best.
During Golden Week (Japan’s
spring break) one of my friends came over from Nagoya
and we decided to ... Read more >
Tags: japan, osaka, aquarium, kaiyukan, fish, shark, penguin, otters, dolphins, jellyfish
JAPAN | Mon, 13 Apr 2009 | By itinerant | Views [77]
For this trip I’m consulting Fodor’s, and National Geographic, instead of the usual Rough Guides and Lonely Planet. And to get into the mood for Japan I opened Kurosawa’s Something Like an Autobiography , and went up to page twenty-five today. He ... Read more >
Tags: japan, kurosawa
JAPAN | Sun, 12 Apr 2009 | By itinerant | Views [110]
It isn't so long ago that I went to Istanbul, and although—to enhance my experience—I read Orhan Pamuk ahead of my departure and Pierre Loti while in Istanbul, the memories of the time spent there are fading, leaving behind static images of this ... Read more >
Tags: japan, tokyo, kyoto, istanbul
JAPAN | Sat, 11 Apr 2009 | By kurenai | Views [136]
Today was a roaming day, and a bit far from my normal
grounds: I went to Himeji
in Hyogo prefecture. I left my apartment at 9:30 am to be in Himeji by 11 so I could meet my friend at the
station. We headed straight into the Himeji
tourist ... Read more >
Tags: japan, himeji, castle, culture, tradition, sakura, cherry blossom, spring, temple, park
JAPAN | Wed, 8 Apr 2009 | By kurenai | Views [1211]
So Saturday night – or rather early Sunday morning – a couple
of Western friends and I decided to visit a host club. For 3 of us (myself
included) this was our first step into the dark and mysterious world of hosting
but the last of our group ... Read more >
Tags: japan, osaka, host club, nightlife
JAPAN | Fri, 27 Mar 2009 | By kurenai | Views [156]
Sumo season is here in Osaka
and with it comes bustling crowds of people in an already bustling part of a
busy city (Namba). This is probably the strangest time for a foreigner to live
in Osaka because not only are you repeatedly mistaken for ... Read more >
Tags: japan, osaka, culture, tradition, sumo, spring
JAPAN | Mon, 23 Mar 2009 | By kurenai | Views [289]
A midnight in a cemetery?! Well, not quite. Rather inside
the bottom basement floor of a smoky dark club. I give you Midnight Necropolis:
the gothic club night that happens once a month here in Osaka. While the name and “theme” changes
(Black ... Read more >
Tags: japan, clubbing, goth, gothic, osaka, nightlife, fashion
JAPAN | Sun, 1 Mar 2009 | By kurenai | Views [553]
My friend and I felt the need for a little bit of culture so
we headed over to the National Museum of Art in Osaka. Leaving Higobashi exit 3 (on the blue
Yotsubashi subway line) we followed a map directly outside the station to the
museum. ... Read more >
Tags: japan, osaka, museum, art, culture, contemporary, kanji, china
JAPAN | Mon, 23 Feb 2009 | By kurenai | Views [156]
The Pirates of the Dotonbori, that is, an Osaka-based improvisation
group who put on shows at various venues throughout the year. Think of a
local-based “ Whose Line Is It Anyway? ” show and that’s what these guys are
except their shows are ... Read more >
Tags: japan, osaka, comedy, club, improv, improvisation
JAPAN | Mon, 16 Feb 2009 | By worldfestivals | Views [351] | Video
Location: Throughout Japan, but especially good at Yoshino Dates: Cherry blossoms can begin to appear in Okinawa as early as January and not until May in Hokkaido, but through the bulk of the country they’re usually in flower near the end of March.... Read more >
Tags: japan, cherry blossoms, hanami, world festivals, yoshino
JAPAN | Wed, 4 Feb 2009 | By kurenai | Views [152]
How was Nagoya
you ask?
Well, first off, thanks for asking and secondly, it was
quite nice.
My friend Alicia and I grabbed the express Kintetsu Urban Liner from Namba to Nagoya which
runs every thirty minutes, takes ... Read more >
Tags: japan, nagoya, atsuta shrine, castle, setsubun
JAPAN | Sun, 1 Feb 2009 | By kurenai | Views [684] | Comments [1]
Gackt: Requiem et Reminiscence II ～再生と邂逅～ (Rebirth and Reunion) - Nagoya, 2009.1.30
Say who? Gah-coo-toe , as the Japanese like to
pronounce his name, is a very famous visual rock/pop star in Japan who is
also decently ... Read more >
Tags: japan, nagoya, gackt, visual kei, jrock, concert, bunraku movie
JAPAN | Thu, 29 Jan 2009 | By worldfestivals | Views [338] | Video
Location: Kannon-in temple, Saidai-ji, Japan Dates: Third Saturday in February Level of Participation: 5 – men are free to join in the violent battle Description: Naked Festivals are common (if a little overstated, since participants wear ... Read more >
Tags: japan, naked festival, world festivals
JAPAN | Mon, 26 Jan 2009 | By kurenai | Views [229]
Bunraku –
boon-rah-coo – or traditional Japanese puppet theater was founded in Osaka in
1684, though apparently established as the form we know today coming about in 1872 (I’m quoting the Wiki here). Bunraku contains the puppeteers (the ... Read more >
Tags: japan, culture, theater, osaka, puppet, winter, new years
JAPAN | Sun, 18 Jan 2009 | By kurenai | Views [305]
My thoughts of Japan throughout the past year of living here; the good, the bad, the strange and ugly. Japan is a land of extremes: from
the obsessive otaku s to the overly
frilly maid café dresses, the made-up high school girls with their ... Read more >
Tags: japan, teaching, living, culture, festival, concert, travel
JAPAN | Sun, 11 Jan 2009 | By kurenai | Views [243]
I visited my first trance club here in Japan over in the well-known Amemura in Osaka’s Shinsaibashi. Wait,
according to the flyer it was called “super trance” (whatever that means) at a
venue called Club Joule (http://www.club-joule.co.jp/) ... Read more >
Tags: japan, clubbing, osaka, nightlife
THAILAND | Wed, 7 Jan 2009 | By glimmerwing | Views [178] | Comments [1]
On the bus to Thailand, I ended up sitting beside a Japanese man, Mr. nobuta. Finding out I was from Ireland, he knew all about Irish dancing and said “you dance with just your feet”. He was on the bus with his wife and daughter Anna and they were heading ... Read more >
Tags: japan, japanese, khon kaen, sukhothai, phitsanlok
JAPAN | Sat, 3 Jan 2009 | By kurenai | Views [213]
What is a fukubukuro
you ask? It is a “Lucky Bag” full of winter goodies from all your favorite
stores; what’s left over because in Japan New Years is a time of
cleansing and renewal and old clothes and accessories must go!! Many stores
throughout ... Read more >
Tags: japan, shopping, lucky bag, fukubukuro, fashion, osaka, new years, winter
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