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Fri, 17 Mar 2006 | By smelt_and_gizzard | Photo Gallery
just a test run to see how this web journal works. our last few weeks in tokyo...
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Fri, 3 Mar 2006 | By dan_in_japan | Views [672]
New photos of all this Jazz in Tokyo. Check out the concept cars! Last Saturday was spent wandering Tokyo with Kyoko-san. Before I get into that however, I have gotten my test score back. Broken down into two parts, I got 65% in the writing, and ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Mon, 20 Feb 2006 | By dan_in_japan | Views [973] | Comments [5]
There is now a Vietnam pictures folder, as well as new pictures in the Tokyo folder. There is also a folder for Kamikura. On Sunday I was invited by Eriko to visit Kamakura. Eriko is Japanese, and although she was born on an island near Okinawa, ... Read more >
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Fri, 17 Feb 2006 | By dan_in_japan | Views [7480] | Comments [2]
Hirakana script table. Hello all, It's been a while since my last post! This is due in no small part to an examination that I have been working towards, which will be held tomorrow. This exam is taking place at the half-way point of the beginners ... Read more >
Tags: Work
Sun, 5 Feb 2006 | By dan_in_japan | Views [790]
With my bank balance diminishing with seemingly with every day that passess, and also in no small part to HSBCs scandalous withdrawal rates (3.91 to withdraw 300 pounds- Nationwide here I come), it's high time I got my finger out and started looking ... Read more >
Tags: Budgets & money
Mon, 23 Jan 2006 | By dan_in_japan | Views [19734] | Comments [3]
(There is a new Lao photo folder). There is a district of Tokyo called Harajuku, which is famous for many things. There is the majestic Meiji shrine, with it's splendid gardens, which looked all the better for the snow whilst I was there. There are ... Read more >
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Thu, 19 Jan 2006 | By dan_in_japan | Photo Gallery
The land of a thousand elephants
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Wed, 18 Jan 2006 | By dan_in_japan | Views [946]
Hi all, There are new files / pictures of "Cambodia", "Tokyo Karaoke" and "Tokyo" uploaded in the gallery. Just a quick note to let you know that I am settling in nicely. I am on my second week now and slowly but surely, ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Wed, 18 Jan 2006 | By dan_in_japan | Photo Gallery
All things Tokyo and around
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Sun, 15 Jan 2006 | By dan_in_japan | Photo Gallery
From Cambodia
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Thu, 12 Jan 2006 | By dan_in_japan | Views [899]
Hi all, here's another post from the land of the rising sun.... I want to say a word or two about the (in)famous Japanese subway. You probably all know that it is the busiest in the world, moving practically millions of people from the 'burbs into ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Wed, 11 Jan 2006 | By dan_in_japan | Views [1059] | Comments [4]
Hi all, It's been a fair few days since my last entry, you'll see now that the journal title for trips has changed- now I am in Tokyo, Japan, having started my language course. I intend to write an entry to wrap up all things South East Asia, but at ... Read more >
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Sun, 9 Oct 2005 | By stock_market_nomad | Views [778]
Ukiyo-e woodblock prints are some of the most well-known examples of Japanese art in the West. Mostly made during the Edo period of Japan, two of the heavyweights in this artistic arena are: Hokusai "Thirty-six Views of Mt Fuji" The most ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Thu, 15 Sep 2005 | By w4michael | Views [457]
September–October 2005
Tokyo – Kyoto – Osaka – Kobe – Beppu – Hiroshima – Matsuyama – Takamatsu – Okayama – Nagano – Mt. Fuji – Tokyo Entire trip was taken by train.
Sun, 7 Aug 2005 | By stock_market_nomad | Views [835]
After reading about it, watching it on TV, and otherwise learning about this futuristic city from afar, I would finally get to see it with my own eyes. There I was, leaving Yokosuka and its naval base on the train bound for Tokyo. Familiar names along ... Read more >
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