Destination: Japan

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Tokyo

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 | By greenalligator | Views [4299] | Comments [3]

6am and I am standing in Tokyo train station, pretty much alone. I discovered quickly that its incredibly hard to squeeze into a toilet cubicle the size of a phone box with a 75 litre pack and two additional day packs. I sat in the foyer and ate my ... Read more >

Thinking of moving to Japan?

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 | By kurenai | Views [4186] | Comments [1]

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: concert, culture, festival, japan, living, teaching, travel

TOKYO: Meeting Chatou & Chasing Cherry Blossoms

Fri, 24 Apr 2015 | By vivi_and_robrob | Views [1543] | Comments [2]

Hello, Helo, Hola and Konnichiwa! We are here in Japan and loving it, here are a few of the things that have happened so far.. Walking like a zombie pack horse from the redeye flight from Colombo, Sri Lanka, towards the immigration desk, ... Read more >

Tags: action, advntrs, japan, japan2015, tokyo

Tokyo, Japan

Sat, 13 Sep 2014 | By lmatejak99 | Views [1043] | Comments [1]

After four awesome days in Kyoto, Blair and I take the bullet train back to Tokyo. The ride is just under three hours and goes through beautiful, mountainous regions covered in lush green forests. Off in the distance we catch an unobstructed ... Read more >

About this trip

Tue, 22 Sep 2015 | By monika | Views [693]

Finally - a blog. After exactly three weeks in Japan I have time to write this. What kept me busy will be revealed in the (hopefully) near future. In the last few months people kept asking the same questions over and over again, but unfortunately ... Read more >

The Onsen in the storm

Mon, 30 Jul 2018 | By chloebruce | Views [650]

It has rained all day today. Being the UK that shouldn’t be even worthy of mention, but it is the relieving cleanse of heavy rain after an uneasy prolonged heatwave, so with relief I say, it has rained all day today. Whenever it rains now, I mean ... Read more >

Tags: arashiyama, female empowerment, japan, kyoto, onsen

2009

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 | By peter_allen | Views [602] | Comments [1]

It's snowing, I mean it's really coming down in huge flakes outside, I can't believe yesterday it was so hot I completely forgot to take my jacket to the airport. I'm at my desk in Kurohone, but here is something I wrote last night at Sydney airport.... Read more >

Don't travel stupidly

Thu, 8 May 2014 | By vincci-lwc | Views [381]

Just three days after public exam, we, four of us, packed our bags and went to Osaka for a short vacation. To save trouble, we joined a tour organized by our local travel agency in advance, which I think was a stupid idea. Whatever, it turned out that ... Read more >

Tags: japan, local life, short vacation

Through the womb of Buddha

Tue, 26 May 2015 | By | Views [355] | Scholarship Entry

It was the second time I had been to Kiyomizudera. This was one of the places my office spouse and I had decided that no one should miss in Kyoto, and so we took my adopted sister here. Coming here in summer was quite a different deal to visiting Kiyomizu ... Read more >

Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship

Japan | ??

Sat, 29 Aug 2015 | By jamesbernal | Views [344] | Video | Scholarship Entry

My parents emigrated to the US from Colombia, and I've always had one foot in each country, both culturally and mentally. I've been looking for ways to travel back with more frequency and produce work that captures the experience of traveling through ... Read more >

Tags: 2015 Film Scholarship to Colombia