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Thu, 11 Jan 2007 | By dan_in_japan | Views [4262]
(New pictures in Christmas folder) Firstly, Happy New Year! I hope that your 2007 is going well and that already it is better than your 2006- I recently (7th) had my 1 year anniversary here in Japan- I can't believe that a ... Read more >
Tags: Adrenaline
Wed, 14 Nov 2007 | By yasuko | Views [3370]
Kobe , Himeji Castle , (& Okonomiyaki) It’s quite a long time since we were in Kobe and it took us a while to get our bearings. We were looking for our favourite little Okonomiyaki shop where we used to go 35 years ago, but we couldn’t ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Sun, 5 Oct 2008 | By bundynbeaches | Views [1924]
Tacked on to the end of the Hiroshima trip we got a ferry across to the Miajima (I hope I spelt that right) Shrine. It's a very popular, and famous shrine in Japan because the gate is in the sea and the temple is built on platforms on sandflats that ... Read more >
Tags: bridge, eating, shrine, vending machine, waterfall
Sat, 23 Jun 2007 | By dan_in_japan | Views [1426]
I am quite lucky to know a guy called Mike. Having lived in Japan for 15 years, he is my first port of call for any problem I might have. For example, only yesterday he gave me the proper document I need for transferring all my visas into my new ... Read more >
Tags: Friends
Fri, 4 Mar 2016 | By kakimono | Views [771]
Chapter two (which we’ve moved past, but whatever) was about speech styles. It focused for the most part on speech levels, but there was a bit where they discussed other things, such as tanshukukei and shouryaku.
Neither of those are super ... Read more >
Tags: coteaching, ellipses, grammar, japanese
Tue, 23 Oct 2012 | By chubipower | Views [699]
My first glimpse of Osaka is a mass of brownish buildings on a vast piece of flat land... curiously tucked amidst mountainous region and weaving rivers. My 6 hour 25 minute flight to Kansai International Airport was the quietest I ever sat on. There ... Read more >
Tags: japan, kansai, kyoto, nara, osaka
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 | By peter_allen | Views [690]
junior high school sports day was yesterday, it's a weekday so not as big a family affair, a few mothers came along and the local bigwigs I guess. It was a fun day, not as crazy as the elementary event but that's to be expected. I didn't have any actual ... Read more >
Wed, 29 Jan 2014 | By kpow | Views [539]
I'll make the JR Pass the first story, even though I've told most of you about it by now. I still haven't posted many pictures or really given details so here they are! Well, basic ones anyway, there are too many places to give you a full account of ... Read more >
Tags: japan, railpass
Thu, 5 Jun 2008 | By vespertine | Views [435]
(Bashful grin) well, we are in Kyoto now. We were just looking through our dates this morning before we got on the shinkasen (awesome awesome trains!!) and realised our 21 day pass is almost up (hides behind a coffee table in case anyone is booing).... Read more >
Tue, 2 Jun 2009 | By peter_allen | Views [396] | Comments [1]
I got a form today asking for my proposed return date. We get up to one month to stay in Japan, after 30 days they won't pay our airfare home. So I'm saying August 26, that is almost exactly one month after my contract expires. I think it's 2 days ... Read more >
Fri, 6 Aug 2010 | By abcarlson | Photo Gallery
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Wed, 16 Feb 2011 | By arhionut | Photo Gallery
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Fri, 27 Mar 2015 | By gnome-san | Photo Gallery
The first two days
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Tags: coffee, temple
Thu, 3 Sep 2015 | By peerf | Photo Gallery
Pictures from Janne and Peer's trip to Japan 2015
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Mon, 14 Jan 2013 | By follow_my_boots | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
Photography is, for me, being an observer, watch, see and feel. That is why I have chosen to travel and explore the world, the nature, the culture, the people. I just want to memorize and capture an instant, sharing it with other, showing what they can't ...
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Tags: Travel Photography Scholarship 2012