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Fri, 24 Nov 2006 | By dan_in_japan | Views [2365] | Comments [1]
So I had the pleasure of heading down to the local police station a few weeks ago because my bike got stolen. I kind of inherited the bike from another guy who had gone back to America, so I wasn't too destroyed over it, but it was still a wrench to ... Read more >
Tags: Scams & Robberies
Mon, 15 Sep 2014 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [1735]
Tokyo at last! I’ve finally reached Japan, as my 30th country a week before my 30th birthday! Getting here was no easy feat though. It was my first experience flying with JetStar and my first time on the Boeing 787, better known as the ... Read more >
Fri, 24 Apr 2015 | By vivi_and_robrob | Views [1539] | 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
Sat, 12 Apr 2008 | By shanglee | Views [1323]
The day has come to try the REAL raw fish. Throughout my short stay in Tokyo, I've been dreading this day. Tokyo has been a wonderful city. To me, Tokyo is bright lights, pretty girls and the city that never sleeps, well part of the city anyway -... Read more >
Tags: food, japan, tokyo, walk
Tue, 7 Sep 2010 | By snowlindsay | Views [946]
The food in Japan. Coming from Australia a Japanese lunch of sushi, sashimi, tempura and chicken katsu were the norm. Sushi train! What a great idea... I have now been living in Yokohama for 10 months and to be honest... I am a bit over the food. ... Read more >
Tags: japanese food, minatomirai, motomachi, restaurants, yokohama
Fri, 2 May 2014 | By map7 | Views [712]
Got to Japan at 6am, and took a train to Ueno to find our accommodation. We found a hot coffee in a can out of a vending machine called 'fire' it's the best! We later found that you need a few these per day just to get through Tokyo.
Second ... Read more >
Tue, 23 Oct 2007 | By spongey | Views [519]
less jet lag today, just a short note to state i am taking photos but my access here is metered... im shopping round for somewhere cheaply to upload photos so yes you will see more gomez!
Tags: The Planning Phase
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 | By peter_allen | Views [486] | Comments [2]
I have done around 300kms on the bike since Saturday afternoon, which considering the low speed limits here is quite a lot of riding. I am starting to get back some confidence, unfortunately the helmet I ordered hasn't arrived yet, the shop owner ... Read more >
Wed, 24 Feb 2016 | By kakimono | Views [396]
After two hours of class on Wednesday, were were set loose on the world to work on our project. Since we're in the data collection stage, this meant finding willing volunteers (read: gullible victims) and giving them a survey and interview. So Dan and ... Read more >
Tags: literature, proejct, survey
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
Sat, 7 Jan 2017 | By caessar_aug | Photo Gallery
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Wed, 3 Mar 2010 | By kitschey | Photo Gallery
First stop in Japan
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Mon, 24 Nov 2014 | By enplim | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
Working in the field of Instrumentation and Control, I have been sent to several places across the globe to test instruments other equipment for power plants. During the construction period, where everything was still a mess, we had to crawl through ...
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Tags: 2014 travel photography scholarship