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Wed, 16 Mar 2016 | By kakimono | Views [961]
Following class on Monday, I took the now-familiar train to Nagahoribashi as if I was going to Mondial Kaffee. (Spoiler alert: I wasn’t.) Then I walked the same way I had last time when I was just looking around until I found the Sketchers shop ... Read more >
Tags: chocolate, heart, nanoblocks, shoes
Fri, 8 Aug 2014 | By clare-tamea | Views [709]

The city of Sendai celebrates a love story each August. And everyone loves a good love story!
There seem to be various legends behind it but the one we were told by the Sendai tourist office was this:
According to Chinese legend, two stars, Altair ... Read more >
Tags: japanese festival, sendai tanabata
Tue, 23 Oct 2012 | By chubipower | Views [707]
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
Tue, 22 Sep 2015 | By monika | Views [700]
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 >
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 | By roxyfish | Views [675]
After a lazy day of not much it was time to dress in suitable attire for an evening of fireworks and meet my friends at Wakayama city station. All I can say is WOW, there were so many people doing exactly the same thing I was...yukata's (summer kimono's) ... Read more >
Wed, 29 Jan 2014 | By kpow | Views [545]

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
Sun, 7 Nov 2010 | By deporte8d | Views [310]
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にんにくって、 「ロシアのペニシリン」 って呼ばれてるんだそうですけど、 ほんとに身体にいいんですよね。 鼻づまりのときなんかも、 にんにくをつぶしてガーゼにつつんだものを嗅ぐと、 すぐにおさまります。 試してみてね。 ... Read more >
Tue, 21 Dec 2010 | By abcarlson | Photo Gallery
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Mon, 14 Jan 2013 | By asfalttango | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
I'm an observer always looking for something. Mainly, as sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote, how to: “escape from the commonplaces of existence”. Passionate and pretty much interested in everything. I'm a restless soul that has been running from one shooting ...
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When I started out in photography, a professional sports photographer friend actually asked me what genre I had interested in. My response was Landscape and the irony of this was that I was born and breed in Singapore - a bustling city with almost zero ...
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Tags: Travel Photography Scholarship 2013
Thu, 24 Dec 2009 | By abcarlson | Photo Gallery
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Wed, 21 Jul 2010 | By abcarlson | Photo Gallery
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Tue, 24 Aug 2010 | By abcarlson | Photo Gallery
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Sun, 18 Oct 2015 | By monika | Photo Gallery
Sensoji Temple in Asakusa
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Fri, 15 Jan 2016 | By kakimono | Photo Gallery
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