Yes, I did pat the statue. At some of the places I visited you had to leave the shoes out. They say Japan is a safe country and I did not mind leaving the shoes there until I saw this sign. And I started to get very worried about my shoes. So sometimes they are…
‘We have only this for dinner, you should have hunted something.’ A Zero
I had the free beer at the restaurant La Flamme d’Or at the Asahi Beer Hall, one of the buildings of the Asahi Breweries. The Asahi Flame is often colloquially referred to as “the golden turd” and the Asahi Beer Hall itself as “poo building” by many Tokyo residents. It was a rainy Saturday taking cover…
‘Freaks’, I did not want to find out what was there: ‘This jelly beverage that can quickly replenish energy. It is best for life in a busy contemporary. Please before it does sports.’ How difficult would it be to ask one of the so many English teachers who are in Japan to check the label? They…
Much has been written about them and I was fascinated also by these ‘contraptions’. Google search for ‘Japanese toilets’ – 136,000 results; ‘American toilets’ – 98,100; ‘German toilets’ – 6,970. I stayed at a friend’s and when I asked about all those buttons he told me not to worry and just showed me the button for flushing…
Tokyo was as I had expected, and I suppose all Asian metropolises look more or less the same (I might be wrong). However, Kyoto was a very nice surprise. It didn’t look like a large Japanese city even if its population is close to 1.5 million. No wonder Kyoto is on the position 12 on…
JR Pass is the famous Japan Rail Pass that can only be purchased abroad and used by foreign tourists and Japanese nationals living in a foreign country. I struggled a lot whether to purchase a JR pass or not driving myself crazy and my wife as well in the process. I made a spreadsheet* having…
Yes, I was so close to him when he visited Canada. I could have shaken hands with him but I thought it was better to let his country fellow men do this. And a few years later I visited Japan (a few posts to follow about the trip to Japan). Emperor Akihito is the only remaining monarch…
Victoria, BC and the Google doodle