| 12 Feb 10 |
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When me and my friends were going to Ikebukuro to look up a guest house we forgot to bring a note with the details, so when we got there we only knew the name and that it was somewhere in 2-chome^^ Ev...
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| 10 Feb 10 |
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Japan is well-known for being uniquely weird, but this door found at Hanzomon Station really wins the prize. It actually took me almost a whole month to notice this door, even though I walked past it ...
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| 09 Feb 10 |
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As I was walking towards Ebisu from Shibuya together with two friends, we came across this weird looking building entrance somewhere in Daikan-yama. Either something got lost in translation, or perhap...
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| 08 Feb 10 |
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You might have noticed that when you have created your Japanese iTunes Store account, a lot of the music have romanized song titles and artist names. Now of course, to some, this is a big plus, but fo...
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| 08 Feb 10 |
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Yup, it has already happened, I’ve broken one of my New Year’s resolutions! And as promised, I have to give away a 1500 yen Japanese iTunes Store gift card every time I do so.So which one did I br...
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| 08 Feb 10 |
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UppCon is the biggest Japan and east asian pop culture convention in all of Scandinavia, held in Uppsala, Sweden. This year, UppCon is teaming up with avex to bring some more great Japanese artists an...
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| 03 Feb 10 |
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Went out to meet with some old classmates who’re currently studying in Japan. Ended up at an izakaya in Kichijoji where we had a tabehoudai (eat all you can).Notice that the V-sign pops up automatic...
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| 31 Jan 10 |
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After hanging out on Takeshita Street for a few hours we went back home to leave our stuff and get ourselves ready for Roppongi. Even though many of you told me not to visit Roppongi, I had to see for...
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| 27 Jan 10 |
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After walking through Yoyogi Park and seeing Meiji Shrine, we continued to Takeshita Street in Harajuku for shopping.Takeshita DoriThe symbol of Harajuku and birthplace of many of Japan’s fashion tr...
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| 25 Jan 10 |
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After missing my first meetup because of jet lag I was finally a few days later able to meet up with some friends! This time I met up with Magnus from my old Japanese class and his friend Lisa. As I h...
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| 23 Jan 10 |
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Today I didn’t really have anything special in mind, so I just went out for a walk. I walked towards Hanzomon station at first but when I got there I noticed that there were still one direction I ha...
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| 22 Jan 10 |
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Went to Ikebukuro in hopes of being able to stay there for a while, like you can stay in Shibuya and Akihabaraa whole day. But Ikebukuro is definitely not the same thing. I got the feeling that it’s...
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| 20 Jan 10 |
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So yeah, I finally made it to Akihabara, and it was definitely as amazing as everyone says it is. Unfortunately for you, it was really too much fun for me so I didn’t manage to take a whole lot of p...
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| 18 Jan 10 |
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Went to Harajuku for a little while to check some stores out, will go there gain another time to look for the cosplayers^^Got off at Meiji-Jingumae and walked from there, made a stop at ZARA to compar...
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| 17 Jan 10 |
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Tokyo Tower is definitely a place you have to visit on your first trip to Tokyo. After talking to my friend Dean for a while I decided to spend a whole day there rather than going both there and to th...
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| 16 Jan 10 |
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The rain only lasted for one day so on my third day in Japan I decided to go to Shibuya.Started off at Hanzomon station, first time riding a Japanese train! Thanks to Dean I had an idea of how to buy ...
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| 15 Jan 10 |
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It was raining pretty bad on my second day in Tokyo but I managed to walk around Chiyoda-ku for about 4.5 hours before it got too cold.This crossing is just next to Hanzomon station. Not sure what tho...
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| 13 Jan 10 |
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Sorry, I didn’t take any pictures until I got to the hotel. Will take pics on my way back instead.So I’m finally here! It was a hell of a ride to say the least.So it all started off at Landvetter ...
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| 13 Jan 10 |
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Now that I’ve gotten the trip-here-post over with, I can finally start publishing posts and pictures of Tokyo!The first thing I took a picture of was the view from my room, my room is at the 16th fl...
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| 13 Jan 10 |
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I got a great room at Grand Arc Hanzomon, it’s on the 16th floor and has a great view over Tokyo. Took these photos first thing in the morning today!Early morning, woke up at about 8 AM.Rainy today,...
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