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Japan Day 10
Posted by Mark | Filed under Travel
Today, we hit 3 temples over in the Kamakura region. And since I’m feeling lazy, I’m just going to post some bullet points about them for now: Hasudera: MASSIVE Buddha Great pictures thanks to cooperative sky HOT, HOT walk to Buddha Temple 2: Japanese shrine (maybe Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine?) BLOODY MISERABLE HEAT and stairs on walk up […]
Tags: Apple, dinner, flying, Japan, shopping, thanks, writing
Japan Day 9
Posted by Mark | Filed under Travel
This morning was another sweltering day and after a short hop on the train; we walked up to Osamu Tezuka Productions. When you first step off the street towards their door; there’s a marble (maybe granite) status of Astro Boy. Then you walk inside and immediately you’re surrounded by merchandise, mostly from Astro Boy but […]
Tags: dinner, Food, geek, HAL, Japan, mental, office, series, sleep, videos, writing
Japan Day 8
Posted by Mark | Filed under Travel
Homestay Day 2 We slept fairly late and then R & M made us brunch. A massive salad with tomatoes and onion, eggs, sausage, fatty ham patties and fresh fruit. After we lazily ate breakfast, they took us to a nearby beach. M-san warned us first that the water was very dirty but we had […]
Tags: Amana, Apple, breakfast, family, home, Japan, sound, water, writing
Japan Day 7
Posted by Mark | Filed under Travel
Homestay, day 1 We got ourselves checked out of the hotel this morning and I found that calls to the US must be around $1/minute, as I’d called Ariesna a couple of times and hadn’t spoken all that long but the bill was rather high. After we were all checked out, we walked down to […]
Tags: dinner, family, Food, foreign, home, Japan, Movies, offer, Politics, problem, sleep
Japan Day 6
Posted by Mark | Filed under Travel
Today, we went to see the animation exhibit at Museum of Contempary Art Tokyo (MOT). It was a good exhibit but our translator was using a quiet voice while there were animated bits blasting out their music and voices, making her hard to hear. The exhibit covered Japanese animation from it’s very beginnings1 to the […]
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