Oshidori Kakushi Fall


Some Lake in Tateshina


Lobby at Hakone Ginyu, where I stayed in Hakone


Balcony in my ryokan room


Public Bath at Hakone Ginyu


Tatami Hallway

8/12/2009 9:29:56 AM

We had a festival in town the other day:



They're supposed to be Brits





Something tells me he's never been to America, much less NCSU.



I'm just glad these weren't my students



This was the Panasonic dance group. One of these things is not like the others...

8/12/2009 9:52:35 AM

Gundam


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8/15/2009 6:32:31 AM

My pictures are a little over 5 years old, however, here are a few of the more interesting pictures I have.

Tokyo











I'll post more later

8/15/2009 8:12:58 AM

lol I'm going to be across the street from that Takashimaya on Tuesday

8/15/2009 10:18:28 AM

Krispy Kreme?

8/15/2009 10:48:31 AM

haha I'll probably stop by for breakfast before heading to my meeting. I haven't had Krispy Kreme since the last time I had to go to Tokyo on a business trip

8/15/2009 10:57:57 AM

Iwate Prefecture






Kyoto

8/15/2009 4:28:24 PM

Quote :

"Something tells me he's never been to America, much less NCSU."

When I was in Himeji I saw a guy with a Cardinal Gibbons High School t-shirt on. What are the freaking odds of that?

8/15/2009 8:06:13 PM

One day in Kyoto, we saw a guy with an old-school NCSU Jacket that had the old Mr. Wuf strutting his stuff.

I wanted to take that jacket from him.

8/15/2009 8:57:00 PM

When I was in Tokyo, I ran into a guy who went to NCSSM. He was one of the first classes to graduate. He told me that when I got back stateside, too look at the class pictures. He would be the black guy in the middle of the first row. I couldn't believe it. Sure enough, when I went to Watt's Lobby and looked at the old class pictures, he was there! Small world...

8/15/2009 9:09:00 PM

I wish I would have taken pictures when I was in Okinawa. But I didn't

8/15/2009 10:21:54 PM

8/15/2009 10:25:50 PM

Quote :

"When I was in Himeji I saw a guy with a Cardinal Gibbons High School t-shirt on. What are the freaking odds of that?"

Higher than you'd think lol. Goodwill often sells their clothing in bulk that they think they can't sell in America to countries like Japan and China. They in turn sell them as "vintage American goods" for a ridiculous amount of money. The current fashion in Japan is for women to buy used boy scouts shirts and wear them as a dress with a belt over it.

8/16/2009 1:23:05 AM

9/27/2009 11:49:14 AM

the train station in kyoto is awesome, a really beautiful building.

bon odori festival was fun too, we went to gero which is technically the city my brother lives in (he lives in maze right next to hagiware). a little bit sad we didn't have time to go to the onsens since gero is famous for them.

nara was fun, especially getting accosted by deer every few feet

9/27/2009 2:01:33 PM

Quote :

"The current fashion in Japan is for women to buy used boy scouts shirts and wear them as a dress with a belt over it."

NEED SOME PICS OF THIS PHENOMENON

9/27/2009 2:15:38 PM

Bullet Train

10/8/2009 12:23:31 PM

10/8/2009 12:31:10 PM