So - Friday morning, yet again work takes one for the team since its time to go to the Ward office and pick up my official suspicious immigrant card! So there we went - back to Tokyo tower to the Minato office. It was totally fast and totally painless naturally - so now I’m officially a legit gaijin. EXCEPT - since then I’ve moved out of that ( Read more... )

Well, its Thursday, midweek. Thought I'd make an update. I can now post pictures judiciously since I took the PAIN IN THE ASS extra step of shrinking and compressing each.

As usual I walk to school, greeted by my friend Chucky


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This finally brings me to Sunday. I didn’t do much. I did these posts and spent a large amount of the day trying to figure out the washer. Which I have finally done! You know how appliance manuals are in multiple languages? Don’t complain. Also note the machine is outside on the balcony in the freezing cold. That panel I couldn’t understand ( Read more... )

From there we went to Shibuya - Finally people are keep to party where I live. Shibuya did not disappoint. Look at the pictures above - see those vertical signs? This isn't like cities we are used to - where its shops at ground level then offices above - those signs represent whats on EACH floor of the building - every building has something to ( Read more... )

Saturday morning (which happed at 1pm) was hangover free. Thanks Suntory Dakara Life-Partner electrolyte beverage! That evening I headed out to Akihabara - the last place on my absolutely-must-see list.


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So Friday night, at last. Not that it was a particularly hard week. There are probably about 50 funny things I forgot about that night. After a light Italian dinner (some people here REALLY like eating Italian for some reason) a couple of the LLM students - who are incredibly nice guys - wanted to do so pregaming and had something of a party at ( Read more... )

So yesterday - Snow in Tokyo:


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This brings us, finally, to Yesterday. Morning started with Sumo. Apparently its popularity has been waivering in Japan, so the school had a mess of tickets for us. I started with a very long and confusing trek across town to the arena. I walked in just as a match began, and took some pictures from low level before taking my seat in the ( Read more... )

So Friday night after class - off to diner in Azabu-Juban (fairly near the school).


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Now on to Friday. My day begins with the normal walk, with a few of its own interesting sites. Eg:

Mickey ROCKS!

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