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Easily one of our favorite districts in Tokyo, Shibuya is, perhaps first and foremost, the pop culture capital of Japan.  From fashion to music to anime/manga, success begins with the blessing of the citizens/regulars of Shibuya.  Virtually THE ENTIRE WARD is for Tokyo's youth (15-25ish)...a really amazing concept that has to be experienced to be ( Read more... )

I've given up trying to present these in any particular order.

While we were in Ginza one afternoon, we stumbled upon a huge crowd of people peering into the window display of a department store at the intersection of Chuo Dori and Harumi Dori (opposite Wako.)  We decided to cross the street to see what the fuss was about and quickly found ourselves ( Read more... )

At the close of every workday since we moved to Lakeview last August, I exit the Purple line train at the Belmont stop and walk east toward the lake front.  It wasn't until yesterday, though, that I took notice of the J. Toguri Mercantile store (which is subtitled "Oriental Gift Shop", ha) on Belmont near Clark and decided to enter rather than walk ( Read more... )

I sent the photo (in the last post) to Cure Rubbish and they wrote me back today:

Hello.
Thank you for a photograph!
Because I want it, please send it. (I offered to send the original, hi-res version if they would like it.)

I send our music if good.
Please answer if I want it.

Thank you for an email.
I do my best from now on!

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I'm exhausted, so the commentary will be light on these (I know, I know...you're devastated.  ;)  This set is kinda random...

Considered the heart of Tokyo, Shinjuku is mostly known for its large entertainment, business and shopping areas surrounding Shinjuku Station, the busiest train station in the world for number of passengers.  Shinjuku has the ( Read more... )

I'd thought by some miracle (since I hit the sack, exhausted, at 9PM last night) that I'd been spared the drama of jetlag.  Silly me.  It's just after 5AM and I've been awake since 1AM.  Oy.  On the bright side, at least I got my +/- eight hours, right?  ;)  (sheesh...inside jokes!)

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Does anyone still say that?

What an incredibly hectic past few days.  We soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo need a vacation...

See you in roughly two weeks.

Oy!  I totally forgot all about posting videos and stuff.  Ah, well...guess that's OK since YouTube doesn't really have most of the stuff I was looking for.  I'll close this out with three favorites:

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Not at all surprised it's the #1 movie at the box office...but damn was it gayer than gay porn.  ha.  :)  I'll save the review/spoilers until certain folks have seen it.  I'll only say: Make it IMAX.


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