Posted in Food, Society and Culture, Travel on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
With the exception of beer and grocery shopping, I don’t really count kaimono (literally “buying things”) among my hobbies. However, I must say I had a fine time shopping in Tokyo, mostly because I visited two markets that catered to a couple of my principal materialist pursuits: New Balance sneakers and exciting food.
The first market [...]
Posted in Art, Film, Food, History, Society and Culture, Travel on Thursday, April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Tokyo is much too big to stuff into one, or even two or three blog posts. I have broken down my excursion into six categories and will be posting them as a series over the next couple weeks.
The amount of galleries and museums in Tokyo is almost overwhelming. Even more daunting is the fact that [...]
Posted in Drawings, Food, Parties, Festivals, and Holidays, Society and Culture, Travel on Saturday, March 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After breakfast in Kurokawa, we took another lovely bath, then packed up and left for our next stop: Aso. Our perpetually pleasant innkeeper drove us to the bus stop, and just a few minutes after he dropped us off, he was back again, to give us a complimentary tourist map of Aso! What a guy.
Then [...]
