One of the great features of many Japanese trains is that the seats always face the driving direction. Personally I’m fine sitting in the opposite direction because I’m usually sleeping anyway. Some trains turn the seats automatically after they’ve reached their final stop, in others it’s done manually. I recorded this video of the NEX, JR East’s airport train.
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Karaoke is either done with friends/colleagues (Asia) or in a bar in front of people you don’t know (West). But
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Google making panoramic shots of another city is no big deal (unless that city happens to be in Germany), so
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The Shinkansen bullet-train is one of the trademarks of Japan, yet, there’s no Shinkansen on Hokkaido. Routes have been proposed
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There is one other city in Hokkaido I visited during this trip to Japan: Otaru. Otaru is close to Sapporo
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I love Japanese magazines and books. There are magazines dedicated to everything from toy camera photography to nail art. I
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Taito recently announced their own joystick accessory for the iPad, the Invadercade. The case features Space Invaders artwork, one joystick
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This is maybe the biggest iris flower festival in the Kanto region and it involved a longer train ride via
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This semester’s class trip was to the town also known as Little Edo, Kawagoe (川越). At the Naganuma School (Tokyo
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Class started again and after a seemingly endless time at the middle level, I mastered the Unit Test and got
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Today is the 31st of December which is like an obligation to do something. Unlike western countries, there is no
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