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Design Festa Gallery Tokyo, open design space for artists
eating outshopping
21. May 2008 Mia Jaap art, harajuku, vegetarian

Mominoki House & Design Festa Gallery

My favourite shopping spree grounds are Shimokitazawa and Harajuku and today I travelled to the latter. But first I ate at the Mominoki House which is a “food concept store”.

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drink
meetupstudy
4. May 2008 Mia Jaap

Grammar is fun

Some of these blog’s titles are lies. It’s no lie however that I’m concentrating more on Kanji and grammar from

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Akasaka Blitz
musictokyo
25. April 2008 Mia Jaap concert

Tsukiko Amano live

A few weeks ago I was very happy to get a ticket for the Tsukiko Amano concert. Tsukiko Amano (Japanese order: Amano Tsukiko) is still considered an underground artist it seems and no one I know seems to know her.

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schooltokyo
25. April 2008 Mia Jaap naganuma

Fire Training at Naganuma School!

One letter can make a great difference: While “Kanji da!” (There’s a Kanji!) may only spell doom for your next

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meetupParks & Gardenstokyo
20. April 2008 Mia Jaap JLPT

JLPT studies: Taking it outside

The first “outside” meetup of the JLPT study group wasn’t that successful (it rained), but today the weather was ok.

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ProVoc Widget
study
20. April 2008 Mia Jaap

ProVoc Widget

When I still used my Atari, I programmed my own vocabulary trainer (which is available here) and used it to

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Plush leopard at the Vegan meet-up Tokyo
meetuptokyo
10. April 2008 Mia Jaap shibuya, vegan, vegetarian

Vegan Meetup at the Pink Cow

It’s been a while since I’ve been to a meetup of the Vegan Meetup group. Since then, the group has

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schoolstudytokyo
10. April 2008 Mia Jaap naganuma

Study Hard 2.0: JLPT Preparatory Class

Finishing level 2 is like a run on top of the hill at the Naganuma park. Yesterday, a voice announced

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tokyo
8. April 2008 Mia Jaap nakano-ku, rain

Nakano flood

Usually the river/channel near my apartment barely qualifies as a stream. It is also ugly and really should buried underground.

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schooltokyo
28. March 2008 Mia Jaap naganuma

Naganuma graduation ceremony

I already did write about the results of the Unit Test which I got today. Besides that it was quite

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Naganuma class room
study
28. March 2008 Mia Jaap naganuma

A “passed” week

This week proofed to be very successful for me. First I got my results from the JLPT level 3 back

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Takehara – a beautiful town near Hiroshima
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Takehara – a beautiful town near Hiroshima

4. October 2019 Mia Jaap

If Kawagoe is Tokyo’s Little Edo, Takehara is Hiroshima’s Little Kyoto. In this case though, it’s the town’s tourist department that calls Takehara the „Little Kyoto of Aki Province“.

Okunoshima – Japan’s Bunny Island
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Okunoshima – Japan’s Bunny Island

29. October 2015 Mia Jaap
Inakadate Rice Paddy Art 2015: Star Wars & Gone With The Wind
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Inakadate Rice Paddy Art 2015: Star Wars & Gone With The Wind

8. September 2015 Mia Jaap
Visiting Tokyo’s Giant Tunnel System – Water Discharge Tunnel
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Visiting Tokyo’s Giant Tunnel System – Water Discharge Tunnel

4. November 2012 Mia Jaap
Ushiku: Great Buddha and Fireworks
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Ushiku: Great Buddha and Fireworks

22. August 2012 Mia Jaap

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