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Mitaka
Travel Blogs from Mitaka, Japan
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#1- arrival
... . Then next day I took the bus (yes all by myself) to my new home for the next ten months- International Christian University (ICU) in Mitaka-shi, Tokyo. I will take this entry to fill you all in on the details. I am here on a student exchange from the ...
Inokashira Creepy
A few weeks ago, the night was cold enough that mist was rising from the lake in Inokashira Park. I walk through the park nearly each day to get to work, and I have to cross it to get to the main train station nearest me. It was around ...
Hanami in the Park
Hanami is one of the words that foreigners living in Japan don't bother translating, because who wants to say "[cherry] blossom viewing" when there's a shorter word that everyone understands? You'd think hanami is the national sport, the way the Japanese ...
Japanniversary - My Fourth Year
My time in Japan has continued to get better and better, and this fourth year has been no exception. I climbed Mount Fuji, and travelled all around the country: Nagoya, Hiroshima, Kyushu, Okinawa (for the second time), Sendai, the Road Trip That ...
Home, Sweet Home
Oftentimes, I forget how different living in Japan is from living in Canada. Quite apart from the expected differences, such as language, culture, and climate, the simple act of living, i.e. finding a place to live, is about twenty times as ...
Japanniversary - My Third Year
... time, and couldn't just take off whenever I felt like it. In spite of this, I used my weekends to visit some new places in Japan, including Atami and Kanazawa. When my whole family came to visit me in April of 2009, I drove them to the base of Mount ...
Tokyo By White
Before I begin this very short post, I just wanted to say that I'm [finally] making a concentrated effort to become a better photographer. If you have anything to say about my pictures, even if it's just "That's really pretty!" or "That picture is ...
Late Afternoon Plum Blossoms
... she went right back to interviewing the mayor. Yesterday was a beautiful day, and I took a walk along a little river that runs through Mitaka, the Senkawa. I left home at four o'clock, just as the sun was starting to go down, and the air was warm ...
Into the West
On the eve of my departure for China, I sit sweating in my hot apartment, mentally preparing myself for two weeks of intense heat; Emily has informed me that the forecast for the areas we'll be visiting in China is calling for temperatures in the high ...
Carrying On
... to be getting people into a panic. I heard that the French Embassy had told all French nationals to leave Japan, saying something about a radioactive cloud above Tokyo. THERE IS NO RADIOACTIVE CLOUD ABOVE TOKYO. Let's make that clear. ...
Tainted
... it was about 20 degrees out) is just to show you the yellow pointer which my mother found absolutely hilarious when she visited Japan. I didn't manage to get pictures of two other maps I would have liked you to see, namely the earthquake map ...
It's Going to Be All Right
... cherry blossoms, which normally would be peaking in the coming week, haven't even put in an appearance yet. My first winter in Japan, five years ago, was when I started a new life for myself. Walking around Sumidagawa Park, after having visited the ...
Dark Times Ahead
... , whereas most shops usually stay open until eight. These pictures of empty shelves may not seem all that shocking to you, but in Japan, shelves are always stocked. The only time I've ever seen any this bare has been around New Year, when most of ...
Studio Ghibli Museum
On the suggestion of my brother, I decided to visit the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka Japan. Studio Ghibli is a well-known Japanese animation studio, however I have to admit I hadn't heard of it. Now, when I say Japanese animation, you probably think something ...
The Day After
... and I didn't get my hand up in time to avert the fall of the bowls. In a more somber vein, the number of casualties in Japan continues to rise. When I woke up this morning and turned on the television, a bit after nine, NHK was listing the number of ...
Rolling Blackouts
... close to Tokyo. It's affecting me in that they've announced rolling blackouts until the end of April; tomorrow, the cities of Mitaka (where I live) and Musashino (where I work) are to have blackouts in the early morning and in the late afternoon and ...
No Longer Running
... the constant flow of hanamizu (in Japanese, it's literally called "nose water") from my nasal passages. I'd heard that doctors in Japan are prescription-happy, so I'd expected something of the sort, but it was amusing all the same. I left the ...
Studio Ghibli Museum
... . We ended up waiting for him at Shinjuku station for an hour, and still he didn't show up, so we went on our own. Once we got to Mitaka, he called us to let us know he was on his way. We waited an hour and a half before he called us to let us know he was ...
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