Nagoya, Japan Travel Blogs

Cherry Blossom Festival
Apr 6, 2004

Howdy! We went to a park down the road from us yesterday to check out the cherry blossom festivities. Crazy stuff. People bring tarps and park themselves under the cherry blossoms for the night. Public drinking is totally acceptable during this time of ...

Just?@Checking In
Apr 27, 2004 (8 photos)

... took the name tags back. I`m surprised with this behaviour given the hightened awareness of the SEXY HARRASU issue they have in Japan these days (that`s how the Japanese refer to sexual harassement). Oh well. When I tried to hand them out again later they ...

Elvis has been Cloned in Japan
Apr 19, 2004 (8 photos)

Sooooo, Yesterday Kyle and I went to a really cool area of town. We got off the subway and were faced with blasting music and a two groups of crazy Elvis impersonnators. These guys just get together in this park, blast their music, and dance their ...

where you can find me now ...
Apr 1, 2004 (18 photos)

... teachers are now constantly snapping photos. This is not the right place to be if you're camera shy! Last week we went to Nagoya Port to Sea Train Park. Of course, there is no sea, and there weren't any trains. There was a really big ferris wheel that ...

Nagoya
Jun 26, 2007 (1 photos)

Nagoya 27th June 2007 Today we checked out and got a very posh and spacious bus (2,500Y each) to Nagoya. We passed incredible green mountain scenery. The journey took about 2 1/2 hours and there were lots of small towns along the way periodically ...

It's Been A While ...
Jun 17, 2004 (23 photos)

... away. Two weeks after that we have a two week summer vacation! We have no idea what we are going to do for that holiday. Japan Airlines has a promotion right now, where you can fly anywhere in Japan for about $100 (you have to pay full return though), so ...

Why are you eating hamster food? - 3rd grdr to me
Oct 30, 2006 (48 photos)

... ROAD TRIP TO MIE-KEN, and NAGOYA! Wynne, Katherine, Sara and I left to spend our 3 day weekend in Nagoya (the 4th biggest city in Japan). We stopped in the next prefecture, Mie-ken to see the Eagle Rock and then drove up through the mountains (verrry ...

Me again!
Oct 12, 2004 (22 photos)

... with smoke I could hardly breathe. What else is new ... A few weeks ago we participated in a scavenger hunt around Nagoya. We partnered up with another couple from Canada and spent an afternoon collecting various items from a list to accumulate points. ...

A Typhoon, An Earthquake, and Record High Heat!
Jul 29, 2004 (34 photos)

... the mercury is really, really, really soaring. According to many, this is one of the hottest summers ever. Nagoya and Osaka get hotter than other areas of Japan because they are situated between mountains, so all the humidity never leaves. Kyle and I have ...

Expo 2005
Jul 9, 2007 (7 photos)

... but then I took a promotion at work and found I was working way to much to even consider a vacation...especially one to Japan. Since Nagoya is only one stop past Kyoto and rather close to Osaka (thanks Shinkansen!) I popped over to check out the Expo ...

Nara and the month that followed
Jun 24, 2004 (8 photos)

... I discovered at Ise for the next week or so which was a treat. Which brings us up to today. Yesterday I made a trip to Nagoya with Pip and Akiko to do some shopping and just reconnect with civilization for awhile. We didn't buy much but it was still ...

A traditional Japanese New Year's
Jan 4, 2007 (20 photos)

... eating dinner in Kariya, we headed back home to Nagoya late on the 1st. As a final holiday experience, we hopped down to Nagoya's famous Atsuta-jingu on the 3rd, to see what crowds were still heading that way. We weren't disappointed by the turnout, for ...

Nagoya City
Sep 19, 2004 (13 photos)

... ). Co warto zobaczyc? Na pewno warto po prostu pobyc w miescie (wsrod Japonczykow), pochodzic po ulicach, sklepach i parkach. Z typowo turystycznych atrakcji polecam Aquarium w porcie Nagoya. Niezapomniane wrazenia, szczegolnie urocze sa pingwinki;-)

Getting bigger and better, on to Nagoya!
Apr 20, 2006 (3 photos)

... at our train station by Dr. Matsubo, a pharmacy professor at Meijo University. He took us on a short sightseeing tour of Nagoya city, including a local china craftmaking factory, zoo and botanical gardens. We enjoyed the day and were quite tired from the ...

Smacked by Siberia
Dec 23, 2005 (4 photos)

... me a night's stay if I change them, it better damn well! Thing is, the skies around Kanayama station south of central Nagoya are clearing up at this time. Perhaps our chances are looking up? Then hope turns to despair: after we board the express train ...

sorry for the lack of entries
Sep 30, 2009

I will try and catch up with written entries soon.  Until then.... check out some pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/brandonibologna/Japan?feat=directlink

First step towards the next stage
Nov 17, 2006

... of an overdose to shut it down for a while. After that, it's graduate school time. I'm feeling pretty good about it, really. With nearly four years in Japan under my belt working for the same company, it's time for a change. Soon comes a new chapter...

The Szczepkos in Japan
Sep 26, 2004 (13 photos)

During the middle of September, we were quite fortunate to have Chris' parents visit us in Nagoya. His father was here on business, and his mother tagged along for the ride. They were also quite lucky to be able to stay at the Hilton, which is in a very ...

Takayama via Nagoya
Nov 12, 2008 (21 photos)

... 's apartment room in Tokyo. The weather is a a little bit chilling. We catch a  shinkansen  from Tokyo station to Nagoya . We have a plan to visit Meiji Mura opn-museum in Inuyama, a 30-minute train ride from Nagoya. We leave our belongings at ...

Parading through the sticky summer
Aug 21, 2006 (19 photos)

... middle of summer vacation, when I'm almost invariably out of the country. Thus, it tends to be slim pickings by the time I get back. Nagoya's big bash is in the fall, and apart from a fireworks display at the port on Marine Day in July (when Mayu and I ...

Back to civilisation
Jun 23, 2008 (10 photos)

... not like to make any exceptions to these rules. Though as there was only Daniella in the ladies dorms, Jon stayed in there anywhere. Nagoya is a really nice city, it is the fourth largest in Japan, so there is a lot to do, lots of shops, restaurants, ...

Under the pink
Apr 11, 2006 (15 photos)

... trip wound up tiresome and fruitless. Better luck next year? But, we did finally get our plum blossoms. It turns out that Nagoya's very own Higashiyama Park has its own chunk of them in its botanical gardens. Although the zoo on site is a depressing ...

From Driven to Distraction
Oct 14, 2008

... of an alphabet), but it takes only eight strokes to write Toyota and, you guessed it, in Japan eight is a very lucky number.   Speaking of luck, Nagoya also is the home of pachinko, one of the most obvious and puzzling forms of recreation for many ...

Jostling with the crowds
Jul 29, 2006 (11 photos)

... to do? Up the ante and head to perhaps the most famous fireworks display in Central Honshu (well, certainly within the vicinity of Nagoya, at least!) - the Nagara-gawa display in Gifu. A total fireworks count of a mere 30,000 (!), which is only matched ...

The big autumn parade
Oct 16, 2006 (28 photos)

... Long Island Ice Teas though. Still, at least I made it - something that can't be said of my friends last night! Now I can proudly say that I didn't manage to totally miss Nagoya's biggest annual event, despite calling the place my home for four years!

Nagoya
Aug 28, 2005 (25 photos)

... end he put the messages in ENglish. The ride was fun. I woke up the first time and there were mountains outside! I arrived in Nagoya around 7ish or so. Kazuno was waiting for me. It was good to see her again. she passed both of her examinations for her ...

Nagoya - Seoul
Feb 18, 2007

Great flight and only 1 hour and 45 minutes......bonus! Asiana were great.

How to make a classic Japanese tourist trap
May 21, 2005 (14 photos)

... for the sake of a fleeting bit of questionable entertainment is nothing new here: anyone visiting Tokyo Disneyland or Universal Studios Japan on an average weekend will see nothing less. The lines are only a small fraction of it though. People that are ...

ECC and Me!
Sep 15, 2004 (5 photos)

A few weeks ago, I was approached by the director of ECC Fushimi (Miki)--where I work on Fridays--who asked me if I would mind having my picture taken for some promotional material. I said sure, not really knowing what I was getting into, and promptly ...

parental advisory
Jul 11, 2008

... , corvi, qualche nenia sottovoce ogni tanto. Veramente emozionante. Il resto della giornata l'ho praticamente passata in treno per arrivare a Nagoya, che come vedete e' un bel po' piu' a sud. Sono in un ostello che ha le stanze alla giapponese: stanza ...