My Saturday started a little slow. Slept in till lunch time today. Batteries fully charged, but decided to take it easy today. Get some light coding/writing done and that’s about it for work I guess.
Every now and then I browse through my photo library. Take a look at where I’ve been, what I’ve done, who I’ve met. A picture is worth a thousand words and this particular one is no different. It is extremely safe to take a nap in public Japan.
Spotted this t-shirt of Hello Kitty wearing a stormtrooper helmet in Yokohama a while back. I don’t suppose the “KITY” is intentional?
Just sent Dave off at YCAT. Having a quiet coffee at starbucks right opposite yodobashi. Coffee and people watching.
This is the worst! 最低だ! Every ramen eater’s worst nightname is having his/her spoon slip into the soup. Appetite just flies out the window when treated to this sorrowful sight.
Recently had this really good Kurofune Burger at Hard Rock Cafe. The black buns in the “Kurofune” are a reference to the coal-powered American vessels of old that brought Commodore Perry to Japan. He landed at Yokosuka and negotiated a trade treaty with Japan, thus ending over 200 years of isolation. I haven’t been there yet, but am looking forward to visiting it soon.
If not for the warships stationed at the American base there, then at least for the sukajan-s I might be able to get there.
This is where it all began. The very first iekei (家系) ramen. The head of the “house ramen” clan. The chinese characters for iekei are 家 “house” and 系 “affiliated”. Yoshimura-ya (吉村家) was the very first shop that started using the suffix “house”.
Let me take you for a walk around Yamate (山手) and show you some of the older European-style houses in Yokohama.
While Roppongi might be the foreigner’s town in Tokyo, Yamate is famous in Yokohama for being the foreigners’ neighborhood. Historically, this was the designated area where the European traders were allowed to stay in the years leading to the Meiji Restoration; the Yamate Bluff area. Chinatown is just a stone’s throw away.
Need to see it asap. .-=...
you know in the first photo of you and Eri san you both are like from...
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