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Golden Week Hiatus: New Posts Coming Soon!

Posted on May 6, 2012 by

As many of you know, we just finished Golden Week here in Japan, which partially explains my lack of updates. But on the plus side, I just returned from a fantastic trip to Aomori Prefecture in the northern part of … Continue reading →

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Places in Japan: One Fantastic Day in Historic Takayama

Posted on July 21, 2011 by

Reesan from loneleeplanet has started up a new blogging festival called J-Festa to showcase the best of Japan, and this month’s theme is “Places in Japan.” I thought I would use the opportunity to feature a place that I visited … Continue reading →

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Wordless Wednesday #20: Buddha is Watching You!

Posted on July 20, 2011 by

This photo was taken near the public computer at the Zenkoji Temple Inn in Takayama, Japan. This place is a Buddhist temple that also serves as a hostel—and evidently, it has a good sense of humor. :) Happy Wednesday! Related … Continue reading →

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The Temple of Heaven

Posted on May 19, 2011 by

My attempt to sort and process my endless supply of China photographs continues, and today’s installment is the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. We spent a few rewarding hours wandering around here on a very grey day at the end … Continue reading →

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An Afternoon in Asakusa

Posted on January 19, 2011 by

Predictably, my rate of blogging has decreased considerably from the start of the year—I’ve gone from 5 posts per week to barely being able to muster up the time and energy to meet my Post A Week commitment. :) But … Continue reading →

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Narita, Beyond the Airport

Posted on November 6, 2010 by

So, as many of you know from experience, Narita is the site of Japan’s main international airport. It’s also surprisingly far away from Tokyo. I remember coming into Narita for the first time in 2004 and being surprised at seeing … Continue reading →

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Ginkaku-ji and the Philosopher’s Path

Posted on July 9, 2010 by

So, this post is actually about a trip that I took a while back—during my very first weekend in Kyoto, in fact. The CLS/KCJS folks arranged a trip along the Philosopher’s Path ( 哲学の道, or Tetsugaku no Michi). This is … Continue reading →

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Arashiyama

Posted on July 4, 2010 by

やっぱり(As expected), I’m behind on posts. The time is just flying by! At this point, I have less than three weeks left in Japan. We only have about a week of classes left, then we gear up for final exams … Continue reading →

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Hello from Kyoto!

Posted on June 6, 2010 by

It’s been such a busy week! On Monday, I moved out of the house I’d been living in for the last three years, put most of my earthly possessions in storage, and got on a red-eye flight bound for Washington … Continue reading →

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First day of language classes…

Posted on June 23, 2008 by

It went well, but I am so so so so tired. I woke up around 4:30 am (partly because I’m not fully adjusted to Japanese time and partly because that’s when the sun comes up in this crazy country), had … Continue reading →

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