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During our last afternoon in Japan, Marlene and I were in one of the basement floors of the huge Daimaru department store in Osaka. We were shopping for food and managed to land in a group of about 10 or so stores that sold so much deep fried food that it would be better suited…

Japan has pretty sophisticated public transport. In Kyoto’s bus system, we enter via the rear door (stop giggling) and we take a ticket that proves which section/zone/whatever we boarded at. At the front of the bus, there is an electronic signboard that tells you how much you should pay depending on where you got on…

Here are Jack’s vacation photos. There are a lot of them. So, I have finished uploading all the photos that I took in Japan. After trimming all the blurry photos, I have about 450 photos left. Yes, that’s still a lot but it was a two-week trip so you’ll have to cut me some slack….

Three of us had left at an earlier stop to check out the hot springs. Studds, Marlene and I remained to ride the bus back into town and head on home to a warm lodge full of blazing heaters and Beatles songs on loop. Studds and Marlene road together in a seat, I sat on…

I am back home in Seattle. The skies are clear, the temperature is just above freezing point, the omnipresent drizzle says hello and the city is lit up like Christmas. At a distance, the fluorescent lights of offices glow warmly and the street lights spew orange. The trip was great; so unexpectedly great. We all…

Riding the bullet train between Tokyo and Kyoto, the sun starts hitting me in my eyes. I pull down the blind. At the next stop, a young-looking man in a red sweater starts crouching to peer underneath the blind. Across the aisle from me, the boy says goodbye to his father through the window. The…

So, umm… I think it is Thanksgiving right now? Sure, why not. The last few days were spent in Nikko (日光). We were lucky enough to catch the last few days of the brilliant Autumn leaves and the first snow of the season. At the top of the mountain, we watched as the town cleared…

So as it turns out, I do have internet access. And dear blog, I just couldn’t stay away. (Note that the apostrophe on a Japanese keyboard is achieved with Shift+7, this is kind of awkward so I am going to stop using contractions.) I am currently in the Kansai region, in a place called Oji…

One month. Then I’m off to Japan for two and a bit weeks. I was so obsessed with planning my surprise trip back to Australia that I totally forgot. Here’s the outline: Nov 09: Fly United Airlines from SEA to SFO, then United again to KIX (in Osaka) Nov 26: Fly US Airways from KIX…

Hi guys, I have probably not mentioned this to the large majority of you but I’m taking a vacation to Japan in November this year. I’ll be going for two and a half weeks. That means I won’t have any leftover vacation time to make a trip back to Australia to be reunited with the…