From sadness and sorrow to joy and beauty
That was the range of my day today. Kind of expecting it but did not think I would actually have tears in my eyes. I first wandered around the Peace Memorial Park preparing myself …
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Japanese Bathroom, Bike Garage, and Coffee
Well, in China most of the bathrooms are crouch-down style. In Japan it’s a different story… Even the bike garage at Max’s place is pretty cool… The packaging here is also awesome……
Hiroshima night pictures
So the rain subdued and I went out for a walk and dinner. Dinner proved to be harder than I thought… unlike Tokyo there are very few menus with pictures or any signs in English for…
Hiroshima
Woke up early today and caught the train to Hiroshima… sounds simple? Not really… first went to the Shinjuku Station at 8am. The JR exchange office only opened at 11 so I had to go…
Night shot in Tokyo
Just played around with the view from Max’s apt yesterday night. Legacy links from the original WordPress post http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf http://www.m…
More Tokyo
Today I went on the bike to the Shinjuku Gardens, Imperial Palace, Ginza, Hama-rikyu Gardens and the Tokyo Dome (by mistake). Inside the Shijuku Garden there is an active temple wh…
ITP videos
Great collection of almost all of the projects of the ITP Spring 2007 show: http://itp.nyu.edu/sigs/showvideos/ …
Other side of the world
So I was wondering what is exactly opposite to Tokyo in the world… First I found out that this is called the antipodal point. Turns out that the calculation is pretty simple. - The…
Tokyo day 1 and 2
First night in town Max, Anais and I went out for dinner at Ropongi. We picked a random place and had some great skewers. The subway system here is incredible and easy to use. Taxi…
Tokyo!
So finally in Tokyo - this was the place the one that motivated me to go on this entire trip to tell you the truth… well, this and going to Portugal and Barcelona to visit my frien…