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Japan Trip 2024 Day 3 Kochi
Took a shinkansen to Okayama, west of Osaka.Then took a local train to my destination, Kochi in Shikoku.Lucky to have gotten the Anpanman train as not all of them are Anpanman. Inside the train was...
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Japan Trip 2024: Day 4 Makino Botanical Gardens and Ulfuls in Kochi
Taking the tram from Kochi station. Took me a while to figure out that the train network for Kochi was a cross and that you changed trains once you reached the middle to get where you wanted to...
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Japan trip 2024 day 5 and 6: Okayama and back to Osaka
When I said I was going to Kochi, Yukimi said that the way to Kochi was really beautiful because you are going on the elevated tracks along the coast and jungle. It has hard to take shots because you...
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Japan Trip 2024 day 7: Imai Miki in ROHM Theatre Kyoto
 I have not been in Kyoto for a long time. Last time I was here, my friend from Shiga took me around and I remember there were too many tourists and the highlight was the yakiniku.I know her! Takaichi...
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Japan Trip 2024 day 8: Sambomaster in Osaka-jo Hall
Kazama Shunsuke has become a morning talk show person. Same as Tanihara Shosuke. The program as about trendy items for Autumn. Zzzz.Need to find name. Looks like it is マーシュ彩.Typhoon no 14 going past...
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Japan Trip 2024 day 9: Last day in Osaka
Tanihara Shosuke no TV talking about Sanada Hiroyuki winning best actor for Shogun. I wasn't going to watch Shogun because I was afraid it would be another western perspective of Japan show but they...
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Japan trip 2024 Day 10: Fukuoka
Went to Shin-Osaka station to take the Shinkanesen to Hakata station. Pictured is the creepy mascot for the world expo 2025 in Osaka. Whenever I hear world expo, I think of 20th Century Boys.Checking...
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Japan trip 2024 day 11 Pt 1: Nagasaki Peace Museum and Peace Park
Weather forecast for the day. Bloody stinking hot in Kyushu. I was sweating in tank top and shorts and Japanese walking around in trousers and long sleeves not breaking a sweat.Taking the train to...
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Japan trip 2024 day 11 Pt 2: Nagasaki and Glover Garden
Nagasaki skyline, something I will be seeing a lot of as there are a lot of stairs and hills in Nagasaki. Old church but nothing to see here.Lol, there is a Kiyomizudera temple in Nagasaki. It is the...
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Japan trip 2024 day 12: Day trip to Kokura
View outside hotel in NagasakiWoke up to news of sudden thunderstorm in Hachioji in Tokyo with hail damaging cars. Glad I am not in Tokyo yet.Rest of the country still crazy hot. 38 degrees in Kofu and...
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Japan trip 2024 Day 13: Kurume
Looks like a music event happening at Hakata Station.One name I recognised was Yaida Hitomi. I can't think of a song but I am sure I have heard her before as I remember the name from when I started...
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Japan trip 2024 day 14: Kumamoto and All About Suomi jmovie review
Kumamon head at Kumamoto station. I actually wanted to go back to Fukuoka to take it easy but I could not get a hotel there on this Sunday. Getting hotels on Sundays is difficult and it was a 3 day...
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Japan trip 2024 day 15: Kasuga and last night in Fukuoka
Goodbye Kumamoto. 1 day was not enough. Back at Hakata station. Put my bag down in hotel.Tried to use my suica to get on the Nanakuma line and confirmed my suica is dead. I had been using my JR pass...
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Japan trip 2024 day 16: from Fukuoka to Tokyo
Shinkansen back to Tokyo from Hakata. Total easy, breezy 5 hours +. This begins the final week of the trip. It is starting to feel depressing because I know I only have 1 week left.  Going past Kyoto....
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Japan trip 2024 day 17: Tachinomi Micchan
Getting cooler and cloudy and Tokyo. I was still wearing tank tops but I wasn't sweating from day to night. Street Fighter poseable figures at Yodobashi. Meh.Went to Book Off in Akiba and I could not...
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Japan trip day 18: Nokogiriyama
I enjoy getting on the first carriage on trains because it is exactly like playing Densha de Go except real life drivers are better at stopping than I am. Met up with Micchan at Shin Koiwa and off on a...
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Japan day 19: Last Mile Jmovie review
Wow up to see Mitsushima Hikaru and Kyonkyon on TV! This scene was from Kangoku no Ohimesama and the program was talking about their relationship as Kyonkyon was producing something that Mitsushima...
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Japan trip 2024 day 20: Tokyo Game Show pt 1
It is never too early to go Makuhari Messe for TGS. It took forever to get out of the train station because of how packed it was.Got this Falcom uchiwa fan outside the station! I could feel the...
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Japan trip 2024 day 20: Tokyo Game Show part 2 cosplay
IGN Japan had a store?! I listen to their podcast shaberisugi gamerall the time. Good listening practice to learn Japanese gaming terms. Tokyo Stories game looks interesting because of the pixel...
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Japan trip 2024 day 21+21 : Samurai Time Slipper jmovie review and last days...
 There was one movie that I wanted to watch and that was Samurai Time Slipper. I had seen the trailer in front of Last Mile and I thought it looked like fun. The premise if Samurai Time Slipper is as...
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Mikkoku wa Utau season 2 Episodes 4-8
The first season of Mikkoku wa Utau was a watchable police internal affairs show. Season 2 is about scammer raid that fails because there is a mole in the police and it turns out that there is an...
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Like a Dragon / Ryu ga Gotoku jdorama Episodes 1~3 review
I am a huge Ryu ga Gotoku fan. I have finished all the games except for Kurohyo 2 and some games more than twice. I love that they have Amazon money to do a RGG jdorama and the problem with jdoramas is...
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Sky Castle jdorama review
I actually stumbled onto the second last episode of Sky Castle when I was in Japan which spoiled the big twist. However, Sky Castle gave me a strong I have to watch this feeling because it had this...
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Dororo anime review
 WHAT IS IT ABOUT?Dororo is an anime based on the manga by god of manga Tezuka Osamu. It is about this character called Hyakkimaru who was born without limbs, cannot see, hear nor smell but can fight...
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The Silent Service / Chinmoku no Kantai review
 WHAT IS THE SILENT SERVICE ABOUT?The US and Japan secretly co-develop this nuclear sub called Seabat. It is so secret that in order to get a Japanese crew onto the Seabat, they stage a fake accident...
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