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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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The Great Passage / Fune wo Amu anime review
I first watch The Great Passage movie a very long time ago and gave it a must watch. I did not feel the need to watch the anime but since I have 2 more months of Amazon Prime, it was finally time to...
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Octo: Kanjo Sosakan Shinno Akari Episodes 1+2
Time to get back into more jdoramas. The first one I decided to try is Otco, a Iitoyo Marie dorama from 2022. After she killed it in Nanyobi ni Umareta, I am ready to give any of her shows a try. I...
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25 random tips for Japan
 1. Better to stay one week in one place than 7 different places in a week.2. Better to go one bar all week and meet all the regulars and go a different bar each day.3. You DO NOT have to use the JR...
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RIP Nakayama Miho
 Nakayama Miho has passed away at 54. WTF.She lived in Paris for 10 years and come back to Japan after her divorce. Damn, I just did a rewatch of Home and Away not long ago. Have to rewatch Love Letter.
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Japan 2024 Trip 2 Kyushu week 1
 Just returned from a 13 day Kyushu trip and I am so tired and my brain is mush.Went straight to Kurokatsutei at Hakata station for black pig goodness!It was raining and while that was bad for the...
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Japan 2024 Trip 2 Day 8: NJPW at Saga Karatsu City Cultural Gymnasium
Woke up in the morning to news that the non-reserved seats on Nozomi shinkansen are being reduced! Noo! I like using tthem because they are slightly cheaper than reserved. I would not pay reserved for...
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Japan 2024 Trip 2 day 9 Kokura
Taking the Romancing Saga train from Nishitetsu Karatsu station to Nishitetsu Minami Tenjin station. Something tells me I will be back one day.Took train to Hakata station and then Shinkansen to...
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Japan 2024 Trip 2: Day 10-13
Went back to NHK building next day. You can see Kokura castle from the building.Main reason was to try butandonya TonTon!Not bad butadon. A bit dry but definitely worth the money. Would try...
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