Posts Tagged ‘pictures’

I am off to bed, but I thought I would post a few pictures I took at Kourakuen Station and Tokyo Dome today. I will finish giving them descriptions and rename them later. The first few are from Kourakuen Station, after I got off the train. They have beautiful murals along the [...]

I wish I had an exciting story, but, I guess it’s true: “No news is good news.”
I took my little Canon Ixy800IS again for the first time in a long time, but I only took a few pics. One good thing is that I have been enjoying reading some Japanese literature, both in [...]

Wow! Snow…? I woke up this morning to a surprise snow storm. Or maybe it was just a surpise to me…To be fair, I hadn’t heard the weather forecast, so maybe everyone else knew about it. But I doubt it, because I think I would have heard about it from [...]

You wouldn’t know it by listening to everyone around here whine about how cold it is, but we have had a relatively mild winter so far. We have had a few cold days, and it does get cold at night, but it is nothing like what my friends and family back home have been [...]

Today (January 14th, 2008) was a National Holiday in Japan. It’s called 「成人の日」(seijin no hi), which literally means, “Adults’ Day,” but is usually translated as, “Coming of Age Day.” In Japan, 20 is the age of adulthood, rather than 21, like in the USA. It is a special day to celebrate the [...]