w00kie's ramblings

Category: japan

  • Momiji Lightup

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    Momiji – 紅葉 – is the name of the Japanese maple tree, but it can also be read Kouyou, which is the color the leaves of trees take in autumn. Watching nature around this time of year is a huge event in Japan, almost as big as the cherry blossoms in spring. So last Saturday…

  • Onsen nation

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    Next weekend is a 4-day weekend (well, it is if you take two days of since my company doesn’t care about official holidays). My girlfriend and I wanted to make a little trip, so we did what any japanese would do, buy a travel magazine, most of which selling you a one-night trip to an…

  • Wii Pre-orders

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    I just received an email this instant from Amazon. Here’s what it says: 『Wii』 予約受付日のお知らせ！ 11/17（金）より、予約を開始いたします。購入ページへのリンクは、受付予定日（時間は未定です）にゲームストア にて表示されますので、ご確認ください。 注文数が確保できる商品数を上回った場合は、注文のキャンセルをさせていただく場合があります。その際はＥメールでご連絡いたします。 Which basically means that Amazon opens their pre-orders for the Wii tomorrow (no info about the exact time though). Now I’m torn between waiting in-line in the cold at BicCamera on the day of launch, Saturday December…

  • New Ticket Machines

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    This weekend they changed the ticket vending machines in my station and it makes me feel a little bit closer to Tokyo when I buy my ticket every morning. On the left, the old busted early 80’s style machine with old-school orange monochrome screen. On the right, the new model they installed, exactly the same…

  • MIDGET II CLASSIC

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    Sometimes you see really weird cars around where I live. And it being the official “uncool” capital of Japan, you usually get a pretty good laugh. Here’s a perfect example: It was parked yesterday in front of my office in the plant where I work at.

  • 1 year in Japan

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    Today was my 1st anniversary of coming to Japan. It’s been a great year for me, I really feel like I’ve accomplished a lot of things and it makes me feel great. I met a lot of great people here, had a lot of fun and learned a lot. One regret I have is that…

  • Tokyo International Film Festival

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    This weekend is the start of the 19th Tokyo International Film Festival. They’ll show a lot of cool movies until next weekend at the Bunkamura in Shibuya and in Roppongi Hills. I’m going to try to catch Flags of our Fathers saturday, the American part of Clint Eastwood’s 2 movies about the Battle of Iwo…

  • Something’s up in Japan’s sky

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    Something’s going on in the sky over Saitama. Yesterday morning, in the bus to work, I saw a diamond formation of what looked like 5 C-17 flying very low. And today we heard jets screaming all day over our heads at work. I don’t know if they raised the state of alertness since North Korea…

  • New Google Maps

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    Apparently, it’s it’s been live for 2 weeks now, but it’s the first time I notice it: Google Maps has been updated for Japan! It’s now much more readable with full-width characters, building elevation, 2 more zoom levels, brighter colors and at last hybrid view. And the best part, we can now see the underground…

  • Train Otaku festival

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    This weekend we had perfect weather in Tokyo, thanks to the typhoon that just passed. It’s impressive how it can pour with crazy wind friday night and be 8°C more with a perfect blue sky on saturday morning. So we thought it’d be nice to go for a big walk around Hibiya/Yurakucho/Ginza in the afternoon…

  • World Executive

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    Le matin quand j’arrive sur les coups de 10h, 10h02, je suis comme un fou, je m’eclate! Je bois une cannette de Boss – World Executive Blend parcequ’au fond de moi je suis un winner, et je peux vous dire que la haut, ils apprecient enormement.

  • Disney Sea

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    Je suis alle a Tokyo Disney Sea ce samedi. C’etait vraiment sympa, vachement mieux que mes souvenirs de Euro Disney / Disneyland Paris / Disneyland Resorts Paris, enfin je sais pas quel est le nom officiel en ce moment, ca change tout les 2 ans. Ma copine avait trop peur de faire les attractions marrantes…

  • @#!§様

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    Hier soir je devais recevoir les batteries de remplacement pour mon Powerbook suite au rappel de batteries d’Apple. Comme d’habitude, j’avais demandé au livreur de passer à 20h et il est passé à 19h30 alors que j’étais toujours dans le bus rentrant du boulot. Donc j’arrive chez moi et voila l’avis de passage que je…

  • Mikoshi a Koenji

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    Sur la fin de l’été, tout les 神輿 de Tokyo sortent pour un dernier tour de quartier. Celui-la était a Koenji chez ma copine, mais ce jour la j’en ai vu aussi a Shinjuku, Shibuya et Omotesando.

  • Surf à l’eau

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    Le weekend dernier un typhon est passé sur le sud du Japon avant d’aller se perdre au nord d’Hokkaido en passant par la 日本海, vu avez dû le voir dans les news, 9 morts. Au passage, il a amené avec lui une masse d’air des tropiques et a nettoyé le ciel de tout ses nuages…