Is it lame to write a blog post about a place you don’t recommend? I went to the Transportation Museum in Omiya, about 30 minutes north of Ueno, because several Japanese people recommended it to me. To be honest, though, I...
Read MoreTokyo’s Samba Carnival in Asakusa and the Awaodori Festival in Koenji are amazing spectacles, but they’re also horribly crowded. If you don’t want to be straining to peer over people’s heads, you have to...
Read MoreIf you were opening up a shop in North America, you would probably check to make sure that there wasn’t too much competition nearby. It always seemed like common sense to me when I was living in Canada, but since...
Read MoreWoman at Taisho Matsuri in Yono Saitama, a procession of people dressed up in costumes from the 1920s. It’s held on the last Saturday of October every year at Yono station on the Keihin Tohoku line, about 30 minutes from...
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