I’ve been wanting to go the Pecha Kucha Night in Tokyo since I heard about the concept. They accept presentations on just about any topic, and everyone has just 6 minutes to present a talk with 20 slides. You can talk about whatever you like, but everyone tends to talk about slightly artistic stuff.
Since it [...]
A couple of odd stickers I noticed while cycling. They were tiny and old and the only reason I even saw them was because the traffic light was red. When I showed it to someone to translate, she told me it gave off a bad feeling. It looks like a voodoo sticker to me. The [...]
Lately the wind has been strong, and as happens every year, the sands of the Gobi desert have been blowing everywhere. Everything is covered in a fine dust and it seems like everyone is coughing and sneezing from the combination of hayfever and dust.
On a walk around the streets of Akihabara, away from the electronics shops and on one of the big roads I came across this strange bicycle drawn cart. It looks like a homeless person’s mobile home, with all the possessions in the back. On each side, there was a handwritten poster with various messages. Above [...]
Nice Shot Shacho (ナイスショット社長！) is what you must absolutely say to your boss after each golf shot he makes, no matter how good or bad it it. To get that nice shot yourself, you have to start practicing at an early age, at any opportunity you can, even in the station waiting for the train.
There [...]
I’ve been looking lots at the rubbish areas around where I live. The ones along this main road are kept immaculately clean, the the various bags for separating trash rolled up and put in plastic pipes when they’re not in use. In the danchi, things are different. There’s an area where everyone from one block [...]
Here’s an old abandoned cigarette shop I came across on the road between Hasama and Funabashi. It looks like it’s been this way for years, but the price of a pack of cigs written on the poster is ¥240, so it can’t be that old. Now a pack is somewhere around ¥320 I think.
The location [...]
This post is as much to test a workflow for posting flickr photos with my iPhone. The process was:
Upload with mobile fotos Add the photo in mobile safari in the wp dashboard using flickr photo album Write the post in wordpress app
The photo shows what happens when you pan to photograph a moving object with the slow [...]
I wrote a post before about some JR train station maps that are on their site. The list included only maps that had English translations, but recently I found a much longer list (with 170 stations). It’s only in Japanese but you can work out the general layout by looking.
I ran the HTML page [...]
I found a few strange stations in Japan, which have ‘Eki’ as part of the name, so they end up being called eki-eki.
Here’s one called Koyukanshineki eki: 湖遊館新駅駅 and another called Hiroshima Eki Eki (can’t find any more information on this one, so it might be wrong).
Here’s one more: 横川駅駅 (Yokogawa Eki Eki)
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