Teramachi Street (literally Temple Town) is probably an area where we hang out the most. A mix of traditional and modern shops with tons of food, I think we won’t get starved while we’re in Kyoto. It’s a long stretch of shops in these arcades (a couple more running parallel) and it was very lively [...]

I can’t really recall where we were on the the exact day and each day we randomly and aimlessly toured around Kyoto, so I decided to write about a destination/area per post.
We reached the Kyoto Station via JR Shinkansen after 1.5 hours ride from Odawara. Inside the station, it housed a multi-level Isetan departmental store. Probably one of [...]

The next stop was Odawara, about 30 minutes away via Shinkansen. From the station, we took a small crampy bus for Mikawaya Ryokan, another 40 minutes away. The journey to the ryokan is a winding path that reminded me the racing map from Initial D. Speaking of racing manga, the bus driver actually drove like [...]

Phew… finally sorted out all the photos. My finger was very itchy at the trigger that I took a shot at almost anything, even ordinary ones. That’s the reason I have about one thousand pictures and 50% of them are irrelevant.
On the eve of the journey, Oliver and I did sleep much, probably about a couple of [...]

This is the only arcade game that I actually bother to finish it at an arcade centre. This Silent Hill arcade game was firstly discovered when I was in Japan. At that time I paid no attention to the box as I thought it was just another shooter. But wherever I go there is an arcade [...]

 That’s what we did.

(Cam whoring on New Year Eve – guy behind us wasn’t too happy when we took the shot(s) with flash.)
 
We joined the Japanese to celebrate New Year 2008 at Zojiji Temple, not far from the Tokyo Tower but we went 7 hours prior to New Year and found it deserted. Came back an hour before [...]

(The famous “Whoever wins…we lose”)
  
I went to watch AVP:R with George a couple of days ago. Promised him that I won’t watch the film before him (I did actually, in Japan. Shhh, keep it low).
Started with a big splash and ended with a big bang. It was like watching Alien, Aliens, Alien3, Alien Resurrection and Predator all together in one compilation. [...]

I just came back from Japan and I’m financially crippled after the purchase of this monstrosity: a Nikon D80 with a 18 – 200mm lens. All thanks to the mind poisoning of my friend’s cousin and the people of Japan that are using DSLRs. Curse you all!!
 

(Nikon DSLR D80 – Source)

(Nikkor 18-200mm Lens – Source)

[ 22 December 2007 to 3 January 2008. ]
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