I’m no real movie critic. Just a self-ascribed high-key Pixar fan, medium Disney fan, casual Marvel fan, with a healthy interest in indie films. This review will contain spoilers, not that they’re be any if you saw the original animated classic. However, if you’re like me and consider most things spoilers, things like some creative […]
Wow, and now it’s the last day, or more accurately, also a half-day. My last Airbnb place was slightly more capsule-y than the one in Hiroshima. Instead of curtains covering one of the longer sides of a queen, this one covered the foot of a full sized. This meant less privacy but it was also […]
The morning coming from Nara was full of derps, probably due to not sleeping enough the night before. I was forgetting things left and right, inconveniencing people, etc. But somehow I made it to Tokyo with all my luggage (I stored some in Kyoto) intact. I made some laps around Tokyo Station, enlisting the help […]
With MVP back in the States, I suddenly was doing so much more thinking when planning routes with my JR Pass. It used to be that I would just mindlessly follow what my compatriots were doing, but now I had to look up! and read! and Google! and ask people what was going on! etc. […]
It had occurred to me about two weeks earlier that I could visit Hiroshima with some of the extra days I had. It fascinated me that after learning about WWII in middle and high school, I could now finally visit the place and face some of the reality of what happened there. I mean, us […]
The morning was magical. I had forgotten about the bamboo grove that is near Kyoto. We stopped there on our way to Osaka and my, those trees grow big. At first it was pretty thin and I enjoyed it but thought it was whatever. But when we reached the grove-y part I was speechless. The […]
This was definitely the best day in Kyoto. We get up early following the wisdom of VP and enjoyed a mostly empty Fushimi Inari Shrine, which is the Insta-famous shrine with its hundreds of red torii gates lined up one after the other, creating a beautiful red tunnel that people like to pose in. We […]
My impression of the Kyoto part of our trip was that it’d be the part where we would escape the busyness of Tokyo and gaze upon some idyllic countryside with a bunch of pretty things to look at. We use our beloved and precious weeklong JR passes to hop on a shinkansen bullet train to […]
We slept in, and it was a very good call. Our morning was spent doing a second run through of Akiba, where I visited my first Don Quijote and discovered the trap of claw machines. My first impression was that it was going to be hard to win, but I wasn’t sure how it would […]
Did I mention that Japan is freaky clean? And no trashcans? It’s a thing. NYC is going to burn my eyes with its filth when I get back. So our legs are still sorta dead but we manage. We check out some Tokyo shrines and then bum around Nakamise Street, gazing at the colorful offerings […]
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