Adventures and Semi-Adventures

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Ueno Park

prayer request wooden card things

Five-story pagoda

big statue of Prince Komatsu Akihito

park performer

funny ad. pick your chocolate bar size according to you body mass!

Another good commercial from the train

If you don't take your allergy medicine, you could die!

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

My favorite commercials in Japan

Its hard to find them on youtube, but on most trains they run little commercials (although there is no sound). anyway, this one pops up a lot and its hilarious. I'll add more when i can find them - bret

White people

Yesterday when we were walking through Ginza at night, surrounded by millions of lights and fashionably dressed Japanese people, we somehow got caught behind an American couple who was so poorly dressed I was embaressed for them. The woman had bleached blonde hair and was wearing a pink VELOUR TRACKSUIT with CROCS. Uuuugggggghhhhh. The man was wearing a baggy old t-shirt and cargo shorts. Mind you, these are people who looked relatively well off (the woman had decided to top off her stellar tracksuit outfit with a Louis Vuitton handbag). Ginza is a nice district and most of the men and women are dressed in well-tailored suits and are otherwise well put together. There are not many Anglo-saxon or American people in Japan, and many Japanese take their opinions of Americans from the few white people that they see. So please, don't come to Tokyo wearing a velour tracksuit. Please.

This building deserves it's own blog post

This is in the Ginza prefecture of Tokyo. We were walking along with Miyuki and stopped and just looked at it. It dwarfed the busy intersection and was buzzing and glowing with lights and activity. My camera had run out of batteries earlier today and I was thinking how sad it was I probably wouldn't see it again or be able to take a picture of it. Then I pulled out my camera anyway and it had enough battery for six pictures! Here are the best three.