Another bullet train at 8am, and we’re off to Hiroshima. This is the only night we stayed in a hostel, which turned out to be a floor, with 8 other people in the room. Not exactly the Venetian, but we made do. The people were cool, made us food, bought us drinks, so no real [...]
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We boarded the bullet train Shinkansen at around 8am this morning, and took a ~2 1/2 hour train ride to Kyoto. The bullet train is pretty much an airplane on the ground, they sell snacks and whatnot, and it goes pretty damn fast (video gets crazyfast around the 2 minute mark). Only downside is a [...]
April 29, 2010
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Tokyo – Day 3
Another 8am morning, a morning tour of downtown Japan and then lurking around planned in the evening. The tour started at Tokyo Tower, and thankfully the weather was fairly decent. The tower is a radio and TV tower, but at 333 meters tall it really gives a great view of the downtown wards. They’re currently [...]
April 28, 2010
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Tokyo – Day 2
Today’s weather was still crap, but it turned out okay. We left at 8am to head to Mt. Fuji and then some other lesser mountain. The drive to Mt. Fuji took us through rural Tokyo, which was a very different experience from rural South Korea. The towns seemed much more like neighborhoods than patches of [...]
April 27, 2010
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Tokyo – Day 1
Update: Night pano of our hotel view. We left Incheon Airport at 8am today on a pretty smooth 2 hour flight in to Tokyo. After the hour bus ride from Narita (sp) airport to downtown Tokyo, we arrived at our hotel, the Shinagawa Prince Hotel. After having some good old McDonalds for lunch, we headed [...]
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So I decided to have a blog again.
I need to fix that text for the titles, way too big. I also need to migrate all my posts from tumblr to here. But first, Japan. Coding and sleep make bad bedfellows.
