For the past few months, I had become more involved with a solar car team at a local middle school. The teacher had approached OIST asking for assistance in preparing their car for one last race in the Abu Dhabi Solar Challenge, before finally retiring the car. Given my previous experience with my old solar […]
My final day in Tokyo was a fairly quiet one. I needed to go to the airport in the evening, so I spent the morning up in Ueno just to see what was there. What I found was very similar to my first day in London, when I explored the museum district and Hyde Park. […]
I woke up extremely early to see my friend off to the train station, so after moving hotels and settling in, it was only 9am. Unsure what else to do, I decided to finally visit the one place in Tokyo I had to go alone to, Gundam Front. This center of all things Gundam resides […]
As our train back to Tokyo was leaving in the afternoon, we decided to spend the morning in the nearby town of Uji, the center of all this tea in Japan. Although the municipal tea house (which performs Japanese tea ceremonies for visitors) was closed, we made up for it by walking along the river […]
This day was fairly short, since my friend was leaving early the next day and needed to pack. Thus, we decided to make a short trip to Shinjuku and its gardens before meeting another friend from OIST. Although he didn’t have any plan in mind, we decided to spend an hour at a cat cafe. […]
After that rather eye opening experience at the robot restaurant, my friend and I set off for Kyoto for a few days. Naturally, we took the bullet train (or shinkansen) to make the trip in less than 3 hours. Still we were tired after reaching the hotel, so we decided to relax at an onsen (hot […]
So this post is going to focus on one event in particular that happened this day. Most of the day had been spent following my friends from OIST as they showed us around Akihabara and more of Shinjuku. However in the evening we had arranged to go to the Robot Restaurant to see the show […]
For the next several posts, I will recount my two week trip to Tokyo and Kyoto over the winter break. For part of this journey, I was accompanied by my friend who came to visit me on her way to India. This post however will focus on my first day in Tokyo, where I simply […]
I apologize for the delay in this blog post, a lot has happened in the last few weeks since moving to Japan, but I did not have internet access at home until recently. In short, my adjustment to life in Japan has not been as easy as I expected, but certainly not difficult. The first […]
Today Philip and I started a bit earlier, and while the girls slept we slipped out to pick up some bread for breakfast. Little did we realize the festival from last night had a second full day’s worth of events, starting with the arrival of the local brass bands. Each town in the valley had […]