LA 2 Tokyo

Since Junior High, I’ve wanted to come out here, but had no idea how. One of my best friends, who was half-Japanese, also wanted to come, but was in the same boat as me.
His Japanese side had been living in Hawaii for generations, so he had no special permission to work in Japan either. Anyway, [...]

So I finally made it out to good old Akihabara Tokyo (aka “Electric Town”). I went last Sunday afternoon, and the weather was beautiful. I wanted to see if I could scrounge up any cheaper deals on memory for this laptop, cause the prices in Kawasaki were a little expensive. I could buy RAM on [...]

Here’s a pic I took of one of one of my trains, the Nambu line, as it rolls into the station.
This line runs mostly through Kawasaki and Tokyo, but I took this photo near the border of Kawasaki and Yokohama…an area that reminds me of the Port neighborhoods in LA: San Pedro, Harbor City, and [...]

Everybody’s got different reasons for coming here. My interest in Japan started at a young age. There were lots of Japanese kids at my Elementary school, so I learned the usual bad words…but I didn’t really take an interest in the culture until Junior High.
I went to public school, and in LA, like most other [...]

Well, I take back what I said about the reliability of public transportation in Tokyo. Right now I am so angry…I’m about to punch the wall! Actually, it’s still the most reliable transportation system I’ve ever seen, but when it fails, it sure chooses to fail at the right time!
Tonight, I was gonna go see [...]

The journey from LA to Tokyo has been pretty interesting. Growing up in LA is a trip, and as anyone else from there knows, you might have had totally different experiences depending what part your from.
There’s a lot of neighborhood pride out there for sure, which gave rise to all those bumperstickers that look like [...]