LA 2 Tokyo

Public Transportation in Japan is probably the best in the world, and you can easily live all your days without a car here.
There are tons of train and subway lines, each run by different companies. The biggest is JR (Japan Railways), and it’s the one I take everyday.
I used to live in San Francisco and [...]

Remember singing “100 bottles of beer on the wall?” Yes, it’s a schoolbus classic, and reminds me of the fun times we used to have on long schooltrips back in the good old days. But the days of the jolly yellow schoolbus are over. The reign of the nightmare bus is here…
Riding the schoolbus is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]