Thursday, February 28, 2013

Tokyo Free Guide (draft)

We are very excited to meet Chikako, our Tokyo Free Guide!  (I'll actually write stuff here at some point)

You can check out their web site here - http://www.tokyofreeguide.com/

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Sunday, February 17, 2013

How we've learned about Japan

We get bored with Lonely Planet travel guides pretty quickly so these are a few things that we've used to augment our Japanese research:

 

Big Bird in Japan:

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Jiro Dreams of Sushi:

Jiro ono

 

Studio Ghibli:

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Postcard from my dad, 1989:

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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Totoro! (draft)

We watched - and fell in love with - Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro this weekend!

Monday, February 11, 2013