Drove quite a ways to pick up a nice knife for my dad. Met up with my friend who convinced me graduate school is doable. Drank coffee to avoid dying on the drive back. Got way too interested in AlphaTauri videos and chatting with my friend, went to bed at 4am and woke up 20min before work started (but it’s okay I live very close to my work).
å¦ç¥ shenanigans: helped club sell yakisoba and vegetables. Indulged in churros, brownies and all sorts of not diet friendly stuff. Stayed long enough to watch the fireworks. Skipped the nomikai afterwards. Went grocery shopping.
Does anyone know of any good pizza places in Urawa or Omiya?
Hubby and I a lot of lounging around the house on Saturday, but still managed to get out for shopping & gym time in the afternoon
I worked Sunday morning but then spent the afternoon cooking up the tortellini pasta I splurged on from Costco~
Almost finished moving over the weekend. Only a couple large items left that I wish to sell. The new place is super nice!
I went to a bass music event at Womb on Friday night and danced my face off. It was so sick. It was nothing like your typical nampa clubs here in Japan, just like-minded music fans.
Went for a bike ride with my wife and made some new friends. On a more personal note I organised my sock drawer and now have about 25 pairs of matching socks.
Living the dream 😀.
Not sure if I should make an entire post for this. I need help finding a specific Tenugui, or the company that was selling this one. I have been failing at finding it online.
I am not sure where we got this first one, due to how much we traveled. Best guess is it was at Serakogen farm.
Thanks for any help.
Back from a week in Tokyo. After my 3 day conference in Kyobashi, went bouncing around some of the more local neighborhoods this time. I didn’t actually see a whole lot besides friends, but I just enjoy walking around drinking the character of the neighborhood in. I did have a moment where I stumbled extremely sloshed into a cheap ramen place next to Kanda station on Thursday night and realized after I placed the order that I was surrounded entirely by men in suit and tie. I feel like my naijinness just leveled up.
Also stayed in a retro-ass capsule hotel in Hamamatsucho where everything was yellow ostensibly from when they still allowed smoking inside. It took 30 minutes to find my name to checkin because the system they had was to write everything from the reservation websites into handwritten notebooks and because I have a Spanish style name they had no idea where to start and wrote down a random combination of two of them.
But Sunday is always a pilgrimage to the Holy Land aka Akihabara. Spent too much money again on popup shops and took my time rummaging through the massive Tamashii Nations exhibition they had across two buildings.
Sunday was at the Mega Illumi at Oi Racecourse ~~again for otaku reasons because of their collab~~. You can definitely do worse for ï¿¥1500 at the door. Petting ponies for the little ones for anyone with a family.
Well, I can mostly just say I survived the Kobe Marathon. Ran really well the first half but had a horrid second half, fortunately well enough to still get me over the finish line. Running past Suma, by the sea, and under Akashi’s bridge was nice but the incline up to the bridge to cross onto Port Island at the end is just brutal.
Royal Host for breakfast, managed to find a seat at Starbucks (very rare), and a late lunch at Saizeriya. A little study done at each. Living the dream.
Went to Shibuya Stream for a concert on Saturday, had a great time even if the crowd was a bit tamer than I expected. There was a Vietnamese place near the concert venue, so I had a Banh Mi for the first time in forever and some serious rocket fuel coffee with it.
Sunday I tried to get coffee from my favorite roaster, but they were closed… for a coffee event near the station that I somehow totally missed. Oops. I ran into some people also here for work who I didn’t know but recognized from the dorm, we ended up having yakiniku together for a few hours and it was pretty nice.
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I am having a ball watching my friend play the new Yakuza game.
I also went on a road trip to 伊勢志摩. Didn’t do too much there but the udon was gas and so was the okonomiyaki in this hole-in-the-wall. Also chatted with the two obaasans who worked there for about an hour after they closed.
Drove quite a ways to pick up a nice knife for my dad. Met up with my friend who convinced me graduate school is doable. Drank coffee to avoid dying on the drive back. Got way too interested in AlphaTauri videos and chatting with my friend, went to bed at 4am and woke up 20min before work started (but it’s okay I live very close to my work).
å¦ç¥ shenanigans: helped club sell yakisoba and vegetables. Indulged in churros, brownies and all sorts of not diet friendly stuff. Stayed long enough to watch the fireworks. Skipped the nomikai afterwards. Went grocery shopping.
Does anyone know of any good pizza places in Urawa or Omiya?
Hubby and I a lot of lounging around the house on Saturday, but still managed to get out for shopping & gym time in the afternoon
I worked Sunday morning but then spent the afternoon cooking up the tortellini pasta I splurged on from Costco~
Almost finished moving over the weekend. Only a couple large items left that I wish to sell. The new place is super nice!
I went to a bass music event at Womb on Friday night and danced my face off. It was so sick. It was nothing like your typical nampa clubs here in Japan, just like-minded music fans.
Went for a bike ride with my wife and made some new friends.
On a more personal note I organised my sock drawer and now have about 25 pairs of matching socks.
Living the dream 😀.
Not sure if I should make an entire post for this. I need help finding a specific Tenugui, or the company that was selling this one. I have been failing at finding it online.
https://imgur.com/gallery/oZLet1N
I am not sure where we got this first one, due to how much we traveled. Best guess is it was at Serakogen farm.
Thanks for any help.
Back from a week in Tokyo. After my 3 day conference in Kyobashi, went bouncing around some of the more local neighborhoods this time. I didn’t actually see a whole lot besides friends, but I just enjoy walking around drinking the character of the neighborhood in. I did have a moment where I stumbled extremely sloshed into a cheap ramen place next to Kanda station on Thursday night and realized after I placed the order that I was surrounded entirely by men in suit and tie. I feel like my naijinness just leveled up.
Also stayed in a retro-ass capsule hotel in Hamamatsucho where everything was yellow ostensibly from when they still allowed smoking inside. It took 30 minutes to find my name to checkin because the system they had was to write everything from the reservation websites into handwritten notebooks and because I have a Spanish style name they had no idea where to start and wrote down a random combination of two of them.
But Sunday is always a pilgrimage to the Holy Land aka Akihabara. Spent too much money again on popup shops and took my time rummaging through the massive Tamashii Nations exhibition they had across two buildings.
Sunday was at the Mega Illumi at Oi Racecourse ~~again for otaku reasons because of their collab~~. You can definitely do worse for ï¿¥1500 at the door. Petting ponies for the little ones for anyone with a family.
Well, I can mostly just say I survived the Kobe Marathon. Ran really well the first half but had a horrid second half, fortunately well enough to still get me over the finish line. Running past Suma, by the sea, and under Akashi’s bridge was nice but the incline up to the bridge to cross onto Port Island at the end is just brutal.
Royal Host for breakfast, managed to find a seat at Starbucks (very rare), and a late lunch at Saizeriya. A little study done at each. Living the dream.
Went to Shibuya Stream for a concert on Saturday, had a great time even if the crowd was a bit tamer than I expected. There was a Vietnamese place near the concert venue, so I had a Banh Mi for the first time in forever and some serious rocket fuel coffee with it.
Sunday I tried to get coffee from my favorite roaster, but they were closed… for a coffee event near the station that I somehow totally missed. Oops. I ran into some people also here for work who I didn’t know but recognized from the dorm, we ended up having yakiniku together for a few hours and it was pretty nice.