Tag: travel
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Hiroshima
Hiroshima is a place that echoes the end of the war in the Pacific and the beginning of the cold war and threat of nuclear annihilation. The museums and the monuments all bespeak this. But this is only where those monuments are. If you walk around the city, you would hardly have guessed that none…
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Fukuoka
To get to Fukuoka, I rode the Shinkansen, which is the best example of mass transport I have seen so far. Not just because it’s a train that maglev capabilities and that it does a normal speed of about three hundred and twenty kilometres per hour. But because the thing is dead quiet and the…
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The Last Days of Osaka
My last two days were spent in Osaka going after two things, checking out the Osamu Tezuka Museum in Takarazuka and giving Nipponbashi a thorough search for something I wanted to get myself and as gifts for others. Travelling out to Takarazuka was intersting at least. It sits near to the outskirts of the city…
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Osaka Day Three – Nara
I headed out to Nara today and I was horribly late. I originally planned to go to the Osamu Tezuka Museum, but it’s closed on Wednesdays and sadly I mistook that for Tuesday. So today was about hitting Nara and I wished that I got up earlier. I unlocked the power of my JRail pass…
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Osaka Day Two
Today I did something a little more worthwhile, by going to Osaka Castle. It’s an ancient structure that sits in the heart of this modern city. The thing was used as a base of operations for Totoyomi Hideyoshi and his clan’s opponent Tokugawa Ieyasu and the whole thing has been rebuilt three times. The castle…
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Osaka Day One
With no one to meet and zero plans, and still kind of jet lagged, I decided to get my bearings in Osaka and see how things played out. So I bought myself a day pass for the train and headed into the city, specifically Umeda and Osaka proper. Leaving the station, I walked into a…
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In Transit
Okay so my flight has been delayed, which means I’ve thought on my feet, cancelled one hotel and booked another. So hopefully things should work out. The reason for the flight being delayed is unknown at this point, but instead of jetting off at around 1pm its now 3. I hope that John McClane was…
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Flight Mode
In about two days I will be in a different country. I am headed to Japan for a holiday and right now I scrambling to get the last few loose ends, at work and home, that need tying before I hop on jet. I did buy a stack of zines from the fair the other…
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Landed
Well I’m back home now. It was a really good week. I was busy helping out with an art exhibition, got to see my family, and generally break from my routine. Over the week, Jeremy put me up in his place. Part of it looked like this. And when I say part I mean about…
The Screaming Wall 