Kagetsu

Famous Japanese restaurant bosting a 360 year history. Originally a brothel, and still near the entertainment district.

Huis Ten Bosch

This morning is Huis Ten Bosch, alot of money has gone into this place but it is one of lease intererting places I have ever been. The only thing you can really do is shop and eat, why we bring the girlrs here I will never know.

Toilet English

Kyushu School Trip

Today is the first day of our school trip to Kyushu. We flew into Fukuoka and then went to Yoshinogari, an old settelment, there is really not alot to do there just see the replicated buildings of that area. From there we headed to Okachiyama, a very small pottery village near Imari. I guess this is one of the birth places of pottery in Japan and it was a very nice visit, I would have loved to spent a lot more time there but we only had just a little over an hour. The only good thing about it was that it limited my spending.

Fall

After an all night drive we are almost to Morioka, and we get a glimpse of the beautiful fall colors at a rest area.

Pretty(scary) in Pink

While I was waiting at the station I saw this man, now the picture isn't that great but if you embiggen you can see the pink and white design in the jacket, and he had a pink shirt on and was talking on a vivid pink cell phone. Gotta say he must be pretty self confident.

Narita

Long Weekend

It really is amazing what a typhoon & a 3 day weekend will do for the skies of Tokyo. Too bad I have to be home this afternoon to wait for NTT to come and hook tp my new phone line. The benefit is that I will have a faster interdmdt connection, and best of all I'll get some better TV, looking forward to Fox and CNN.

Tourists

Today I saw one of the most interesting t-shirts. There was a group of Australian HS students and the back of their t-shirts read,"私たちはオーストラリアから来ました。どうぞよろしく。"We're from Australia, thanks for being kind to us. I think only in Japan would this be an effective cultural ice breaker. Can you imagine what would happen if it were the other way around?