I think it's fair to say that on my Summer 2009 trip to Japan, I spent a lot of time in stores that sell manga. ...

So, continuing from my last post (http://comics212.net/2010/07/06/japan-2009-harajuku-kiddy-land-tintin-shop/), I spent a bunch of time in Harajuku this time around, and it was great. We set a ...

Let me show you something. This is Monthly Shonen Gangan, a monthly manga anthology published by Square/Enix, best known in the west for their video game ...

I absolutely had to go back to the Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum on my second trip to Japan. It was one of the highlights of ...

So last time I went to Japan (2007), one of the first things we did is visit NAMJATOWN, a theme park inside a mall. Except ...

In between when I posted this blog entry while still in Japan on July 2nd and the end of my trip, I actually had occasion ...

I figure everyone is at least as OCD as me, and would love to be able to read as many of the spines on the ...

It's easy, as a tourist in Japan, to stick entirely to the  Yamanote (ya-ma-no-tay) line that circles downtown Tokyo. It's got all of the major ...

My friend Corey Mintz settled on Shirahama as his almost-tropical destination of choice, for his trip to Japan. It was before my first trip and ...

So when I found out there was something called "The Pokemon World Centre" in Tokyo, I added it to my Japan itinerary pretty much immediately. ...

So one of my favourite retail experiences during my first trip to Japan was stumbling over the exciting department store TOKYU HANDS. Not just because ...

What you see above is a backlit, prominently placed adverisement for the Azumanga Daioh anime DVD Box Set, placed above one of the many escalator ...

[caption id="attachment_3209" align="aligncenter" width="540" caption="The July 2009 Manga Release List. Yeah, just July."][/caption] Who likes pictures of Bookstores!? I just went through my 2007 Japan Photo set, ...

Hey folks, sorry the updates have been slow... Internet access hasn't been that frequent, and we've actually been travelling quite a bit. So far we ...

So it took the better part of 24 hours from the time I woke up Monday morning to get to where I'm staying just outside ...

In September 2007, my husband and I traveled to Japan for two weeks as the fulfillment of a dream of mine to visit the country. ...

The thing about Japan is, it's where I've always wanted to go, and having been there, part of me thinks that it's where I want ...

Nakano Broadway Mall is pretty darned cool. Located at Nakano JR Station just a few stops from Shinjuku, Nakano is your typical Japanese mall, except ...

Hey there! Welcome back to the photo-tour of my trip to Japan. In case you're just joining us, it took place between the 3rd and ...

Copyright (c) 2006-2008 Kyoto International Manga Museum. All Rights Reserved. One of the most interesting stops on my trip was on the relatively recently opened Kyoto ...

I've posted about 640 Japan photos to this blog since my first post on September 5th, when I was actually IN Japan. Man... One thing I've ...

So the last entry had my visit to the Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum in Takarazuka, Japan. One of the coolest features of the museum is ...

Hi there, and welcome back to the ongoing chronicles of my 2007 Trip to Japan! You can check out previous entries by clicking "Japan" under ...

Thanks to everyone for the compliments on this photo-journal. The response has been pretty phenomenal, and I hope the Japanese government sees fit to throw ...

Thanks for continuing to read my Japan Photo Recap. I haven't mentioned it in a while, but these photos were taken between September 3rd and ...