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 ...

Studio Ghibli, the animation studio behind classic animated films including Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, and the Academy Award-winning Spirited Away, has been amongst the ...

When last we left Harajuku, we were standing outside of the Peanuts theme store with our Gothloli friend: The Peanuts store is pretty damned awesome, what ...

Welcome back to the guided tour of my trip to Japan! For those of you just joining me, my husband and I took our first ...

Next: Harajuku. - Chris

Impressions of Odaiba: An artificial island set in the Tokyo Bay, Odaiba, to me, felt like a very calculated escape from the rigours and density ...

Hey there! Welcome back to my little travelogue of Japan. If you've missed the previous entries, they're now all indexed under the Japan 2007 tag. ...

I’m actually typing up this entry on the plane ride home from Japan. I have mixed feelings about leaving… I’ve never really been convinced I ...

Oh shit… what’s this? Could it be? It is! It’s: Yes, it’s NAMJATOWN, a multi-floor themed indoor amusement park. Sort of. While there are three over-riding ...

My anger is so fucking righteous. Seriously though, I'm in Japan, everything's goddamned awesome. I don't even have an angry bone in my body at this ...

When last we talked, we had just left the Tokyu Hands store in Ikebukuro. A short walk away from there is the Sunshine 60 mall, ...

For Day 2 in Japan, we decided to take it easy--only a few train stops away from our home of Saitama (seen above, in the ...

Did you know there's a typhoon coming? And that a typhoon is actually a hurricane? And that on our way home from Ikebukuro, the trains ...

I'm in Japan. Above you can see Saitama just north of Tokyo, where we're staying for much of our trip. It's very hot and very ...

I'm heading to Japan in early September, thanks to the very gracious hospitality of friends of mine who are living just outside of Tokyo that ...