Japan Itinerary and Budget I would first off like to thank www.reddit.com/r/JapanTravel for their help and advice for people that want to travel to Japan. Japan Itinerary Thursday, March 30th – Arrive at 3:30 pm Narita Airport in Japan. Pick up 7 Day Japan Rail Pass, Buy Pasmo/Suica card, head to AirBnB. Friday, March 31st […]
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Update on my Japan Trip
It has been quite awhile since I have posted on my site. While I was posting on the site I grew increasingly frustrated with how WordPress handled my posts and images, what you would see when you saw my post was not what I saw when I wrote it. It was very frustrating when I […]
Anime to Manga to Light Novels to Xianxia
In What is an Otaku? I talked about how I became an otaku. While writing that article I realized just how long I have actually been one and I suddenly had the urge to write a historical retrospective of how I started and how the anime, manga, light novel and xianxia scene has changed. Looking online […]
Akiba, Electronics and Anime
Being the only electronics store located on the east side and even having its own entrance to the Akiba train station Yodobashi Camera is this gigantic, 8 stories tall mega store. Take some time to look at it and soak it in. It looks more like a shopping mall that what it truly is, a […]
Learn Japanese
I have mentioned several times before that one of my goals was to learn Japanese. I have spent several hundred dollars trying to teach myself this language and have failed multiple times so with that said, here is what I bought and what I would actually recommend keeping. Textbooks Genki I Series. Yes, this always […]
Tokyo Destination: Akihabara, Otaku Paradise
If you have watch anime, read manga or light novels, then you will almost of certainly heard of Akihabara. After WWII, Akihabara had the nickname ‘Electric Town’ and was known as the place go for cheap electronics. To this day, you can still find cheap electronics, but now it is most well known for all […]
Japan Tours
During the time I was researching hotels in Japan, I mentioned to a co-worker about the trip I was planning to take to Japan and right away he got excited saying he wanted to go. He won’t, not because I rejected him, but because he is moving across the country this summer. One of the […]
Travel in Japan
Japan has the greatest railway system in the world. It is famed for its reliability, punctuality and is also known for their famous bullet trains. Shinjuku Train Station has 200 exits and is the busiest train station in the world with 3-4 million passing through it daily. In comparison, Grand Central Station in New York […]
Adventuring with Japanese Hotels
Now that I had mostly figured out the airplane situation is was time to look at where I was going to stay while in Japan. I was immediately deluged with a bewildering variety of options. Budget hotels, business hotels, luxury hotels, hostels, ryokan, Airbnb, couch-surfing and even something called a capsule hotel. Seeing all these […]
Travel Reward Credit Cards
So in my last post, I mentioned how I began exploring how to find cheaper airplane tickets to Japan. What I found was that 8 out of 10 google articles was about the ‘travel hack’ of credit card mile points. People like Scott Keyes, Nomadic Matt, and several others have become famous for being able […]