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Tokyo Midtown
Up-scale mall in Tokyo. I often go there for a Vietnamese restaurant which serves an amazing curry ! Apart from that, it is rather expensive…
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Electronics & Maids
Little sunday stroll among the electronic shops and maid cafés of Akihabara. Even though Akihabara has changed quite much with its little electronic shops disappearing and maid cafés multiplying, there is one thing that does not change : the otakus !
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Vacherin
Delicious encounter in Tokyo : a Vacherin ! Imports to Japan were banned till recently – dangerous cheese, you know…
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Christmas Shopping
I knew it would be a painful morning so to lighten the mood, I took my 135mm along. One shot made my day, can you guess which one ?
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Randoseru
I now understand why these Japanese school-bags or randoseru (ランドセル) are so expensive : beautiful craftmanship ! According to wikipedia, the term randoseru is a borrowed word from the Dutch “ransel” meaning “backpack”, a clue to its origins nearly 200 years ago as used in the Netherlands. Traditionally, the randoseru is red in colour for ...
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Dying Countryside
The sight of dying villages is always a depressing one, and Japan is no exception.
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Filtered Escalator
Playing with lightroom filters with an old photo an escalator in Tokyo MidTown…
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Cake Selection
Cake shopping in Akihabara.
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France Week
At Isetan Shinjuku in Tokyo. Not cheap, far from it, but a good selection.
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Sori Yanagi
Cutlery upgrade, which started to look like a patchwork.
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Soft Drink Lottery
Soft drinks for kids : you don’t know which of the five colours you’ll get from the vending machine.
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Japanese Space Food
Fetching food for lunch at the combini is always a lot of fun. I don’t think I’ve ever stepped in a combini without buying something new to eat or to drink !
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Hot Summer
With the looming threat of rolling black outs, Tokyo embraces itself for a very hot summer due to limited air conditioning. You can therefore find various products for sale such as this one supposed to help you to stay cool.
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Milk and Yoghurt
First trip to Aeon since the great Tohoku Earthquake and glad to report that there is now as much Milk and Yoghurt as ever :-)
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Hot Cake Drink
Hot Cake drink from Morinaga ! How was it ? Not too bad, but a bit odd as it does taste like hot pancakes with maple syrup.
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Water Issue
The Metropolitan Waterworks Bureau announced on Wednesday that 210 becquerels of radioactive iodine (I-131) were detected on Tuesday in one liter of water at a purification plant in northern Tokyo. The Metropolitan government is calling on residents in Tokyo’s 23 wards and 5 adjacent cities to refrain from giving tap water to infants aged less ...
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Hello Kitty Toilet Paper
Found this in a supermarket in Japan : Hello Kitty toilet paper with strawberry smell ! Incidentally, I bought those rolls on the very morning of the Great Tohoku Earthquake on March 11th and took those photos shortly before the quake…
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Shortage Notices
The signs read that (I summarize) due to the Great Tohoku Earthquake, some items are short of supply. For instance: batteries, flash-lights, gas cassettes and cassettes-based gas stove. They also apologise and mention that unfortunately they do not know when new supply will be received – the main reason being that unaffected areas such as ...
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Food Shopping
March 14th in Tokyo : no real problem to find food, plenty of fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, rice, beer… only the things that can be kept for a long period of time became hard to find (e.g. instant noodles, bread).
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Tokyo Midtown
The 569,000 square meter, $3 billion project in Tokyo. All photos over there.
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えだまめ
Going to the combini is always an adventure and I rarely come back without something new to try. Last week I found some edamame (えだまめ). Not as bas as I thought it would be and only 90kCal (the financier I often buy is around 250kCal).