Archive for May, 2010

What I want to tell you about Tokyo

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Look, I’m not the most well-traveled guy in the world. But I get around. I’ve been to four continents, a lot of top tourist destinations, and a few unusual ones. I’ve eaten gumbo in New Orleans, pad Thai in Bangkok, fish and chips in London, French onion soup in Paris, and lobster rolls in Maine. […]

Udon with the Fox Goddess

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

On Thursday we took the JR Nara line two stops to Inari Station, which is just outside the Fushimi Inari shrine. Or as Iris calls it, the Fox Goddess Temple, which is sort of wrong but close enough. As this web page puts it: Usually when one refers to Inari the two general images are […]

Off to Kyoto

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

We sort of blew Kyoto. I don’t blame Kyoto. This was our fault. We were going to Kyoto because we wanted to ride the shinkansen. I have been wanting to ride the shinkansen since I first heard of it in fourth grade, when we did a class unit on Japan. We learned a whole lot […]