Nihonbashi
0A couple pictures from Nihonbashi, the site of a very old bridge into Tokyo.
Sumida Aquarium
0The Sumida Aquarium at the Tokyo Skytree is awesome. Z is now in love with penguins, and I want a tank full of garden eels.
So many statues.
2My parents did a lot of exploring while they were here, and they found a really neat set of temples that we went out to one day. They had a bunch of really cool, really unusual statues. I present them… Read more ›
Books I read this week: June week 1
0Here’s what I read this week. Orlando by Virginia Woolf. I’ve been meaning to read this for a long time. Something in The Art of English Murder made me think about it, and I decided to take it… Read more ›
Adventures at the Skytree
0We took Mom and Dad to the Skytree, but that wasn’t our main goal of the day. First we stopped in at a museum near the Skytree where they had part of a Messiah Valkyrie from from Macross. It was… Read more ›
Bunny Cafe
0We took Mom and Dad to Rabbit and Get Fat, the bunny cafe in Omotesando. Everyone had a glorious time. A momma with her baby bunnies. The worker laid this tissue box on the flattened out bunny, it… Read more ›
Random thoughts
1It’s 11:28 am. It’s sunny and lovely outside, but not hot. The birds, who have been noising off like a Hitchcock movie all morning, have quieted down. A crow was being quite diligent about trying to get into our trash,… Read more ›
A wandering Saturday
0My sweet cousin visited Tokyo a few weeks ago and we were able to take her around a bit. First we went to a park in Hiroo. Obake (ghost) cigarette! Then we went into Harajuku to see the lovelies… Read more ›
Fabric Town in Nippori
0While my parents were here we made it out to Fabric Town in Nippori. I’ve wanted to go since we got here, but I figured the girls wouldn’t be up for a long trip full of lots of fabric stores,… Read more ›
Books I read this week: May week 4
4A lot of this week’s reading was practice in accepting books for what they are rather than what I wanted them to be. The Snow Queen: A Novel by Michael Cunningham is not The Hours. That’s a shame, because The Hours… Read more ›