Memento: Bizen (Okayama, Japan) Day Out for Pottery Festival
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Japan Life/Travel, Tactical Wandering
Japanese Culture and Language Primer
A few notes and tips and phrases compiled for guests coming to wedding but likely useful for most anyone coming
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Japan Life/Travel, Personal Musings
Diary: Okayama Regular Life, spring-ish / ramen, friends, singing, coffees, shrine, farm, graves etc.
After all the friends came and went from the wedding festivities in April (including a hospital stay by one intrepid
Japan Travel Ephemera Scrapbook / Shinkonryoko Ramble
On our Shinkonryoko (honeymoon) travel, we rambled around Japan via various trains, occasional rental car, trams, busses and a coach
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Japan Life/Travel, Transport Rolls
Rolling Elsewhere: Joetsu to Tokamachi, Niigata, Japan (ambient, excerpts)
Scenes out the window on a train ride from Joetsu to Tokamachi in Niigata, Japan, including stops at various stations.
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Japan Life/Travel, Transport Rolls
Rolling Elsewhere – Thunderbird Limited Express Train, Japan (excerpts)
Just rolling ambient views looking out window at countryside and stations in-situ while aboard the Thunderbird Limited Express train –
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Japan Life/Travel, Personal Musings
Diary: Musings towards Uno + Smugglers book, provided Pyjamas, and Vancouver history
As it goes… I’m riding the Uno Bus heading to Uno to stay at Uno Port Inn near where magical
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Field Notes, Japan Life/Travel, Libraries / Museums / Archives
Museum Exhibit: Kobayashi Issa (haiku master), museum and grave in Shinano, Nagano
In May 2019, Ryoko and I wandered around Japan on a shinkonryoko (honeymoon) with the aims of riding various trains,
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Japan Life/Travel, Parties + Events + Invites
Japan: Tips for KIX / Kansai Airport (from #DRO420 kekkonshiki)
Tips for KIX / Kansai Airport A few handy annotations for pals coming to wedding about what to do when
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Japan: Transport Logistics to Locations in Okayama #DRO420
Note: made for guests coming to DRO420 wedding festivities, so kinda specific to that, but perhaps useful otherwise… carry on
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Rolling Elsewhere: Osaka to Okayama Japan by train (ambient, excerpts)
Just riding the Hikari Shinkansen train from Shin-Osaka to Okayama, Japan, looking out the window. No action, narration, or fanciness…
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Personal Musings, Portraits of the Artiste, Tactical Wandering
Diary: (Comfortably) Lost in Translation / Arriving at Kansai (KIX)
Upon arriving at Kansai (KIX) airport, i immediately went to post office, konbini (for onigiri, pocari and royal tea), then
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Japan: Okayama Local Transportation Options
Note: This was originally created for guests coming to #DRO420 wedding festivities, another dispatch shares specifics about getting to the
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Japan: Okayama Station to Hotels, wayfinding #DRO420
Note: originally created for guests coming to #DRO420 wedding festivities. Carry on. Wayfinding from Okayama Station to Hotels This dispatch
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Japan: Riding Trains from KIX Airport to Okayama
Note: made for guests coming to #DRO420 wedding festivities Train Tips from KIX (Kansai “Osaka”) to Okayama A lil video
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Japan Life/Travel, Transport Rolls
Rolling Elsewhere: Trains, planes and goats in Japan
Riding and visiting various trains around Okayama, Tottori and Shimane Japan, plus saying hello to some goats, and watching a
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