The scene in front of the Ginza Apple store on May 27th, the day before the ipad debuts in Japan.


haha suckas! i already got one!

Welcome back Eunice!

met eunice and her friends for food and drinks at En in shiodome. i was riding the poor train so i couldn't do the full par-taying with her but it was great to see her.



thanks for coming dude! miss you already!

A Stroll Through Yokohama

dad and i got to spend a day walking around yokohama and do a little chinatown food tour. check out the steamed buns. the one of the left is HUGE!

hiroshi liked the flat "bar" gyoza

it was a bit too hot to be in the full sun:

the workers take a break:

fun father/daughter times!

Life's a Beach

Took and almost original family trip down to Enoshima in kamaruka.



the air was really nice and clean. it made me glad to be out of the city for a change:


dad gets directions from a local grocer:


yum! a really nice curry shop with a hawaiian theme:



go kelp!



and did a little shrining back in kamakura:





a recent storm blew this apparently-hundreds-of-years-old tree down:


view from the bottom:


and from the top:


a tiring but fun day!

3-D TV fever!



i like technology but i think this is kinda LAME.

Murakami Madness!

We took a family trip out to Murakami in Niigata to see grandpa on his old stomping grounds. checked into the New Heartopia hotel (a rather lame place but its the only place with handicap facilities in the area):


grandpa tests the bed:



the food was pretty good:




dad liked the waitresses:


there was some kind of park or nature preserve across the street:


we visited grandpa's cousins:




murakami is famous for their salmon so we stopped by a famous old salmon shop:


and got the tour:




it was pretty impressive:




we decided to enjoy local foods at this nice little restaurant that the salmon shop people recommended to us:







wonderful food, beautifully presented:




i think grandpa enjoyed himself but he was a bit pooped: