Jack of all trades…

Modern warfare was definitely changed in August 6th 1945, at about 8.15am local time. The Enola Gay B-52 bomber dropped the “little boy” on Hiroshima. The city was destroyed. A new era had begun.
It is difficult to see modern Japanese people, a peaceful society, as one of the instigators and fighting parties during WW2, though [...]

I was about to publish a serious post on Hiroshima’s A-bomb dome and have a draft guide on Tokyo’s Tsukiji Fish market since the beginning of the month, but tonight’s dinner has changed my mood for good so I’ll post about it.
I arrived to Hiroshima today, after a short Shinkansen trip from Osaka. It was [...]

I had to come to Japan to be immersed completely in the Muji experience, one of my lovemarks. Muji is already a well known global brand and  the typical anecdote is that it’s name comes from “Mujirushi Ryōhin” (無印良品) meaning “No Brand Quality Goods” (check out the Wikipedia article).
From their website: “The Company’s basic principle [...]

Japanese Kombinis, from the english “convenience store”, are small everything-you-might-ever-ever-need shops spread all around Japan (more than 40.000 according to Japan Guide) and usually open 24hs. There are many of them, 7 eleven, AM/PM, Sunkus, Family Mart, Heart-in, Lawson (my fav) and often you find several in the same block. I read somewhere (can’t find [...]

If you are the kind of person that judges a book (and he who’s reading) by its cover, well, you might have a hard time doing so in Japan. Japanese people read a lot while commuting in subways and trains (that is if they are not playing with a PSP, fiddling with the mobile phone [...]

Tomorrow I’ll be traveling to Kyoto, and Osaka, Nara, Kobe, etc (follow me on dopplr.com) and yet I have gazillions of photos to edit and post on my flickr.com page. But in the meanwhile I’d like to share some pics with you. Tokyo can be a skyscrapers crowded metropolis or a tranquil kids-playing-on-the-street neighbourhood. These [...]

Tokyo is full of micro-marketing initiatives and one of the first that caught my attention is the distribution of sponsored paper tissue packs on the street.

Only few times have I seen leaflets being given away, which in most crowded cities is a major source of urban waste (especially around the area in which they are [...]

As Amelie Poulain, who collected discarded or abandoned passport-type photos in an automatic photo machine, I have found several photos in Tokyo (see my previous post). The last 3 ones were in a printing machine in Yodobashi Camera, in Shinjuku.
I Like to fantasize about the stories they might tell, who the owner of the camera [...]

It has been long since I last had a good airport experience, apart from the shiatsu massage (I paid for) in JFK last January.
Airports in western countries have become hostile territory for travelers. I can understand strict rules and thorough controls due to a tense international situation (although I think they wouldn’t be too useful [...]