The PS1 was my first console, and the PS2 was my second. The latter had most of my favorite childhood games on it, and I'll continue to hold a huge amount of love for it. While that probably means I'll be spending…
Anywhere you go in Japan, you’ll be greeted by an air conditioner of some sort or other. Whether it’s in someone’s house, a giant electronics store in Tokyo, or that tiny ramen shop you think is too small to be a ramen…
We’ve all heard that you need to learn around 2,000 kanji to be considered ‘fluent’, but how close is that number to reality for people who actually live in Japan? After trying and failing to learn just 10 kanji a day, I…
A few days ago we took a trip to Tokyo DisneySea which saw us spending a little time near Funabori train station in Edogawa. Because of the proximity on the map to Tokyo DisneySea, we thought this would be an ideal place…
Before I came to Japan, I was completely on the side of people who took a shower in the morning rather than in the evening. After a few months of living here, I’m not so sure. Japanese people have baths at night…
Perhaps the most synonymous feature of Japanese architectural design is the curved roof. Whenever I used to think about Japan before I moved here, I envisioned large towns with roofs that curved up at the edges, which seemed to make practically any…