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Osaka

After staying in Osaka for a few nights, I was finally able to go out and explore this city. I liked Osaka a little better than Tokyo just because I thought the people were keepin’ it real here. People were actually bumping into me and not saying “sorry”. Takoyaki, an Osaka specialty or as the [...]

Kobe

The city, not Bryant. Kobe is a major port city in Japan, and it’s history includes a huge earthquake in 1995. Seeing the place now, you wouldn’t even know there was an earthquake. I got to this city from Nara at around 4:30 PM and since a bunch of places in Japan close around this [...]

Nara

Nara’s a small city known for it’s roaming deer. It’s small enough where I was able to walk everywhere I wanted to go from the main station. Convenient I was excited to see the deer and after a bit of walking, saw them right away just relaxing in the park. They have completely adjusted to [...]

Tokyo

Well, I arrived in Japan. Flew in to Osaka, then took a train out directly to Tokyo. Coming from China to Korea to Japan gave me a progression of cleanliness, and all the stigmas that people told me about Japan were pretty true. Expensive, politeness, cleanliness, technologically advanced-ness (in some aspects). However, I was expecting [...]

Kuroshio Sea

I don’t know where my fascination of aquariums came from, but the thought of taking a trip to one still excites me. I thought the one in Monterey was big, but this one seems to blow it out of the water *rim shot*. Jon Rawlinson shot this video at the aquarium in Okinawa, Japan and [...]

Robots

I think the first time I actually got freaked out by a robot was when I saw a video of the “mule”, which is a robot that helps transport supplies. If you haven’t seen it, watch below. What scares me is when they kick it and it regains it’s balance… VIDEO Well, I just saw [...]