Nara, Japan is famous for its deer. You’ve probably seen them on social media, bowing to tourists to receive snacks. That’s pretty cool, but it’s not the most interesting thing about the town. At least not for me. More interestingly to me, is that Nara contains both the largest wooden building in the world and…
Below is a review of Shinkansen bullet trains in Japan. But first, let’s play a game. Name a thing that this describes: hard, shiny, powerful, intimidating in length, takes your breath away when you ride it. Thought of something? Okay, now open the back of the book and look at the answer section. There are…
Today I’m going to talk about how to use buses in Japan. It might not sound like it, but it’s going to be a hoot. Unless your name is Sir Nicolas Double-Barreled Pompington you’ve probably used a bus at least once or twice in your life. You probably think that the bus pulls up to…
When we were in Tokyo, we took five hours’ worth of trains and buses and hikes to see snow monkeys in Nagano. To be more specific, we were at Jigokudani Monkey Park, where we spent about three hours looking at animals, before taking five hours’ worth of hikes and buses and trains back to Tokyo….
This is a post about a wild experience in a capsule hotel in Tokyo. I spent a night in a Tokyo capsule hotel room that was orders of magnitude smaller than your average prison cell. It also involved me seeing more Japanese penis than I would have liked. I was not coerced into this. I…