Category Archives: Tokyo
Tokyo trip in Thai Yoga Journal
I wrote an article about my trip to Tokyo for the Thai version of Yoga Journal, click the thumbnails below to see the full version of the pages. Photographs are mine too.
Drunk
Apparently this is pretty common in Tokyo …. people getting plastered before rushing to take the last train home, and then passing out before they reach their destination.
Supermarkets
I love visiting supermarkets in other countries, checking out which import products are popular, looking at the prepared food, watching the type of stuff that people buy. Restaurant food is pretty expensive here (well compared to Bangkok at least), and … Continue reading
Heading home
So I’m heading home to Bangkok today, after having spent the last month in Tokyo. My life here has really been idllic, I’ve been able to sleep in until 5:30 ever day, practice yoga with a great teacher, study Japanese … Continue reading
Smoking
I forget what the laws are governing cigarette advertising in USA are, but they must be pretty strict as I don’t remember seeing much. In Thailand, smoking is banned in bars and restaurants (and generally well enforced), as is any … Continue reading
Tokyo Fashion
Tokyo fashion is a bit like what we have in Bangkok, there is this (apparent) anything-goes attitude and a abundance of subgroups wearing all sorts of strange things. It’s common to see people (adults) dressed as cartoon characters or 50s … Continue reading
Friday Vocabulary Test
So it’s no secret that I love vocabulary (in any language), and that I think a study of a country’s culture is impossible without really understanding their language. In Thai, when asking what someone had to eat for dinner, the … Continue reading
My shoebox home
Tokyo rents are probably pretty much on-par with NYC rents; I rented a furnished (nothing fancy) studio (efficieny) apartment at Komagome station (Yamanote Line) for 105,000 Yen (~1,200 USD, 40,000 THB) per month. There’s a bedroom about the size of … Continue reading
Yes, I am here … in Tokyo
I don’t know why I haven’t blogged yet. There’s tons that I want to say, and I have loads of time. Odd really … I think I’m starting a trend here now tho.
Teeming Tokyo
According to Wikipedia, Tokyo is mach-zehnder“the world’s most populous metropolitan area with 35 million people” and Bangkok officially only has 8 million people but is estimated to have at least 15 million if you count the number of migrant workers … Continue reading
