Breath Palette Toothpaste - Indo Curry

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Breath Palette Toothpaste - Indo Curry from Japan
Margaret Josefin

Japanese Craft Beer Haul

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Kamakura Beer

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omurice revelaing

omurice revelaing

Suica Helps You Travel In Tokyo Like A Pro

suica cards, a photo by cjw333 on Flickr.

I wish I had known about using a Suica Card the first time I visited Tokyo.  Not only can Suica get you a discount trip from the airport to town but they also make it much easier to get around on the JR East rail line across Tokyo and make purchases in shops and restaurants.

Suica Cards are the size of a credit card and are tapped on a reader to transfer funds for train tickets or purchases around town.  When you pick them up at the airport as part of the foreign tourist package, you'll get a discounted roundtrip to and from the city as well as a balance of funds on the card.  When you run low on funds can add more so the card can be used over and over.

Most convenience stores and some restaurants will accept Suica Cards for payments making it very easy to make purchases without having to fumble around with money.  This also cuts down on change in your pocket.  When riding a train on the JR line you'll no longer have to stand in front of a machine to try to figure out how much your next fare will be.  Just walk up to the gate, tap, wait for the pip pip and you're on your way.

Details on using Suica from Haneda

Details on using Suica from Narita

Chicken Timer

Chicken shaped kitchen timer purchased from Loft in Tokyo, Japan.

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Special Others / Beautiful World

Shinagawa Prince Hotel

Shinagawa Prince Hotel

Shinagawa (品川) - Tokyo, Japan

Usavich Prison Break

I saw this video in a toy store in Tokyo and couldn't stop laughing .  Unfortunately the clip above was taken down from YouTube but luckily I bought 2 DVDs of Usavich.  Each comes with about 20 short videos of Usavich craziness starting in prison and ending up with the break out.  Buy season 1 from Usavich Season 1 @ Amazon.

Japanese Restaurant Playlist

Recently on ask.metafilter someone asked for a list of Music to eat sushi by so I answered.
And here's the list that I came up with:

• Audio Sports - hip hop with Yamatsuka Eye of Boredoms, electronic composer Aki Onda and then-battle DJ Nobukazu Takemura
• Bulljun - producer of mad beats
• Cappablack - down tempo hip hop/illbient beats
• Fantastic Plastic Machine (FPM) - Shibuya-kei at its finest
• INO hidefumi - Satisfaction is his take on the 70s standards. Very jazzy stuff.
• Jemapur - electronic hip-hop
• Kahimi Karie - subtle breathy vocals.
• Lullatone - electro-pop duo
• Nao Tokui - some nice electronics
• Riow Arai - electronic hip-hop
• Takagi Masakatsu - has an album Eating and another one called Eating 2. Rehome is pretty nice too

please post if you have anything to add.

High Technical Gum

Black Black - my favorite high technical gum

Entire Yamanote Line in Less Than 4 Min

SymmetryS

yo, yo-yo, yo-yo, yo, yo
yo, yo-yo, yo-yo, yo, yo-ye-ah

Thumbnails from Japan

thumbnails of some of my pictures from japan.

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Jemapur - Maledict Car

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It's Not All Good

bowl of ramen from nantsutei ramen shop, originally uploaded by cjw333.

Some of my favorite meals of all time were those that I've had in japan. I just can't get enough ramen, udon and curry not to mention wonderful sushi and a variety of regional dishes. Not all of the food in japan makes my mouth water, however.

Matthew Firestone covers 5 Japanese Foods You Might Want to Avoid on Galding. And you thought natto was bad.

三日月サンセット - サカナクション PV

i bought an album by this band
in osaka at tower records
band's name is Sakanaction
and it was definitely a good find

Taking Obsession To The Next Level

Taking the Japaneses obsession with noodles to the next step the Tokyo Noodle website features a blog, pictures and even a DVD of various Japanese women eating noodles in random places.

How To Enjoy Suhi