Archive for Japan

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This picture is sooo funny! I can’t resist to share it here!

Japan Vending Machine Free Drinks

Source: Danny Choo

Asakusa – Tsukiji – Asakusa

When you are too busy coding and your mind doesn’t work anymore, instead of keep pushing, take a break and do something completely different. That’s what I did on Saturday. I left home in the afternoon and walked down the Sumida River until it ends.

Asakusa - Tsukiji - Asakusa Photowalk

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Arigato from Japan Earthquake Victims

If you cannot see the video, check here direct link.

Books, Sports, Music, Electronics

If you are in Tokyo I recommend to follow this path.
Get out at Kudanshita station, exit 2 and walk all the road down to Jimboucho to find tons and tons of old books. Even if you don’t understand Japanese, it’s very interesting to see the atmosphere in there. Then you’ll find streets dedicated to sports, then streets of music and finally you will be in Akihabara, the geek kingdom.


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Baby Asahi Beer

I saw this size only in Japan! :)
Sometimes I saw these small cans, specially on tombs or dead altars.

Too many HDD

This is the result of buying whatever you find in Akihabara. Maybe I should recycle the magnets inside or the plates? This is just a lot of junk that spent already 2 years in my balcony…  

Really cheap DIY iPad stand

Do you have an iPad and a book support? That’s what I had at home. I had one book support that I didn’t use, it cost 100 yen, it’s about 0.9€ or $1.3 then you need something to stick on it so the iPad won’t slide down.

That’s all :-)



Physical Facebook like button

This is in Yurakucho, on my way to the Apple Store in Ginza.
The panel is full of pictures of the same model and she’s wearing in different styles.
You have to give a “like” to the one you like :)

Massive construction work at Iidabashi

It’s quite usual in Tokyo to see a building in some place, and after one week or less it just disappeared and after some months, you come back to the same place and you see a new building. Tokyo’s shape changes really quickly, but what I saw today was beyond what I’m used to see. At least in my 5 years living here.

As you can see in the map, the blue area has been completely demolished. Hundred of apartments and tens of buildings just removed. I don’t know what they are building there, but just imagine the process to move all those people and companies away from there.

Map here.

Look at that! The blue zone has been completely demolished…

Some pictures of the current construction work. Any ideas of what are they building there?

Small power

Small, old and crappy building in Kachidoki close to a big and modern one.
Maybe the owner didn’t want to sell the portion of soil where it was built. I wonder if the architects had to design the building to “avoid” that portion.

The aerial view thanks to Google Maps