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Tokyo has a real monorail to Haneda airport. Another one is more like a regular train but on rubbered wheels and it has no crew onboard allowing make cool pictures/videos through a front & rear cars windows. Train connects to Odaiba, an artificial island with an entertainment park and expo center where anime show takes place every year. Here is my last day in Japan trip video:
The video is a bit tricky, it squeezes 22 minutes to 7 by fading in/out the parts. Since Fuji is static it looks like sometimes sun accelerates. There are some things happening at the very end. I woke up 4 a.m. to catch this :)
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Suika wari!
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This is watermelon carrying car, this car had fledge function, so you can eat cool watermelon in summer anywhere, anytime. Why we need this? Why we have to c...
Otakon 2010
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Unfortunately I'm not able to attend Otakon, the awesome East-Coast anime
convention, this year. But that doesn't mean you can't score some great
J-List st...
Japanese Kid Takes Solo Bullet Train Trip
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This 4-year-old kid riding a bullet train to deliver work clothes to his
father’s restaurant is probably the most impressive performance I’ve seen on
the T...
A Japan Photo per Day - Mount Takao Tengu
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For a long time I wanted to make a trip to Mount Takao - *Takaosan* 「高尾山」
and yesterday I managed to do it. Takaosan is considered a sacred mountain,
and...
Macabre kids’ book art by Gojin Ishihara
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Here is a collection of wonderfully weird illustrations by Gōjin Ishihara,
whose work graced the pages of numerous kids’ books in the 1970s. The first
16 i...