February 4th, 2010
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On Wednesday evenings after work, I’ve started running around Yoyogi Park with the Namban Rengo running club. Everyone meets up at Oda Field, just across the road from Yoyogi Park, at 7:30pm on Wednesday nights. While all the serious and good runners do some track work, I basically just turn up for a jog around the park, and then a soak afterwards in the sento (bathhouse), a few beers and dinner. I start at the Yoyogi Hachiman sento and leave my gear in the lockers before heading out.
The track is open the public, and always busy in the evenings.
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February 2nd, 2010
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Daylight, and it’s all gone. As I predicted, it didn’t last very long. It would have been nice to experience going to work in the snow. Perhaps people from places where they often have to snow
A side-by-side photo comparison shows the snow last night, and the remnants this morning.
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February 2nd, 2010
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Shibuya (and no doubt the rest of Tokyo) has been covered with a layer of snow tonight. As I was writing my previous post, it was really bucketing down outside and coating everything with a layer of white. In as little as 20 minutes, the road outside was covered with an untouched, even white surface – apart from the wheel marks of the first car to drive through the middle of it.
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February 1st, 2010
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It’s snowing in Tokyo!! Tonight, about 3cm (so far, at 11:30pm) has fallen, and things have turned white. I took some photos on my way home from my language class (around 10pm), but it’s become a lot more white since then. I might go outside and take some more. Let’s see if it’s still white outside in the morning.
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January 26th, 2010
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On those crisp and clear winter days that Tokyo puts on so well, there’s no better place to be than up a mountain. I was keen to head out and get some snow on my hiking boots and experience the cold fresh air. My day took me out to Kawanori-san, a 1,363 mountain in the Okutama area (fast becoming one of my favourite areas).
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January 26th, 2010
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A belated happy new year. 新年にあけましておめでとうございます。今年も宜しくお願いしますね。Another year passed, and another begun. I know this post is quite late, but I’ve had things to do. Just because it’s the new year doesn’t mean that my life slows down. In fact, things are already speeding up as time ticks on, deadlines loom and important decisions await.
I spent Christmas and New Year back in Melbourne, catching up with family and friends. After 8 months away from Australia, I felt myself going through some reverse culture shock for the first few days, then everything was normal and it didn’t seem that this life in Japan is even real. New Years eve was spent at a Western style party on a rooftop deck overlooking the Melbourne skyline (and the lightning storm that came through was even more spectacular than the fireworks). It was exactly the same place I was one year previously, and so much had changed, but so much seemed to have stood still.
» Read more: Akemashite omedeto gozaimasu
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January 26th, 2010
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Japan can be such a noisy country at times, especially the major retail and commercial districts. I sometimes wonder whether the concept of noise pollution exists. Recently, my ear drums were blasted by this advertising truck driving down Miyamasuzaka in Shibuya.
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