otaku

found on the 'hobby' shelf in one of the store in Nakano otaku paradise.

matchy matchy

customer welcoming board in Osaka red light district

a must have for each traveller in Japan..

.. bento box - a state-of-art single-portion takeout or home-packed meal. here Makunouchi (幕の内Makunouchi) bento which consists of fish, meat, pickles, eggs, vegetables and rice. there are contest for the most aesthetically arrangements of bento. only in Japan!

Fuji-san

Sunrise on the highest mountain in Japan - Fuji-san.
However to see it from the top one has to stand in couple of hours queue !

here I am

Here I am a blue hair girl in Japan, the country that still has not decided on its Japanese name. And thus sometimes it would be Nihon and yet another time Nippon.