New Year Eve part 2: Namja town

Namco Namja Town is an indoor theme park in the Sunshine City shopping complex in east Ikebukuro, Tokyo. The park was opened in 1996 by Namco, a Japanese company best known for producing video games, although the park itself does not focus on those games. Instead, it features themed dining, carnival-style games, a haunted house, [...]

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New Year Eve part 1: Ikebukuro

was deciding to go Odaiba or Ikebukuro today..
Odaiba – Comiket 73
Ikebukuro – Go Nagai 40th anniversary exhibition / Namja town
decided that I’m not so keen to go comiket..
Ikebukuro

Sunshine 60 street with many small shops, a street leading towards sunshine city.

Sunshine City

Go Nagai’s 40th anniversay exhibition poster, suppose to go to see this.. but the exculsive [...]

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Christmas Eve

Spend the day at home doing laundry and housecleaning.. Was a holiday due to the Emperor’s birthday that falls on the 23th (sunday).
Around 4pm, Tai came on MSN and we had a chat. Told by him that while doing his uni project, he read about Singapore foods outlet in Tokyo! So after some searching, found [...]

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Akiba again!

Visited Akiba again, cause the new Master Grade Gundam Unicorn was launched during the week.
There was a Transformers Movie DVD launch roadshow outside Yodobashi. On display is bumblebee!

At the other end of Yodobashi, there was another roadshow for the launch of Gundam “One Year War” collection DVD.

This is Yodobashi

Bought quite a few things [...]

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Memory of Ragnarok Online

Ragnarok Online, 1 of the first MMORPG I played and for many years. Meet lots of nice friends there too.
Book-Off, a large chain of shops in Japan that sells used books,manga, CD, DVD, games.
Was at 1 of the outlet near my place and saw this Ragnarok online OST which cost 1000yen ($13)

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Tomioka Hachimangu

The largest “Hachimangu” (Shinto shrine to worship “Hachiman” god) in Tokyo, build in 1627 by an oracle.
Holds a festival every summer (around 15th of August) , which is numbered as one of the three major festivals of Tokyo.At the festival, more than 100 portable shrines carried by groups of people, descend the street.
Among them, is [...]

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nice view from workdesk

happen to catch this on handphone camera at around 430pm while at work… sunset and Mt Fuji can also be seen

around the office, can actually also see tokyo bay(rainbow bridge), tokyo tower, yoyogi park.

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Akihabara (秋葉原)

Also known as Akihabara Electric Town (秋葉原電気街, Akihabara Denki Gai). in short, can be called akiba. Akihabara is best-known as one of the largest shopping areas on Earth for electronic, computer, anime, and otaku goods, including new and used items.
My collegues call this place, land of geeks/nerds ..

Entrance to Kaiyodo Revoltech.. a big Danboard and [...]

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“Admin” day

Spend the 3th day doing admin things.. like registering for gaijin(外人)/Alien card (Yes, foreigners are aliens in Japan!), opening a bank account and buying keitai Denwa(携帯電話).. handphone
 In Japan, Signature is not often used, instead they use name stamp, which is call inkan (印鑑）or hanko(はんこ）in Japanese.
my inkan, which cost 2750yen($36).. ouch!

after 3 visit, finally manage to [...]

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neighourhood

I’m staying at koto-ku(江東区）, 1 of the 23 ward of Tokyo. Its quite a quiet place.. and is near sumida river. and its a has access to 5 train station nearby, thus able to reach other places quite easily.
IBM building across Sumida river

Etai Bashi (Bridge)

night view

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