| 6:40am | Restaurants in Tokyo |  | | | In the middle of Silver Week meaning that people are out n about morethan usual which also means more people queuing up for food.Usually go to lunch around 11:30 to avoid the crowds though. Is liningup for food part of your daily schedule?5連中に人が当 にいつもより多い。 くの飲食店の前で人... |
| 6:27am | Mirai Apron |  | | | Instant Hijack from Ayu over at Figure.fm. Absolutely gorgeous! Maybe we should make the Mirai figma this apron version instead? |
| 2:12am | K-ON! PC Decoration Stickers |  | | | If you are finding your computer rather bland and boring and would rather have some moe moe kyun girlies decorating it then Cospa have something just for you. These K-ON! Stickers will be available from Cospa in October and retail for 2000 yen. The sticker pack somes with a large A4 sticker and smaller... |
| 1:28am | 20090910 + Amano Ai Giveaway Winners |  | | | Sorry it took a while to get round to announcing the winners of the Kagamiku Figma and Amano Ai DVD. First up is the Kagamiku Figma sponsored by Kid Nemo. As you can see from the photo, the answer is [36GB] and we got one winner out of about 673 gladiators who participated - Scamp wins! Scamp, this... |
| 3:05pm | iPhone wallpaper |  | | | Spent the day at home today re-building the Amazon ranking store.Didn't take any pics out n about so thought I'd post my iPhonewallpaper.All the Tokyo Live Bloggers use an iPhone for the posts so let's getthem to post theirs too. If you got interesting wallpapers for youriPhone or other mobile device... |
| 11:31am | Toda Erika |  | | | Gorgeous actress Toda Erika strips off in the latest ad for Cup Noodle. |
| 5:26am | A Week in Tokyo 45 |  | | | Going to try to do these as they were meant to be done - every week ^^; So much happens every week that the only way to keep track of my life is to take pictures. First photo taken last Thursday at the Good Smile Company offices - will cover that later on in this post. New daughter head compared to... | | |
| 1:06am | Mirai-tan 06 |  | | | In this episode, Mirai-tan heads off to check out the part time job at a cosplay cafe - only to come across some cross dresser Artwork by Kyourin hijacked from figure.fm. |
| 1:00am | Japan Silver Week |  | | | Yesterday was the start of 5 consecutive days of public holiday for folks in Japan. The 5 days have been labeled "Silver Week" - the name derived from "Golden Week" which are another bunch of consecutive holidays in the middle of the year. We wont get a Silver Week until 2015 -... |
| 12:34pm | Karas |  | | | Review of the recently released S.O.G. Max Otoha Karas by Max Factory. Tis a fully articulated figure but not from Max factory's Figma line. Me still have to finish up watching the series. Lovely sword - wouldn't you love to be sliced n diced by it? Lovely spiky thingys sticking out his arm - who... | | |
| 11:24am | Kingyo Sukui |  | | | Out at one of our local matsuri which is taking place at a hugeshrine. Here we see some kids trying their dab hand at Kingyo Sukui.Players are given a hoop with some paper glued to it. When the paperis dipped in the water to try to scoop the gold fish, the paper startsto fall apart - they need to catch... |
| 8:50am | Tokyo Sunset |  | | | Gorgeous breezy evening watching the sun set while listening to thesound of traditional music flowing through the neighborhood from thefestivals taking place.Will have a light meal at home and then join the festivities outsidein a moment - maybe in armor.今日はとっても奇 麗な黄昏だね。飯喰っ... |
| 4:03am | Nintendo Japan |  | | | There are times when one actually feels like eating at Mc Dees.Spotted this while munching on my prawn fillet burger. One can bringalong their Nintendo DS and download trial versions of games at McDonalds - another incentive to get folks to eat healthy. Does Nintendodo stuff like this where you are?マックでDSIの体験... |
| 2:50am | Breakfast in Japan |  | | | Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries took a survey from a sample from over 5000 people which reveals that less that 10% of Japanese folks regularly eat breakfast. And why is not eating brekkie bad? Well the ministry of agriculture had a load of other data from over a million samples... | | |
| 11:23am | Meguro |  | | | Evening stroll in our neck of the woods in Meguro. Lots of matsuri(festival) going on at this time of year. Atmosphere is most peacefuland harmonious. Night time is generally safe in Japan - unlike myhometown Hackney in London where I had to look behind my shoulderevery few seconds at night.Safe to... |
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