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4 Dec 2024 1 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei
When you have a son who is a train geek, you find yourself spending one entire day at a train museum. Thankfully, the Railway Museum in Saitama, Japan is so thoughtfully designed that I am impressed by its layered juxtaposition. What do I mean by tha...
3 Dec 2024 1 minute read 5 comments cryotosensei
So I stepped out of my hotel room at 11pm, ready to immerse in the Tokyo-Never-Sleep vibes. The chilly air assaulted my face but ironically boosted my spirits. I spotted a hole-in-the-wall izakaya (Japanese pub). Its insanely cheap ¥180 price tag for...
2 Dec 2024 1 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei
I have been to three aquariums in these two years. Churami Aquarium in Okinawa. Kagoshima Aquarium in Kagoshima. Enoshima Aquarium in Kanagawa. I think once you do something for enough times, you will start to build a resume in this area. I won’t ex...
2 Dec 2024 2 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
My wife and I are very different people but maybe we complement each other. I brought along this book on pandas for our visit to Ueno Zoo in Tokyo; she bought this panda outfit for him. You can say that we came prepared for the pandas, Lei Lei and Xi...
1 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Japanese people are enthusiastic coffee drinkers. But there was a time in which drinking coffee was unheard of in this nation steeped in a tea culture. Nestle reportedly influenced the Japanese’s habit singlehandedly by making children fall in love w...
30 Nov 2024 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
Bamboo is so tough that pandas spend 16 hours to digest it. It also grows exponentially fast such that it is used as a metaphor for late bloomers. Both traits are effectively leveraged by Kumamoto craftsmen. Look at how they inject their airport wit...
28 Nov 2024 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
Edion is an electronics store in Japan that sells household electrical appliances. Actually I wouldn’t know about the range of appliances it offers because I spent all my time at the kids’ corner. In many instances, you can feel how the Consumer is...
27 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Now that I have two Pikachu fanatics in my household, guess the first store we patronised during our visit to Japan. It seems that the creators of Pokemon have a special collaboration with Mister Donut. Look at these intriguing offerings. My son t...
5 Nov 2024 3 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
Daunting challenges like a declining birth rate and an ageing population are enough to paralyze any nation, but Japan, with her deep reservoirs of fortitude and ingenuity, faces up to these challenges squarely by investing hugely in ‘carer robots’ to...
2 Nov 2024 2 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
It’s the time of the year in which bright-eyed Japan enthusiasts from many parts of the world apply to get a coveted spot in the Japan Exchange Teaching program. I dug this up so that I can cross-post this on my blog, both as a resource of inspiratio...
