zonjineko

I run a little Japanese blog teaching Japanese and featuring my photography. Long-time mac nerd

I’ve always been a huge blues guitar fan and so it was fun to find Broomduster Kan playing blues on an old National Steel-type guitar in Inokashira Park, Kichijoji.…

Author: zonjineko 2 years ago

When you think of the super high-tech, neon saturated city of Tokyo, perhaps the word tram is not the first thing to enter your mind.

Me neither but I stumbled across a post somewhere on …

Author: zonjineko 2 years ago

19th century England meets 21st century Harajuku on Takeshita-dori (竹下通り)…

Author: zonjineko 2 years ago

Hattori-san is a well-known homeless man who has been in and around the Shibuya for more than 15 years apparently. Hopefully he is okay – seemed like a nice enough person and wouldn’t accept any …

Author: zonjineko 2 years ago

I’m not sure what this lady was doing exactly but she walked along and then squatted down for about 10 minutes on the busy Jingu Bridge near Harajuku Station before moving on.

Resting? Heart palpitations …

Author: zonjineko 3 years ago

I found this bric-a-brac store as I was heading back to the train station after spending a day in Nikko, which is about 2 hours north of Tokyo.

I can’t tell you what I expected …

Author: zonjineko 3 years ago

I had spent several hours around Harajuku exploring the area and as I was heading back up Takeshita-dori (竹下通り) to Harajuku train station, this girl suddenly appeared from one of the side streets.

She kindly …

Author: zonjineko 3 years ago

A flashback to a warmer time with the beautiful autumn leaves coming out along Meguro River in Tokyo…

Author: zonjineko 3 years ago