The Japanese Toilet (Toire)
No, stop thinking in French! It’s pronounced “toy-ray”, an informal way of saying toilet in Japan, and is quite the phenomenon. Starting in the 1980s, the automatic bidet toilet seat […]
Tag Archives: Japan
Kerama Blue and Aka Island – Japan 2019 – Part 6
Part 6 of Japan 2019. If you need to catch up, Part 5 is here. Apologies for the hiatus! It has been a busy few months, between trying to buy […]
OkinaWOW – Japan 2019 – Part 5
Part 5 in the Japan 2019 series. Part 4 is here. I hadn’t quite anticipated being out the night before out 5 o’clock start. Narita airport isn’t exactly close, hence we […]
Shibuya and Shabu Shabu – Part 4 – Japan 2019
Part 4 in the Japan 2019 series. Part 3 is here. Like so many places in Japan, Shibuya crossing is unique. Two thousand five hundred pedestrians crossing with each signal change at […]
Twokyo – Part 3 – Japan 2019
Part 3 in the Japan 2019 series. Part 2 is here. I’ve been away at a conference and we’re in the midst of trying to buy a house, so I’m […]
Touring Tokyo – Part 2 – Japan 2019
Part 2 in my Japan 2019 series. If you’ve missed the first part, you can catch up here. The excitement of making it to Tokyo was dampened by a lengthy […]
Hair of the Dog that Bitte – Part 1 – Japan 2019
Taking inspiration from a good friend, and combined with my need to pun from time to time, I hope you enjoy the title. Our journey begins in the early hours […]
Easter – Food, Games and Japlanning
Greetings. I’m writing part of this post on my epic train journey from Cardiff to Truro, looking out on the tumultuous sea, and enjoying a glass of the moving-house white. […]
The Second Day of Ramen-mas
Friday night was ramen and retro gaming night, as you might be able to tell from the place setting and the SNES controllers. The tenugui I brought back from Tokyo, […]
Red Bull and Ramen
If Red Bull was a person… How would you describe their personality? This was just one of the interesting questions I was asked as part of a market research survey […]
