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Yokohama Oktoberfest II

After last years’ fabulous day at the Oktoberfest in Yokohama, I call like to think of this as a small revival and somehow also my pay of paying tribute to having been in Japan over a year now.

After a bit of short term planning we manaed to all arrive more or less punctually at the [...]

Sumo

After yesterday’s BBQ I would have been perfectly happy to just sleep today and do nothing. However, the Sumo tournament comes only every four months to Tokyo and after missing it the last three times I just had t take this chance.

Thus, some friends and I did the obligatory Sumo trip and enjoyed a few [...]

A Japanese Style BBQ

Thanks to Masumi, her colleagues and friends, I could enjoy a fabulous Japanese BBQ in Nasu. yesterday afternoon. The whole day was quite normal for locals in terms of how the BBQ was planned. For my German readers, it will sound rather strange.

We go up at 6am, took the train at 7am, met up with [...]

a fast train

After receiving information from Peter about a test run of the JR-Maglev (Japan Rail Magnetic Levitation Train) in the Yamanashi prefecture this weekend, I got up early in the morning and met up with my friends in Shinjuku. From there we went to Otsuki in some of the oldest available metro trains and finally walked a [...]