Nope, see http://park30.wakwak.com/~weather/geiger_index.html

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Added on November 29, 2012, 2:12 pmI survived on seafood and rice. Nice.

This post has been edited by mat sputnik: Nov 29 2012, 02:12 PM

Simple -- seafood, rice, bread, vegies everywhere ... eat them. Japanese 0% beer also.

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Added on November 29, 2012, 6:25 pmWe are staying at Hotel Consort Osaka, about RM300/night for double/triple, all-in, in mid-Dec. Looks good.



This post has been edited by mat sputnik: Nov 29 2012, 06:25 PM

Use bags with wheels, Japanese footpaths friendly to bags like this, so just pull, and yes, try to get hotels near stations.

We were in Hokkaido last year in Dec. See entries here: http://m.naim.my/japan-dec-2011-collection-of-stories/

850m walk from the LRT station. You can also park at Prince Court Medical Centre and walk just 500m to the embassy.

Walked through the spectacular thousand torii gates at Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto a couple of days ago, see HD video here:

http://youtu.be/uW7fnImAyQ4

Shot with NEX-6 + Carl Zeiss 24 f/1.8.

This post has been edited by mat sputnik: Dec 23 2012, 07:23 PM

In Japan, train rides a must!

A collection of clips of the JR shinkansens (bullet trains) plying the Tokyo-Kyoto-Hiroshima route with top speed of 300km/h, and of the Fujikyu Railway for a memorable trip to Mount Fuji. (December 2012)

HD video (1080p): http://youtu.be/R1rHmrcp_5U

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Realtime speed of shinkansen in km/h, plus other GPS data. Pause the video and take a look.

After another Japan trip, must come here make noise!

Just use Google Maps offline. Open the areas that you want to travel in when you have wi-fi, which are saved in cache automatically. When traveling, just run the map and you should be able to access it offline, without data connection. Of course run GPS with it.

If you are after Fuji-san, best is go north side, i.e. at Kawaguchiko.





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Halal food in Japan? Everywhere got! But don't expect Jakim logo lah.









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just walk2, see many restaurants, read menu, see plastic food, ask if possible, sure can find good stuff. at train stations, got bento boxes. same process. so never took note of names. sorry.

btw the sotong/ikan bakar one (pic #2), we found next to kyoto station. that was the best. my squid set cost 700yen, the fish one 900yen, iirc.

Hahaha, poison lah! 2 weeks ago I picked up Carl Zeiss 24mm f/1.8 for my NEX-6 at a 2nd-hand basement shop in Akihabara. Got tax refund some more. Best deal ever.

70k, brand new 100k.

Yen down already, so about 2.55k only.

This Carl Zeiss glass pricey, sells for US$1.1k in the US, brand new. In Malaysia, selling for RM3.6k.

Here's a pic with NEX-6 + CZ 24F18.

thanks, so far lens has been performing very well, beyond expectations.

'halal' ... because there's no certification. one thing about a traveling muslim is that, you spend time looking for 'halal' outlets, and when you get there, you see 'halal' inscriptions, some quranic verses on the walls, maybe a pic of mecca. and in many cases there's also a bar with beers and hard liquors. so you just have to trust these guys, right, because there's no way to confirm it. like this 'halal' restaurant in danang (vietnam) -- the counter has a pic of jesus on the cross, so i asked, are you a christian operating a halal restaurant? yes, he said, but all my stuff come from a halal supplier in saigon!

obsession with 'halal' foods can sometimes take the fun out of traveling. so take it easy lah. as for me, during my travels (esp. to odd places) as long as i see rice, bread, pasta, fish, eggs, vegies, i deem them all 'halal'. of course no need to check out the kitchen lah. take the journey from lhasa to everest base camp in tibet, say -- all stops are at decrepit, dark eating places, which only serve every known body part of a yak. so how?

Up Skytree and there's a quake ... that'd be memorable.

If got quake, then very memorable. :-)