Posts Tagged ‘osaka’

lodgings in japan

Booking hotels in Japan when you don’t have decent proficiency in the Japanese language is a headache. I didn’t have the stomach to have others suffer my very-rusty spoken Japanese, so I turned to Rakuten for all my lodging needs. Rakuten does have an English site, but I found the Japanese site to have a [...]

osaka framed, horizontally

picturing osaka

ready to turn this head the other way

I’m ready to leave Osaka. Sorry to all the Kansai lovers out there, but I’m growing weary of the neon lights and noisy salesmen, of girls and their silent disdainful appraisals, of men and their unreadable glances, and of these busy streets that for no good reason always end up in a shopping cul-de-sac. It [...]