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Poagao's Journal

Poagao's Journal

http://poagao.org/pjournal

Journal on an ex-American Taiwanese, stories of filmmaking, Tai-chi, band shows and just walking around.

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  • Return

    Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 20:11 in travel, weather

    It was raining hard outside my hotel room window when I got up yesterday, my view of Shinjuku’s roofline murky and gray. I didn’t want to spend hours on a plane with soggy feet, so I stuffed some extra socks and jeans in my backpack and f...

  • Ueno and Roppongi

    Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 11:47 in travel, Photography, weather, walking around

    I took the JR to Nippori this morning, walking up the hill to the west side of the station to find the “Suzuki” guesthouse. Overlooking the rail station is convenient and all, but the constant trains and announcements must get really irri...

  • Yokohama

    Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 08:18 in travel, walking around

    I walked through the brilliant streets this morning to the big Shinjuku JR Station, which, with the smells of restaurants starting up and the rush of passengers on their way to work, reminded me somehow of the first day of elementary school. I was pl...

  • Shibuya and people who hate it.

    Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 09:25 in travel, Film, walking around

    I slept in this morning, puttering around my room and posting the previous day’s journal before finally heading out at noon. This time I walked around the other side of the park, through the alleys that skirt the edges, past old wooden houses a...

  • Flea market and Asagaya

    Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 19:31 in travel, walking around

    The remaining donut in the box had gone stale yesterday morning when I got up, so I threw it out. That’s the last time I do the Krispy Kreme box thing, I think. It was Saturday, and I was meeting Louis near his house at Sendagaya Station, on th...

  • A camera museum, a river cruise and the Ginza

    Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 08:11 in travel, walking around

    The sun was out again this morning. My destination was the JCII camera museum near the Imperial Palace park. I got off the subway at Kudanshita and walked through the mostly deserted neighborhood, taking pictures of construction crews lifting beams i...

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