A Week in Tokyo 48

As usual, great summary and nice pics, Thx for sharing ^^

Office needs a Mirai clock. Green looks out of place.

I've lived in Canada for around 8 years and I'm pretty sure you have to be up around Yellowknife in the North West Territories to see them regularly, but then again, I've seen them down in Thunder Bay as well. I highly suggest you go in the winter and that you prepare yourself for extremely cold temperatures.

Nice photos as always... =)

And that bunny suit for the baby, look like something out of Appleseed, or Ghost in The Shell, futuristic looking~~

And i would kill to get a Fiber Optic internet connection, 1Gb worth of connection is so worth it for 5000 yen... Man, how i wish i could have that kinda connection here in Malaysia... (>_<)

Ahh, those photos sure bring awesome memories! The Citybank I go to all the time is next to that Kinokuniya. LOL at the O'Reilly books. If my Japanese was good, I would totally love to get a job like that XD. I want to live in Tokyo XD

I am a big fan of Kaname so I am super excited to hear about him in your blog. Plus you seemed to have a blast in Singapore with him and the rest of team.

bigger office in a year i'm sure =)

Mmmm as usual, i got the urge again to rush to Japan as soon as possible ^^;

Concerning the Stormtrooper armor, i just remembered this, but did you forget to pack the black neck collar that you used to wear in Tokyo? I noticed that your neck was fully uncovered in the SG Dance video.

Food looks awesome and especially the soups now that i happen to be ill.

As for docs from my neck of the woods, they don't really oversubscribe meds but they sure do overcharge the visit fee. Or is 13,100 Yen a good price for a visit? ToT

Do take care of yr health man, and happy wedding anniversary! BTW, I do have a pix of what's inside the strawberry cookie tin on my blog. <^;^>

what u said bout folks in tokyo not wearing anything radical...not sure if i agree with that or not. all the times i was there, i saw more than a few people who were very trendy. No, i am not referring to cosplayers. Hah!

take it easy

Like always, a wonderful read.

Nice pic as always danny ^^

poor kyouka >.<

lol @ image ID#84643 BMW guy is interested in Alice!

Always love the Week in Tokyo features, helps to keep my dream of visiting Japan alive.

Many thanks Danny!

take care of yourself and don't over stress your body because you one have one

Another excellent week in tokyo.
A butler cafe? You are a genius. (why didn't I think of that?) I would die of happiness if I ever attened one *w* I just love butlers ^^;

Maybe a silly question but do you ever get nervous when you take a picture aimed towards a stranger (or sometimes of the stranger)? It took me a while before I got somewhat comfortable but even still I kind of play it off by pretending I was still composing the shot after they walk by =D

Have been mostly lurking, but just had to reiterate how much I love your "A Week in Tokyo" posts. Its what keeps me coming back :)

Thanks for the Tokyo Series. Just wanted to drop a line and say "おめでとうございます！" for 13 years! Peace and longevity to 'ya!

This was long overdue!
Stop getting a life and give us more!!!!!!!

Just a joke :)

An other great A week in Tokyo post amazing pics, BMW mag hmmm no free sample from them? haha

Another great week in Tokyo from Danny. I hope to soon be livin' the dream.
Robot bunny suit looks... awesome, I want one.
Electronic stores around 'ere don't even give you ANYTHING. Well, atleast I don't think.
Delicious foods, great scenery always capturing me in each article, thank you!

http://www.dannychoo.com/post/en/25307/A+Week+in+Tokyo+48.html#image84613
seems like it's fashionable to wear the straps of one's bag long so the bag hangs at the bottom of one back? i see a lot of students do that here as well.

btw, where bunny haruhi is been? ('~')

very lovely post as usual.. everytime i read your "A Week in Tokyo" post, my desire to migrate over to Japan just gets unbearable! Feel like packing my bag at this very moment and just go to the airport and leave ^^;

Though that will be impossible, need to prepare oneself and overcome all the obstacles that lies ahead first :)

Nice set of photos again Danny! ^^

It never ceases to amaze me how clean everything looks in Tokyo, the stations, the streets,...

hope you get well soon danny...must have been quite odd having a camera going down from the nose...but more importantly why the nose? the mouth woulda been closer...

and that guy from BMW magazine seems to be enjoying the view of Alice's rear...

LOL at Jonny Li. Take care of your health, Danny !

see you in Feb ^^

Do find some time to get more rest, research had proven that by watching bouncy oppai will increase your health ;-)

Back in S'pore on February ehh~~~

Thanks again for a great read.
My wife got excited at eh mention of 'Jimmy Choo'!!

I live in thermals (heat tech) in the colder weather here so I highly recommend them!
LOL at the price of the pizza...hope it was good for that amount! (nothing beats home made in my opinion!)

Thanks again for a great read and for keeping my memories of Tokyo alive

If one were to eat that kind of pizza over here, they would most definately get some wierd looks. What is that crust made of? Heck, what kind of tomato sauce is under that cheese?

Seeing that fiber line reminds me how bad Germany is in case of the broadband development... all they do is complain that it is to expensive.
Now a few towns get the special treatment but it will prolly be another 10 years or more till you can have fiber lines everywhere here.

Shinjuku... ahh memories... =.= nice pics and to be on that school must really be nice. ^^; I wanna be 15 again~~

Hmmm nice food, i never heard of soup stock before though... makes an impression on me like starbucks and such now just with soups hehe.

With the recession and shopping down I guess more and more places all around the world feel obligated to entice people to spend. Starting with governments handing money to citizens (I even heard they did this in Japan too) and with shops giving big discounts, cashback and stuff.
I always thought US was kind of a king on this, where in other places you just go to shops and bargain to get your best price (or in some places you just pay what asked and be happy nobody asked you to pay more than sticker price), in US you have a twisty maze of credit cards and websites offering cashback, websites distributing coupons for discounts and stuff topped with bargaining in stores for just about everything (which I found very surprising after moving to US), price-matching, special sales events, tax holidays, rebates, special promotions (like sign up for this card and get $300 credit at Sony webshop, or spend $80 at Walmart on American Express in December and get $20 back) and all sort of other confusing stuff.
Microsoft entered this business last year at about this same time + a month or so hoping to cash in on struggling people and started to give huge incentives if you buy stuff by searching for in on their search engine (35% cashback on ebay purchases! That was a sweet time! Too bad the best they did this season is measly 20% cashback with measly $200 limit per purchase).

In all honestly I would say that I would prefer if shops just charged the lowest possible amount and I would not be forced to jump through all the hoops.
But I guess it only makes sense for them to make it complicated. Unaware people just pay higher prices subsidizing even lower prices for sophisticated shoppers (and those who feels the time spent doing this is justified by the end result).

/me looks into the records - sigh, only saved around $2200 in rebates and cashback and other such stuff this year.

Muhuhu butler cafe better have some bishonen serving up the food neh? ;P
and ah happy 13th anniversary to you and your waifu :D:D We hope you both will be able to make the trip down to canada somehow :3!!! Muhuhu!

Nice. Always gets me even more motivated with my language studies reading these articles.

As for the aurora in Canada. I don't live there but since we have Aurora's every now and then in the winter here and this is on the same latitude as Yellowknife in Canada. I'd say Yellowknife is a good bet. ^^ I don't think that much of the Auroras though... Unless it's a really huge display, which is pretty darn rare.

All these pictures makes me yearn for my first trip to Tokyo in May though. Can't wait.

That's a lotta photo's. Soo which BMW issue you going to be in Danny? xD

"The lovely Horikita Maki." you can't disagree on this one.
Kinda miss the old style of A week in tokyo wherein there are different avenues opened.

Anyways, great post as usual.

Really love these photo's Danny, thanks for sharing :)

a week in tokyo = food because dany eat 7 days = 21 foods

Thanks for the lovely pictures again Danny. Enjoy them immensely!

Doctors here don't try to prescribe as many pills as they can. In fact most doctors I've been to try and give me tons of free samples instead of buying the medicine so it will save me money XD
As for painkillers, I can't take anything higher than ibuprofen. All the major painkillers like morphine, codeine, etc I am allergic too! So yes they kill pain but they also kill me! lol

We generally get slapped in the face with a wet dog here. I've found very few stores that actually care about their customers anymore. Most will treat customers like crap around here, especially walmart and bestbuy.

The guy in the BMW picture is so looking at her butt.

Awesome a week in Tokyo post as always, never get bored reading it. :)

Ah, another A Week in Tokyo article, I'm getting nostalgic about Japan again T_T 'Tis the season of Comiket but I don't think I can make it this time around so I'm really sad about it, doh.

hmmmmm....there's one thing that still amazes me about japanese food...."how the heck do they make the plastic display dishes look damn REAL!????"

"Tokimemo gets the pachinko treatment."

Tokimeki* I believe?

once again nice read danny-san love the foods and the places
dont know how different our doctors prescribe medicine, rarely go to them only when its realy realy serious
my lil sister is a nurse so if i feel something i would just ask her what to do or medicine to take
would kill too for those fast optic fiber internet connection! my broadbands at 256k feels mighty sloooow...
really rooting for those dslr camera if there were only secondhand store here too
and what that bunny suit for? armor?
Horikita Maki yay super kawaii =3

Once again Danny awesome pics, and for some reason I'm really hungry I don't know why!
You must come to Canada, and If you want to see the Aurora Borealis or "Northern Lights", you've got to go out west. Alberta, BC, or if you can handle the cold as far north as possible. I only saw them once when I lived in Calgary, and they were amazing.

Sweet pics again. These Week in Tokyo articles seem to be getting longer....don't forget to write up in time! :P

Hope you'll feel better soon too. Doctors over here are actually the opposite of Japanese docs....Only if you come crawling in with your spleen hanging out they may suggest you to take some time out; otherwise they just say 'it will pass'. More and more people tend to diagnose themselves on the smaller ailments and try to get a prescription directly ^^;

in reference to http://www.dannychoo.com/post/en/25307/A+Week+in+Tokyo+48.html#image84613, I guess it's bad to stand out; which I don't understand why. Should we not be independent?

I <3 Horikita Maki :D

Take care of yourself, Mr Danny! Although one's life might end at anytime, don't stress your body to the point that it would cause your very own demise! XD

Always a pleasure to read your weekly blogs, Danny. And always a mess to figure out what to comment on, lol. (Not that I'm complaining)

- So are there many people who give you all sorts of gifts just to get the Jimmy Choo's autographs?

- Laksa cookies? Seriously? lol

- Is that dimsum I see you having with the folks at Bushi Road in Shinjuku?

- I thought the BMW Magazine guys would at least give you a free trial of their latest 5 series. Guess they only trust the likes of Jeremy Clarkson for that task, huh? lol

Love the a week in tokyo series as usual.
Yes to butler cafe needed. :P
Maki chan is cute indeed.
Happy anniversary and get well soon! :)

i want that box of seafood

why does uniqlo use foreign models instead of japanese ones?

have you ever had a bad meal choo?

That building is a school !? Now that's the coolest school I've ever seen.

neh your office is already very big~~ i want that haruhi weirs schwarz card too!~

Fantastic photos & puchi impression, Danny

So much stuff happening....wishing you a speedy recovery danny....

happy anniversary! Antibiotics for a week in a gulp? here you have to take them 3x a day in pill form between 3 to 7 days (worked in a pharmacy) TOT I try to stay away from pain killers too, not good for the liver. however due to large prescription drug abuse in the US not many docs are willing to just give anyways. Grocery shopping looks interesting as it all looks cute! Stay healthy, looks like you will be busy again!

There's a cookie museum in Singapore? Lol.
That's quite a lot of seafood! Me love Octopus.
Imagine what will arrive if you send an autographed pair of heels over. Haha.

It seems you like a lot Mccafe for dindins. Lol.
That bunny suit for babies its very futuristic (image ID#84620)

Love the week in tokyo articles!! They need their own website.

Happy early anniversary. (^_^) On another note, all that food is making me hungry. *drool* lol

Great pics as always Danny. Until I actually get to Japan, I'll have to live it through you. Hope you don't mind?

Happy wedding anniversary!

http://www.dannychoo.com/post/en/25307/A+Week+in+Tokyo+48.html#image84594
Kagami ;>

Love japan fashion, its usually looking very cool ^w^

Great article:)
image ID#84620 - this somehow looks very weird..

Week in Tokyo articles are always interesting. All the colours, interesting merchandise, and food... :D

As for northern lights... You'd really have to go far north to the territories for a guaranteed view. I've only gone north(ern... Didn't go completely to territories) in the summer, so haven't seen them (Fall/winter are the seasons). Catch a flight to Yellowknife (Unless you want to drive from south, which is a whole other experience ^^;;)

Love your "Week in Tokyo" articles! Great photos, and the food always looks so delicious ^_^

Great photos and great week!

Puchi Kyoka's ahoge may be repairable if you pin it with something to reinforcing, like a nail or a piece of wire, in addition to gluing. My grandfather used to do that to my Breyer horses when their legs broke, and it worked a charm. Even after the glue wore down and stopped working, their legs stayed in place. Granted, they pivoted around the reinforcing nail in a slightly disturbing manner, but they stayed!

Butler cafe sounds awesome, actually. Bonus points if they manage to act in character archetypes a la Ouran.

Lovely Horikita Maki... She is a very beautiful person. Another great "A Week in Tokyo" article. Makes me smile when I read this. My Congratulations to you and your waifu - happy 13th anniversary and have a happy and great time in the next year (2010) Danny.

I wander what tastes better in the "image ID#84636"? ><

I also live in Canada, and I visit Ontario once a year, during the winter time, and more often than not I see the lights.

I just had a figure break on me :(
My stupid cat knocked her off the shelf and her foot snapped off, super glue worked wonders in this case, so all is well.
Love the pictures !

So excited for the Professor Layton movie!!!

Great photos! Would love to see some more about Uniqlo and what they sell - I'm really curious about it as will be visiting the one in New York pretty soon ^^

image 84578 - aww, Danny-san trying to be moe! :D

image 84585 - oh, my goodness, look at all the lovely seafood...that's one wonderful friend.

image 84599 - ...the menu in Yoshinoya Philippines is CLEARLY different from what you guys in Tokyo get. What's the bowl next to Kyoka? I assume it's a specific donburi; the Gyudon or other bowls of rice served here don't look like that....

image 84605 - I love the apple pies at mcdees; sometimes I go there just to get one and then eat it happily.

image 84619 - second-hand or not, WOW, DSLR do want.

image 84629 - I support the idea for a butler cafe! (is a Takarazuka Kagekidan fangirl)

image 84636 - pretty cake for a pretty daughter :) Of all your musume-tachi I like Aoi best. That doesn't mean I don't like the others - I just prefer her. She looks so cute and expressive.

Haha... that guy is looking at her bum.

As always, a good stack of photos. I wish I could speak Japanese, I would have jumped at that AmiAmi job.

5,000 Yen for 1 GB? Damn! We pay $145 USD for digital cable with Showtime/TMC and 10/1 MBit cable modem. I really wish the governmnet would get off it's ass and do what Japan did, force the telcos and cable companies to get high-speed out to everyone and cheap.

Oh, and early Happy Anniversary!

Here in Edmonton I saw northern lights a couple of times in late summer early fall was awesome. You must come to Canada and travel the Canadians Rockies, scenic and breath taking views everywhere. I will try to push here so you can be our guest ^^.

Love that back alley area of Shinjuku. It was a real surprise when I first stumbled across it - couldn't stop the camera with so many interesting things to shoot.

Had my first chicken "gizzards" yakatori at a little hole in the wall place on the right hand side of that pic (image ID#84614) about where the people are walking. Very tasty once I got my mind around it.

LOL I like that rabbit suit for babies! ^_^

Horikita Maki is finally looking a bit more grown up. Love that phone she has, if I could get it I would!

That is one heck of a week in Tokyo, great photos Danny.

your office looks very fun ^_^ thanks for the awesome photos

Would love to try Yakiniku some day.~
And Professor Layton is getting it's own movie!? I'll have to check that out once it's subbed. Never beaten either 2 games yet as well.. > <"

Japan is such a culinary heaven ~ so many wonderful treats ~ Bear Hall Lion fake samples look better than most real food lol ~ and interesting pizza ... are those chicken strips as the crusts? Do my eyes spy a fried apple pie at McD's? Those have been replaced in north america for baked pies for like over 10 years?

THAT BUNNY SUIT IS MECHTACULAR!!

You think we might see a 'Suddenly Aquired BMW' article one day?

Lot of time I wasnt commenting here...damn real life! ^__^ Anyway, let me start...

ID#84604
Nice decorations, and nice gallery too...this reminds me that it'll be Christmas i na few days and I've yet to start "presents shopping". Gotta do it!

ID#84612
That's a school? Let me guess, it's an art school or something like that. Anyway, it's a very nice building to look at, and I think students are happy to have the opportunity to study there.

ID#84614
This makes me think of "old" Japan, lovely^__^

ID#84621
Dont know bout you, but I could put some of these to a good use, that's for sure:-)

ID#84628/ID#84627
No offence Danny, but this ain't no pizza. Maybe it tastes good, but it's something else. Whenever you'll come to Italy, it'll be my pleasure to let you taste the real thing :-)

Later ^__^

What's in a Moyashi Ramen? And how does it taste? I only know Moyashimon anime, so I can't tell how it relates to it, lol.

WHAAA?? Professor Layton got a movie already?? Oh and from the looks of the poster, I thought it was a live action ^^;;

Hm hm! Still going after the Canada trip, eh? :) I only fly once a year it seems and probably won't do any flying in 2010 unless something good financially happens (ie. lottery).

wow you seem to like thai food a lot...next time you come to singapore, i can take you to the best thai in singapore.

Nice Pics and just a beautiful pic of the sky. I wish i lived in Japan.

Stayed at the Keio Plaza Hotel when I visited back in May. This post makes me want to run back over there for another week!

The pizza's advertisement is a cheat.... LOL

Around the world in 80 days !!! I would really really like that if I have almost a million yen in my pocket right now ^^;;

Professor Lanton movie !!! Haven't played the game yet

It seems Danny is back for more in Singapore ^^

Gotta love those UFO Catchers especially for Lucky Star

try watching Funny Vids to make you laugh because laughter is the best medicine

Looking like one very busy week, heard your Dad mentioned on BBC radio, making shoes for charity.

Congratulations on your upcoming anniversary, I get married in ten days!

Is that the Lion Beer hall by any chance? The Dubliners pub above it is awesome!

I love so much "A Week in Tokyo"!!! It literally hurts that I'm not there yet...

I wonder what a foreign without money could do to get there! I mean, to be allowed to live there, to get the Visa.

Looks like a fun weekend, lots of what looks like fantastic food.

seeing these pictures, I miss my trip I made to Japan (I want to go back there again ... T_T)
most foods seem very tasty.

Awesome, a new Week in Tokyo, my favourite part of dannychoo.com! d(^.^)b

Danny, just want to let you know that you may have difficulties in seeing the northern lights here. I lived in a suburb city of Ottawa (called Kanata; almost no light pollution whatsoever) for 7 years; during my almost daily night-time strolls in the surrounding forests and meadows, I only saw them 3 or 4 times. I've been living in Toronto for 5 years now and I haven't seen them at all. You'd have to go far north in the winter and hope you're lucky ^^

I've been lurking for a while but registered last week for the Otacool contest. Danny, you are one of my role models and a testament to the power of determination, keep being awesome! :D

ooh,Singapore CGM night in singapore?who can we expect,any age limit/restrictions?

Such ridiculous internet prices you guys have over there. Have to pay $30 USD a month for 1.5 Mbps here. A 1 Gbps line would be amazing...

Nice work. Foods looks good. Just love how the pizza and food in general always ends up looking COMPLETELY different when actually being served.

Your internet prices are dirt cheap! I used to pay 30USD for 3.0 Mbps, but due to being 3 miles away from the company, only got 1.5 Mbps out of it. Heck, even with cable now, it's 50 USD for 8 Mbps. There isn't enough competition for lower prices in my neck of the woods. Gotta settle for whatever is in my area.

Congrats Ricky, live it up. And that Professor Layton film looks great!

Favorite drink in Japan-Real Gold! As for the docs, when I was teaching I went a few times. They didn't give me that many pills but I was in Osaka so it might be different down there....You should try to eat less. Japanese food has a lot of additives in it that can make you sick so be careful and eat more veggies and fruits. Also drink more water!

OMG. I want see KANAME in butler cafe lol! :DD

what do you mean by bag everything up yourself? You mean you have to pack all the items into the plastic bag by yourself? o.O

Electronics store Sakuraya.

Puchi Kyouka - sweetest Nendoroid ever.

moeoh!!! XD

Taiga wants food! Danny! Feed meh :<

Someone mentioned low bags.
Bag and pants worn low.

I have a question, related to daily life in Tokyo. Danny maybe some others can answer.
The story goes, like this. My cousin went over to Tokyo recently to study and wanted to try out the Pachinko machines. Because he's seen it and wanted to try a new experience. Then his Japanese friend said, oh no you can't or should not go. None of his friends would take him, saying its full of gangsters and bad people. Just wondering if it is really that bad to just try a bit. I've known other people that went and they never said anything bad about the experience, but they were foreigners though.

Heya Danny! Long time reader but finally registered.
Love the site! If ya don't mind me asking, what kinda camera do you use for your figure/food/city photos? They're always so nice! I may need a new camera for my next Japan trip ^-^ Thanks!

Ninja mode... Hey Danny, how did you install this jQuery on all your images so quick?

Feed ME!

Nissan Versa

The only one without glasses!

Haruhi is co cute. Want!
これを欲しい！

The week seemed quite busy, huh? ^ ^;

lol I love this. Its like you are labeled.

What is up with those crazy pizza toppings?!

the Tokyo Mode Gakuen building looks so sweet. The artist from the first part of that commercial has to be "Rockin Jelly Bean" which just makes me more psyched about finding out more about Tokyo Mode Gakuen.

Thanks so much for sharing, as always.

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Orange!

I've always liked this building.

でも、ただのカルピスは美味しいでしょう。

I love Tokyo week posts!!!

5000yen for 1gb unlimited? WOW in NZ best plan is around $80 (US $65-ish) for 25gb capped. FML