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Category: International Incident

Super Ichiban Travel Blog Part XIII: Beware the Ninth Ward [II]

Boy, it’s gonna be tough to meaningfully fill these next few posts, since this day was mostly filled with travel (and no baseball) and the next is filled with baseball and not a whole lot of sightseeing, but I’ll do my best to make this as interesting as possible. Since we were staying in Kyoto, […]

15 October 2009
Super Ichiban Travel Blog Part XII: The Curse of the Colonel [II]

This was one of the days I was most looking forward to on the trip. The Hanshin Tigers may not have the raw popularity of the Yomiuri Giants, but they’ve definitely got the most rabid fanbase in the entire country. Beyond that, Koshien Stadium is said to be the “soul of Japanese baseball,” most likely […]

13 October 2009
Super Ichiban Travel Blog Part XI: “That’s my wife. You no touch.” [II]

Folks, from here on out, the SITB (that’s Super Ichiban Travel Blog for the uninitiated) will be shifted to a Tuesday/Thursday(/maybe Saturday) schedule (there are really only nine or so posts left, including this one) so that the blog can return to its regularly scheduled programming on MWF. The MLB playoffs have started and here […]

8 October 2009
Super Ichiban Travel Blog Part X: Boredom on the Orient Express [II]

Ok, so I’m being a little dramatic in the title, but with David gone and most of the day occupied by riding bullet trains across Japan, the day was definitely on the dull side. Most of the train ride was spent playing Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor, an SRPG whose setting is within the JR […]

7 October 2009
Super Ichiban Travel Blog Part IX: It’s A Small World [II]

The day opened with some sadness. David, who had already missed a week’s worth of school, had to finally head home. In fact, most of the tour was going home unless they paid to go to Tokyo Disney Sea or had other plans in Japan to attend to and once that was done, we’d be […]

5 October 2009
Super Ichiban Travel Blog Part VIII: Tokyo Drift [II]

Here we are on the last (full) day of the Main Tour. It would be the last day that Dave and I were together in Japan, so we decided to hit up all our Tokyo loose ends. That mostly meant wandering around getting the last of our souvenirs and checking out some of the famous […]

5 October 2009
Super Ichiban Travel Blog Part VII: i believe lions [II]

After an intense and draining day, it was finally time to get back to Tokyo for the last leg of the main tour and to catch some more baseball action! It’s hard not to love Hiroshima and the Chūgoku region in general. Nowhere else in Japan did I see such devotion to a baseball team […]

1 October 2009
Super Ichiban Travel Blog Part VI: Baseball Off-Day [II]

Our first baseball off-day and we spent it traveling throughout the area. From Hiroshima we headed out to Iwakuni, Miyajima, and then back to Hiroshima to see the Peace Memorial. The morning started off with the usual optional day tour to see the sights in the area. Dave and I were eager to head to […]

13 September 2009
Super Ichiban Travel Blog Part V: Temples, Taxis, and the (Hiroshima) Toyo Carp [II]

Today’s story is no ordinary tale. It is the story of how two otherwise ordinary men became extraordinary. This is the story of how Dave and I overcame obstacles and became the Official Japanball Vice-Presidents of Diplomatic Affairs (and then went to a baseball game). It started on a day like any other. Dave and […]

12 September 2009
Super Ichiban Travel Blog Part IV: In Which Our Heroes Depart Tokyo for Kyoto [II]

A day of baseball behind us, our tour was now set to depart Tokyo and journey east to Kyoto, the former capital of Japan. That means that we would get a chance to ride the famous bullet trains for the first time. After a quick taxi to Tokyo Station, Dave and I found ourselves waiting […]

10 September 2009