Tag: seibu
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Super Ichiban Travel Blog Part XVII: In Which Our Hero Casually Greets Professional Players [II]
The last full day of the trip! Even though I was ready to go home, it still felt like I had unresolved business out in Japan. I wanted to go home and be back in my apartment and not traveling, but I also wanted to stay and watch more Japanese baseball and chow down on […]
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Super Ichiban Travel Blog Part XVI: Unstoppable Force, Meet Immovable Object [II]
When you’re on a 2.5 week trip, it hardly seems like it’s ever going to end, but it was my last day in Tokyo and it felt pretty surreal. It would be my last chance to tie up all my loose ends, so I headed out to get my final souvenirs and replace that stupid […]
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Super Ichiban Travel Blog Part XIV: The One Where We Miss Darvish [II]
Three days in Sapporo. One to fly in, one to catch a game, and one to fly out. We really only needed two, but the remote location and the unpredictability of flights and baseball game lengths warrant three. It’s a real shame too, because if we had rolled our arrival date into our baseball watching […]
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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 ChÅ«goku region in general. Nowhere else in Japan did I see such devotion to a baseball team […]