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Super Ichiban Travel Blog Part XIX: Epilogue [II]

No Game Overview today, we’re gonna finish this up since I didn’t get to it today (World Series business) And so it came to pass that I went to Japan, saw some baseball, and came back home with a greater appreciation and understanding of Japan. If you remember the first entry in this series, I […]

6 November 2009
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 […]

29 October 2009
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 […]

27 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 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 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