(word bk) james brandon king

my poster finally arrived

After about a month of traveling from Berlin Germany. Poster by Eboy.

found on the streets of Tokyo

Cool little vintage shop i stumbled upon in Shibuya

The placement of these bansky (well known street artist) stencils is so random and low-key i have no reason to believe they aren’t real. They were in the small hallway on the 4th floor leading to this very well done vintage shop. I asked the lady if i could take a few photos of her […]

Akihabara ( ahkey ha bah-rah ) a.k.a. Electric Town

When I told my friend in Tokyo that I was staying here she replied “why do you want to be where all the geeks are at!?”
So yeah, this is where you go to find all things electronic and lots of anime. I killed some time here before I met up with Mayumita later in the […]

New Koyo Hostel

New Koyo Hostel – It wasn’t too bad overall. This was my first time staying at a backpacker. My thoughts when I was sitting in my tiny room was that i’m getting too used to staying in nice hotels. Other than my personal issues with not having my own bathroom or shower it, was ok.
I […]

First day notes on Japan:

looking out towards Russia

This is Tokyo

The chick on the airplane was far from friendly

Tokyo airport was clean and quite easy to get out of

I was a only a little unsure of where I was going

The hostel, K’s House Tokyo, was farily easy to get to

I changed my mind

I’m sitting at JFK with about 45 minutes till my flight leaves and i’m playing around on the ‘net. I decide to look up more about the hostel i booked and come to find out it is pretty janky! well for 25 bucks what did i expect? Anyhow, I found another place called K’s House […]

tickets to kyoto

Kate, my friend who is in Japan for a year participating in the JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme) was kind enough to purchase and send me my train tickets to Kyoto. I arrive in Tokyo Thursday afternoon (november 22nd) and head out on the next morning on the Shinkansen aka the Japanese bullet train. […]