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I finally got some photos of my recent workspace and submitted to figure.fm for the Otacool 3 Workspace. Here is what I submitted.

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My copy of Art Space Tokyo arrived, actually it arrived on March 8th. I just never got time to blog about it until now.

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Came across Craig Mod‘s site while looking for more Lumix GF1 info.  Craig posted his field test of GF1, what a delight to read his travel field test page.

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These are some older photos I took during my first trip to Tokyo in 2003 October. It was a lot of fun. I met with friends of friends whom I have never met before and thanks to them, my first experience in Tokyo could not have been better.

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Most of these day time photos are taken around residential areas.  I really like the residential areas of Tokyo more than the busy streets and malls.  Don’t get me wrong, the malls are great and I love being seeing nice decorations and nicely designed buildings.  However there is something about the peaceful feeling of residential streets that draws my attention.

Japanese houses are compact and yet they are designed to utilized the space within very well.  If you remember some of the photos that Danny posted on his blog, you will realize that the stair case is very space saving.  Compare to what we typically have in Vancouver, their stair case takes up only about half the area and yet be very functional. Continue reading

Just thought I would share some of the night time photos we took during the trip here. I shared some in the previous posts already but I think I like to group the other ones here as a photo post. Enjoy.

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One of the many great things about visiting Tokyo is it’s transportation system.  The city is very well connected by trains and highways.

Study this train route diagram.  On top, there are the two big numbers indicating the direction of travel and the corresponding platform number.  In the middle is an alphabet indicate the train line (each train line got a different alphabet).  And in the diagram below shows numbered train stations (the circled number below the route) and the number of minutes from the current station to the other stations (number within the route).  The name of the current station is highlighted in red (station E03).  The two arrows below the current station tells you the direction in relation to all the stations (the font and the font weight is proportional to the direction number at the top of the diagram).  And if you look at the lower right hand site, you will see that E17 takes 27 minutes if you use platform 2, and would take longer than 29 minutes if you take platform 1.  Also a lot of stations are connected to other train lines as illustrated by the different color circles on top of each station number.  With all this information, you can tell your friends exactly where you are, traveling in which direction and the approximate time of arrival without ambiguity.  I love graphic communication in Asia. Continue reading

Our friends took us to their family restaurant here in Nippori.  It is a Korean BBQ restaurant.  We are so excited to finally having to taste authentic Korean food.   I really like the BBQ grill they use.  It is not seen in Vancouver. Continue reading