A monorail. It's taken a couple of months to get all my photos together, but I've finally chosen my favorites from my third year of living in Japan. It's been another eventful year, personally and proffessionaly. I've moved on to a different job, seen friends leave Japan, been travelling, and finally booked a plane ticket … Continue reading Japan: a third year in photos
Cherry-blossom season has all but drawn to a close in Japan, but there is just time for one more Sakura themed Conbini food review before the long wait until next spring. Given the relative disappointment of the Cherry Blossom-Flavored donut from the last review, we hope for better things from this Sakura red bean bun. … Continue reading Conbini food review: Sakura red bean bun
First, an issue of terminology. Is it doughnut or donut? As someone required to teach American English for work, I would normally be required to say donut. But, obviously, the actual answer is doughnut. Sakura season has come to Japan, and with the beautiful pink flourishes of blossom coated trees dotting the days of March … Continue reading Conbini food review: Cherry Blossom-Flavored doughnut
We're finally venturing into the world of convenience store wraps, there's a lot to say here but I'll try not to get too wrapped up in the details. This range of wraps comes from FamilyMart and I decided to go with butter chicken curry to give myself something a little out of the ordinary to … Continue reading Conbini food review: Butter Chicken Curry Tortilla
Full disclosure is very important, and with that in mind I must mention that this is not the first time I've eaten Karage-kun. I have had them plenty of times, and tried all but maybe one flavour. For this review I'm having the regular flavour, so as to experience the original intentions of Karage-kun's creators. … Continue reading Conbini food review: Karage-kun
In the fourth ever Conbini food review we've got a product from Lawson the last (and definitely the worst) of the big three Conbinis. We're looking here at something from their Natural Lawson product line. I'm going to refer to these as Brown Edamame Snack, because that's what the English says on the packet. But … Continue reading Conbini food reviews: Brown Edamame Snack
The first Conbini Food Review from Family Mart, the second of the big three (and in some opinions the best) convenience store. Family Mart has plenty of excellent food, and we will be reviewing lots of it in the near future, but for now we're going for a relative unknown: 大きいウェイナー or, literally, Big Weiner. … Continue reading Conbini food reviews: Weiner
For the second ever Conbini food review I'm trying something a little more ordinary than the fruits sandwich I had last time: cup noodles. Now before we start, a short sidenote: it took me two attempts to do this review. During the first attempt I managed to clumsily knock the entire cup of just about … Continue reading Conbini food reviews: soy sauce cup noodles
This is the start of a new series in which I review food from Japanese convenience stores so you don't have to/because you don't want to/you can't because you're not in Japan. Japanese convenience stores (conbini) are about as central to daily life in this country as you could imagine. You can do almost anything … Continue reading Conbini food reviews: fruits sandwich
Shibuya Crossing on Christmas night 2020 (the camera clock was incorrectly set a day ahead) It's been nearly a year since I wrote anything for this website: a summary of my favourite photography from my first year in Japan. I've just reached the end of my second, and the start of my third, year living … Continue reading Japan: another year in photos
Ben Dean-Titterrell 