In Tokyo I visited Ninja Akasaka a ninja themed restaurant. The ninjas prepare the food for you (food always tastes better after it has been set on fire by a ninja) and there is a magic show as well. Some…
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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Nokogiriyama
I did a day trip from Toyko to Nokogiriyama (Sawtooth mountain) in Chiba prefecture. It is a mountain with an interesting viewing platform with a great view. The mountain also has a temple that is home to the largest Buddha…
Monkey Bounty Hunters
In a desperate bid to contain the escalating monkey problem in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture, authorities are offering the public 200,000 yen to capture any of the Japanese macaques causing problems. To successfully earn the bounty, citizens have to successfully lock…
Tokyo Computer Games Show
On the way to Tokyo I stopped at Shizuoka. Near Higashi-Shizuoka railway station they’ve assembled a giant Gundam robot. All hail our new robotic overlords. In Tokyo I visited the Tokyo Game Show, the biggest computer games expo in the…
Faceless Baby Monkey Towns
I arrived in Japan a couple of weeks ago. I visited friends in Osaka and then went out to Kanazawa. It has one of Japan’s most famous gardens – Kenrokuen. Then I stayed overnight in Shirakawa-Go in Gifu Prefecture. The…
WorldCon Report
I recently spent five glorious days at the World Science Fiction Convention in Melbourne. It was my third WorldCon. Australia has hosted four World Science Fiction conventions (all of them in Melbourne), roughly one every ten years. I went to…
Fantasy Magazine Interview
Fantasy Magazine interviewed me about my story Stone Flowers http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/2010/09/aidan-doyle-children-sometimes-notice-things-that-adults-dont/
