Tadaimatte

A box of tapes on their way out of the library The Japan Foundation Toronto is moving , and though that means a lot of changes and adju...

Cramped business hotel bathroom is still pretty neat. This is called a "system bath" or a "unit bath" style - it was...

Last weekend, in a fit of weakness (spent the entire day practicing either yosakoi  or tea ceremony ), I ordered myself a pizza. I came ho...

Conservation of floor space. Yes, that is a futon set up in that closet, the perfect size for short people!

My photoshop skills, visually summed up I don't often write about my job at  〇〇 High School or my students, mostly out of courtesy...

I love this description. Taken at a restaurant in Rokko, Hyogo Prefecture, near Kobe.

If you've never heard of the Takarazuka Revue, let me open up this post with an image: Tsuki-gumi's newest production, Romeo ...

Not sure if Irish. When I'd been in Japan about a year or so, my friend Marisa told me that one of her friends from university wa...

I know a few people who'll appreciate this  one. Recently I've been seeing ads pop up on my Facebook sidebar for deal-sharing s...

Two little mascots of Kusatsu, Gunma Prefecture - they are manjuu ,   a type of sweet usually filled with red bean paste, Each have the o...

This is possibly the coolest sento  I have ever seen. Just had to share this post from the Letters From Daiba blog with you all! Is th...

One of the things I really like about the washroom setup in Japan is the division between the room for bathing and the toilet room. In m...

Oh my gosh. I dislike Pepsi, but I did love trying out whatever gimmick Pepsi Japan was trying next. I just wish I was in Japan for this on...

Washlet toilets are often the first awesome/confusing things foreigners experience in Japan - right in Narita Airport. Luckily, this on...

Hello everyone, and welcome to my new blog - Tadaimatte. As a bit of background, I returned from living abroad in Japan a little more tha...