ramenz

My friend Miho came over and made me ramen on Christmas Eve.  I have some good friends.

クリマスエブは私の友達みほさん、僕の家来ました。ラーメン作りました。美味しかったよ〜　本当に良い仲良しいるよ。良かった　：D

Funny Sam vid by a viewer

lulz

South Korea friggin’ PWNZ

the red, white, and blue...and black

Yoyoyo!

How long has been since the last post?  I really don’t remember, but anywayz, thought I would give you all an update on whats been up with your favorite Tkyo-ite lately.  Well, aside from staying in my house with sweat pants, a hoody, and nice heater next to me, nothing else, it’s fuckin’ COLD here!  Not that it is SUPER cold or anything, but like I’ve said before, Japanese apts./houses are known for not having awesome insulation.

Well, back to the topic.  DUDEZ!  South Korea fuckin’ pwnz!  I realized that it would be around the same price to travel anywhere far in Japan roundtrip as it would be to fly from Japan to Korea round trip.  So why not go?  I’ve been watching a lot of Korean dramas and been even learning Hangul.  Kind of doing 50/50 Alljapaneseallkoreanallthetime which is fun, because it really helps me appreciate all the Japanese I have learned up until now.  Like watching shit in Korean and not having a clue what they are saying without subs and then turning on my Japanese tv and undestanding a good 70%.  Pretty fuckin’ kick ass.

The plan is to go there in late March and stay til early April.  The yen is really strong so accomodation, transportation, and food aren’t going to be that unreasonable, like hell, I even saw some guesthouse for as cheap as 1000yen a night!
Well, thats all for now, I think I’ll post another video now.

laterz

-Sam

Asakusa and Guesthouse advice

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I used to live in this really cool guesthouse in Tokyo called Khaosan.  This place was first started up by this couple (Tomio and Maki) because they loved traveling and they thought why not make a cheap/awesome place for people to stay where they were currently living (in Asakusa)?  They place is run by 3 managers (Michiko, Masa and Akira) and they are all very cool people and are always willing to help out the guests more than they need to.

The reason why I like Guest Houses over Youth Hostels is because guesthouses (short term accomodation) unlike Youth Hostels they:

-Don’t try to sell you anything (aka-give you lockers  to use, but you have to buy your own locks, have washing machines, but no washing liquid, etc.).
-Internet usuage is free
-Kitchen is bigger than a small closet
-No curfew!

At youth hostels they try to provide all the neccessities to all the travelers coming in, but at the guesthouse they are located near all those things anyway, so people only have to go a couple feet to get them outside the guesthouse.  The curfew thing is also a big deal, because even though the trains stop at midnight in Japan there are still a lot of fun things to do after midnight, but when the trains do start up again you wanna be able to get get back to your bed without having to wait til 9am for the doors at the hostel to open.

If you wanna know more, please check out Khaosan’s website:

http://www.khaosantokyo.com

also check out:

http://www.hostelworld.com

Kool, stay black.

-Sam

Sam’s Big in Japan 17-”Tkyosam meets TkyoGabe”

A little late to post this on the blog, but thought I would put a little back story to this here for the people who read this blog. So my brother still lives in the U.S and has never really left our home town, so when he came here he got hit with culture shock, HARD. But, aside from him retreating into my apartment for the last part of his trip in Japan, the times when I forced him to go out really did help, get some good footage at least. He stayed here for about a month and then headed off to Australia where he could be with white people who spoke ENglish, lol.

Anywayz, thats it, you all stay black.

Sam out