pleasant grove (question 1)

this is the first segment of a possible future series of video responses to questions about life in japan from the students of pleasant grove elementary school (inverness, florida).

question 1: "what is a traditional japanese dish?"

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chicken stallone's

this is a local chain, "yamachan." it has some pretty good food at reasonable prices. they're pretty popular for their chicken wings. the mascot (i dunno if it's a real person) looks like sylvester stallone dressed in a chicken costume.

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click here to read a break down of the chicken eating instructions above brought to you by my buddies at hikanninja.

nagoya new year's hustle

no grand plans, crazy light shows or drunken bar fights. antonette and i decided to spend our new year's at a traditional celebration at a local temple. we made it in the nick of time. even though this year has already started off crappy, happy new year everyone!

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cigarette bin at tokyu hands.

antonette and i were shopping around the corner from our apartment at a popular department store, "tokyu hands" and came across this huge bin of used cigarette cases. i think they might be a collector's item... maybe... not sure, but i thought it was still bizarre.

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kaiyukan aquarium

it's another day during our vacation in osaka and antonette and i decided to visit osaka's famous kaiyukan aquarium. they're famous for having not one, but two whale sharks. take a look.

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the kanadian in kobe

while staying in osaka over the winter break we decided to take the short train ride over to kobe to meet a popular youtube japan blogger, "busankevin."kevin took us around kobe and showed us some of the cool sights. be sure to check out his cool vidds of kobe. 

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himeji castle, mother of all japanese castles.

antonette and i skipped town and decided to spend a few days in the kansai region. it's pretty far away, but if you take the shinkansen (the bullet train) it's only a 50 min. train ride from nagoya. more footage of that later.

we spent our first day traveling to himeji, a city famous for it's castle. himeji castle is one of twelve japanese castles still standing in their original condition. it's also the largest. below is a 2 part video of the castle followed by a slideshow. take a look.

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