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greetings from Shinjuku - Page 2

awesome video posted on gizmodo. it's of the Shinjuku cluster of skyscrapers.

http://vimeo.com/4014102

i see they finally finished that pineapple shaped building. that was pretty cool watching them build it.

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A brief foray back to the pachinko discussion...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYkw-5htPw0

And we now return you to your regular programming...

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Just come back from another 2 weeks in Japan, again all work in the Tokyo area but did make a few trips at the weekend. Did Mt. Fuji and the Hakone - unfortunately it rained the whole day :-(
Harajuku was very good on the Sunday - a lot of Rockers and Harajuku girls out..
Had dinner one night on the 52nd floor of the Sumitomo building in Shinjuku, what a great veiw of Tokyo - glad I wasn't paying the bill!

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Yeah, there was a torrential downpour the second day we were in Hakone... That and the crazy-ass bus ride back down the mountain, after I had eaten a bit too much kamaboko and oden made that the worst part of the whole visit in Japan.

But this shot made up for it.

Chris

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Did you eat any of the black '7 year' eggs?

I visited Miraikan n Sunday - this is the museum of science and innovation. Really worth a visit (the trip of the Rainbow bridge also is great - what a view..)

Lots of robots and they also have a VR cave (but it was closed when I visited)..

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We did partake in the consumption of some of the kurotamago at Owakudani, yes. Not 7-year, though, they're basically hard-boiled eggs that just have been cooked in the sulphur spring.

(The picture's not the best; it's just a thumbnail-type pic. We're heading off to a cruise in the Bahamas in an hour, so I don't have time to clean it up...)

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The 7 year is the life extension you have eating the egg, not the age of the egg.
I have seen 'thousand year' eggs in China - they smell rancid!

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maxsleg wrote:
The 7 year is the life extension you have eating the egg, not the age of the egg.

I thought it was your life expectancy after eating the egg ...

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I have seen 'thousand year' eggs in China - they smell rancid!

Yeah, every seven-eleven in town has buckets of the nasty things bubbling away in a witch'es cauldron. Even the dog won't eat those things.
after some of the food I've had in China - they are probably not that bad...
I had fried scorpions in Chengdu and some of the things in Shenzhen....

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I think you can get fried fried over there

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maxsleg wrote:
The 7 year is the life extension you have eating the egg, not the age of the egg.


Oh, ok! I had no idea there was supposed to be some sort of lifespan extension after eating some of those.

Wonder if there's a loss of lifespan if you buy some and forget that you bought some? That's exactly what my sister did -- we bought a bunch, ate half of them while we were there, then she forgot that she put the rest in the fridge at the ryokan. ;-)

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Hey - I am back over in Japan in January for FOE http://www.foe.jp/en/ - anyone around for that?

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maxsleg wrote:
Hey - I am back over in Japan in January ...

That's just a hop, skip, and a short ride in a Mitsubishi away from me ! Why don't you zoom on over for a visit ?
I spent 1 day in Shenzhen in October - it was enough time to realise why I don't like to be in China!

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