Japan
March 22 Sunday, Hartford to Detroit, Detroit to Sapporo, then Osaka. (diverted
from Tokyo due to federal express crash)
March 23 Monday arrive in Osaka. Train to Shin-Osaka. Tempura
udon at station. Stay at New Osaka Hotel
March 24 Tuesday Onigiri meal from mini market
; obento bought on shinkansen; after
Kishimoto lab dinner at Aobadai chinese restaurant
Kobayashi - Kishimoto - Ohsumi
& Hara - Tachibana - Ohsumi
and Hara - Ohsumi gives farewell speech - Ohsumi
says something funny -
March 25 Wednesday hotel breakfast 1 - 2; lunch at
Ochanomizu university cafeteria (tama tama udon) Ochanomizu
gate
Chiba's house - broccoli rabe from Emiko's garden - sashimi - pickled
fish - maitake - sake - chicken - greens - sausages -
a yuzu from the garden - ume okashi
March 26 breakfast - very partial
view of Mt Fuji -
female Buddha - long walk with Hirohashi (forgot to
take picture) to Asakusa - ramen
lunch - kirin
advertisement on its side - asakusa 1 - 2 - capsule
hotel ~$37 / night - chinese restaurant dinner
1 - 2
March 27 - breakfast - Tateyama
marine station - lounge - teaching
lab - view from dorm room - dorm
room - a deep sea crinoid 1 - 2 - a
deep sea echinoid underneath - top view - deep
sea sea urchin - another - local
sea urchin - mollusk and its eggs
dinner at Kiyomoto-san's house 1 - 2 - 3
(nabe) -
Kiyomoto-san, Ne-ne, Takuto
March 28 - dorm breakfast - natto
(I ate it!) - plankton tow from Tokyo bay
Marina Dan-Sohkawa's house 1 - 2 - 3
(guest room) - 4 (view from guest room) - rice
paddy time lapse - lunch
in tateyama (squid tempura soba) - the restaurant - Marina - rice
paddies on a big hill - Jean Clark Dan (right) - dinner
1 -2 - 3 the chef, Marina's
husband
March 29 - breakfast 1 (homemade jams by Dan-san) - 2 - 3 - dinner (shibuya)
1 - 2 - 3
March 30 -
breakfast - dinner
March 31 - Hara-san's thesis defense 1 - 2 -- Lunch
afterwards - Dinner in aobadai 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - Hasan - table
April 1 - Tokyu Hands scene
April 2 - breakfast 1 - 2 - 3 - Chiba at Ochadai - cherry blossoms 1 - 2
April 3 - scramble crossing (shibuya)
Hawaii
April 3 (relive this day due to international date line) - visit Taiji
house - house across the street - 5 min walk to ocean: pier - diamond
head - you could swim!
hawaiian flowers - lunch at restaurant -
whole foods (it looks the same except a few items): hawaiian fish 1 - 2 - 3
Miya,
less than 2 years old, can take a picture with iPhone (I know a professor
who can't do this!)
mudskipper 1 - 2 - 3 --
big aquarium: lionfish
April 4 Hanauma Bay - from above 1 - 2 - it
was cold at first -
fishes 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 -
6 - 7 - 8 -
9 - movies 1 - 2 - 3
April 5 Manoa Falls Trail - 1- 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6
(destination) - hit the spot - it started to rain
and became slippery, so Taiji
had to carry this all the way down! - also hit the spot: shaved ice 1 - 2 (Devin,
Taiji)