AC in JP: Parting Views

On my last full day in Tokyo I finally took some time to enjoy the view from my 18th-floor room, with a little help from a local burger chain…
Click here for the official legend of the distant skyline and be sure to check out my other Japan photos in a dedicated Flickr set. You can [...]

AC in JP: My @home café Otaku Maid Bar Review

There are but five food items on the menu at Akihabara’s famous @home café: 2 variants each of cheesecake & ice cream parfait and “spughetti”. My chocolate parfait was a generous-enough serving but suffered from too much whipped cream and strangely, a bottom layer of corn flakes underneath the two scoops of frozen dairy on [...]

AC in JP: Ghibli Museum

On rare occasions, it pays to be a dumb tourist — or at least look the part…
One of the landmarks I was hoping to visit during this Tokyo trip was the Ghibli Museum. If you didn’t know, Studio Ghibli is the Japanese equivalent of Disney, or more appropriately Pixar. 2003’s Spirited Away won an Oscar [...]