The Path of Martial Arts: Electric City

Welcome or Yookoso

Yookoso,

This Blog has been put together as part of my travels around the globe to study martial arts. The first part of my blog and the contents of it will be focused on the study of the Japanese arts. So I am travelling to Japan on 31st May 2010 to start my journey.
I am a strong believer that all forms of martail arts have their strong and weak points. As many great masters will tell you, to understand the way of your enemy (opponent) is to defeat them.
I take no side with any one martial art, but I do believe that a person must study a system or style to it's fullest to gain a greater understanding before the weakness or strengths can be identerfied.
Therefore I have devoted my lift to the martial arts.

Japanese Tip list.

Japanese Tip list

I want people from all over the place to help with this so if you have been to Japan and have a good tip let me know. Send the Tip to my Email address then I can post it. makiofska@gmail.com

Also if you know of some where cool to go that is also welcome, send them in.

Ok I have three tips and thats from the frist week. So by the end we should have loads.

Tip 1. Don't take lighters on the planes in Japane. Not cool.

Tip 2. Do take gifts they have gone down a strom. This must have been the best tip yet.

Tip 3. If your going to use the train in Toky and or buses get a PassMo card. Its like the English Oyster card. Don't worry if you can't speak Japanese all of the ticket machine can be changed to english. Sweet.

Tip4. Don't use the train if you can help it between 6:00pm and 8:00pm so meany such small trains. Its not the faced they just cram as meany people on as they can but every one needs to be doing something, PSP, reading a book or news paper. I almost punshed him.

Keep them coming

Thursday, 10 June 2010

Electric City

Sorry for the delay on this one. So much to do so little time.

Tokyo has large districts or area devoted to just one or two subjects. Some for sports or cloths shops its parable like this in London but I've never noticed it. Akihabara is the Electronic Center of the Tokyo or maybe even the world. Its this massive set of street and allies crammed full of shops selling every thing form cameras to Electric hair brushes. (I'm not a girl so I don't quite get the electronic hair brush thing.)It is also home to the Otaku. (We might call them Geek's, but its cool to be square in Japan.)

Akihabara is also an Anime and Manga heaven. Shops selling every thing from Cosplay to DVD. Some shops Are completely devoted to one TV series or film i.e. Gundam, Gundam is the longest running TV cartoon in the world and has the title of the most episode and films for any show now to man. (Cool or what? Maybe I've become an Otaku.) There is a Gundam shop That only sells models of the giant battle robots or Gundams. This shop has 6floors and is amazing.
There are also loads of these game were you use a grab to pic up toys. When I say load I mean every other shop maybe. Then out side there are girls in maid's outfits trying to get you in it's a little odd. Also loads of pin ball machines but you win money in these machines not points but they are every where to. There are two of these in are local high street. Japanese people like a little flutter.