Of Toys and Co

Last of the National Palace Museum (故宮) photos and the conclusion of our [too] short Taipei trip :( Here are some really intricate carvi...

Still more photos from the National Palace Museum (故宮) ! We're almost through, folks. Almost. These are of metal-crafts in a religiou...

Even more photos from the National Palace Museum (故宮) , this time of the ceramic and calligraphy collections. Click to zoom.

More photos from the National Palace Museum (故宮) . These are from the jade collection. TL;DR: jades were tools first before they became j...

After snacking through brunch at Yongkang Street, hubby and I thought to go back to the National Palace Museum . It was a rainy day when a ...

Got a pair of free tickets for Murakami Takashi: The 500 Arhats Exhibition in the Mori Art Museum, so we went on a weekend back in mid Dec...

Enormous post ahead! Clickable photos = zoom. On one fine September Saturday at the end of Silver Week , hubby and I decided to go see ...

So...I suspect this post might be boring if you're not a Gundam fan. Hubby and I aren't fans either, but we heard great things abo...

For a Sunday afternoon, we met up with a friend who's a semi-conducting engineer for Toshiba . Her name is H. and she's sort of my ...

During our time in San Francisco, I've actually toured  Alcatraz Island  twice, once with two colleagues who were there during an intern...

The day after our day trip to Beitou , it rained again, so me, my sister, hubby, and his Japanese colleague A-san all agree this calls for i...

The Friday before we made our big move back to the US of A, our friends N., M., and K. took off from work to spend a day with us in Yokoham...

Hubby loves astronomy so he was looking forward to visiting the Nagoya City Science Museum for its world largest solar-powered planetarium....

If you are a fan of Hayao Miyazaki or of any Studio Ghibli 's production, you should definitely visit the  Ghibli Museum in Mitaka , T...

On another sunny weekend, hubby and I reminisced on the MET and opted to visit the Tokyo National Museum instead. I guess the point here ...

For one of our stops, hubby and I took my sister and brother to the Ramen Museum at Shin-Yokohama for lunch. Hubby and I have been there b...

Following the serendipitous meeting of N. at Yodobashi Yokohama a few weeks ago, hubby and I made a new friend. I must say we were damn lu...