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The Ghibli Museum

November 2, 2006

20 minutes from Central Tokyo is the district of Mitaka, home of the Ghibli museum. This place showcases the wonders created by the master animator, Hayao Miyazaki. The top of the compound is guarded by the massive robot from Laputa.

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The smell of Tokyo

I mentioned before that I wondered what the smell of Tokyo would be like.

Now I know. I found it in a Manga Cafe.

 

I…I don`t want to SPECULATE what causes it. It`s beyond a locker room smell, or even a Metro Manila bus smell. But a manga cafe is just what  it sounds like: rows and rows of manga, booths for internet, reclining chairs, and free coffee. I`m on my second cup as I type.

I`m researching good manga art to buy in a bookstore.　The list I made so far:

  • tokyo tribes 2 santa inoue
  • tokyo graffiti
  • super strike ta-29 yamamoto yohko
  • buzzer beater inoue takehiko
  • mataharina moyoko anno
  • death note
  • hellsing　kota hirano
  • tattoo shu akana
  • island youn in-wan
  • basilisk
  • blodod sucker legend of zipangu
  • old boy garounds jiya
  • countach haruto umezawa

I paid Y980 for 4 hours of free use of the manga and internet. With it, I`m checking off one of the last of my to-do list while in Tokyo. With four more days to go, I`ll visit the last of the interesting places in this mega-city, and buy the rest of the pasalubong.

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