Bye Bye TYO

Beers in the Park

And so I’m off, leaving TYO-town for the next three weeks in a trip that will first take me to Boston for a week (my wife is doing some research at Harvard), two weeks in my hometown of Moncton, New Brunswick, and then a short two days in NYC before getting back at the end of July.

I’ll actually still be contributing to Game|Life on a daily basis, so it’s not really a holiday for me, but it’ll be nice to go back home for a bit — first time in three years! I will continue to pop up here every now and again, but expect to see a definite slowdown over the next three weeks.

The photo is of me enjoying a couple of beers at Minami-Ikebukuro park, taken a week ago by my friend Julie. Nothing like a good beer out in the park!

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Responses:

You love that happoushu, dontcha?
When you get back I’m gonna need to revisit some of this park action myself.

Enjoy the change of pace, though! Should be an interesting trip what with Harvard and all.

08.07.06 2:49
Posted by Joseph K
let’s hang out in NYC! Let us know when you arrive at NYC.

08.07.06 6:23
Posted by kosuke
have a safe and fun trip

08.07.06 11:34
Posted by Kris
Thanks for the kind wishes! Writing this from our very nice bed & breakfast in Cambridge. Just had the most amazing breakfast!

Kosuke, would love to meet, but with only 2 days and my wife and her list of things to see, we may not be able to. We’ll be there July 25-27 though (flight leaves 27th on the morning).

08.07.06 22:01
Posted by Jean Snow

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Jean Snow lives and breathes design and pop culture in Tokyo -- sustained by an unhealthy addiction to magazines and frequent visits to his favorites cafes. He has reported on these obsessions for the following online/offline publications: Time, Inside (Australian Design Review), Gizmodo, Gridskipper, Kotaku, Tokyo Q, Superfuture, OK Fred, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, I.D. (International Design), Metropolis, Azure, MoCo Loco, Kateigaho International Edition, Game|Life, and The Japan Times. He also manages the gallery space at Cafe Pause.

Jean Snow is a daily contributor to Wired magazine's game blog, Game|Life, covering game news from Japan and beyond.

Tokyolife: Art and Design covers Tokyo's cultural output of the past few years, covering the works of over 80 influential creatives. Jean Snow provided coordination assistance.

The Superfuture Superguides are a series of PDF travel guides to some of your favorites cities, updated monthly, and obsessively compiling the best places to shop, eat, and drink. The Tokyo guide is edited by Jean Snow.

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