Tag: Japan

• Maid Cafes and Gaming…

  As you know from my last article I spent several hours on Sunday in the Akihabara section of Tokyo.  There seems to be an abundance of what are called ‘Maid Cafes’ here.  While I did not go into any of them, I was confronted by several of these maids on the street handing out fliers…

  Mitch Garvis

  September 30, 2013

  Uncategorized

  Akihabara, Japan, Maid, Maid café, Tokyo

• Akihabara

  I hadn’t planned to get up particularly early, but I suppose i am still a little jet lagged; I left the room at 8:30, had breakfast downstairs, and headed to the subway.  While I grew up a master of the Metro system in Montreal, I am still not particularly familiar with the Toronto subway system,…

  Mitch Garvis

  September 30, 2013

  Japan, Travel

  Akihabara, Animation, Anime, Confucius, Japan, Tokyo, Yushima Seidō

• Pictures from Day 2…

  I have been in Japan since Wednesday evening, and it is now Saturday morning.  For my readers in North America the time shift is simple… this morning in Japan is yesterday evening for you, and this evening in Japan will be this morning for you.  I think… I have been promising that I would start…

  Mitch Garvis

  September 27, 2013

  Japan, Travel

  Japan, Japanese cuisine, Sashimi, Tempura, Tokyo

• Japan: Day 1

  I arrived at the hotel thoroughly exhausted yesterday, which I suppose is to be expected.  Fortunately the check-in process was smooth and simple, and I got into my room within five minutes. If I had to pick a single word to describe Japan so far it would be Efficient.  Certainly it is clean and everyone…

  Mitch Garvis

  September 26, 2013

  Japan, Travel, Uncategorized

  CitiBank, Hotel, Izakaya, Japan, Japanese cuisine, Visa

• Big in Japan…

  There has been a rumour floating around that I was not happy at Microsoft Canada.  Whoever started that rumour was not me, and it could not have been further from the truth.  I have loved working with the DPE Team, I have loved almost everything about the past year. With that being said, over the…

  Mitch Garvis

  September 16, 2013

  Blog

  Baseball, Canada, Japan, Microsoft, Microsoft Canada, Rumor, Tokyo, Tom Selleck