Jonas Skovmand,

Web developer from Sweden, Denmark and Norway.

Things I will totally miss with Japan

Tomorrow is the day my month of Japan is coming to an end, and I thought it’d be appropriate to write a little post about stuff I will miss with this magical country. It is also a good excuse for taking a break from having to shave off more kilos from my luggage to comply with the 20 kg limit friendly SAS gives you…

The English metro voice
- The Next Station is Harajukuuuu

Anyplace is sleeping place
- Japanese… Read on, read on

Notes from 300 km/h

…or How I Learned that the Swedish Transportation System Sucks.
…or I Know How you Feel, but I do it Anyway.

Yokohama. I must be frank and say that I didn’t get to see much of the city – we spent the bigger part of our stay yesterday at the hotel (Yokohama Royal Park), enjoying the view from our room, on the 59th floor(!), over Yokohama over to

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One foot in Japan, one in Norway.

ONE FOOT IN JAPAN, ONE IN NORWAY

I visited the Norwegian embassy in Tokyo today. This is a picture of my feet, one being on Japanese territory, one being on Norwegian.

Footnote: I’m Norwegian by citizenship, Swedish by heart and Danish by the fact that I have the ability to pronounce “rød grød med fløde på” in native(-ish) tone.

Macropathetic in Japan (pt. 2)

Hai konbanwa.

My 6th day in the land of the rising sun is coming to an end. The past few days I’ve been to Sado, an island 2-3 hours away by boat from Niigata, where I’ve done a bunch of sightseeing, eaten humongously good food, seen incrediblyous (have you adapted this word yet?) nature and actually talked to/with Japanese people with the strongly limited Nihongian vocabulary that I yield. Every night has been a feast with full Japanese dinner with… Read on, read on