Tag: living in Japan

A picture says a thousand words, doesn’t it? Having gone through many, many winters in Calgary I can say this is not a lot of snow, at least not for Calgary. I also went through several winters in Vancouver (back in the 80’s) where the city came to a stand still every time the flakes...

Wow did we ever luck out. After arranging for our agent, Shiro-san to drag us out to over 45 units, we finally found “the one”. In the beginning we did not know which district we really wanted to live in and the search was based more on suitable apartments than location. After about 10 days...

We had a massive storm in Yokohama about 2-3 days after the first buds blossomed and many people were worried that the intense weather would drastically affect or stomp out the season by blowing away the buds and flowers, happily it did not. It did however wipe out power in parts of Tokyo for nearly...

Whoa, nothing could have prepared us for the apartment they expected us to live in with 2 cats and a shipment on the way…. Our building is called Akebono #17 and we are on the 3rd floor. The location is good and we are a short, 10-minute walk to the nearest train station. The skinny...

Yokohama doesn’t seem that big, but it’s deceiving. It’s only half the size of my hometown of Calgary, Alberta but the population is triple at well over 3 million people. Being so densely populated you can easily get around by walking and find everything you need and a lot more you didn’t if you can...

Welcome to our blog about living in Yokohama. Hope you enjoy it… Quick note, I decided to start this blog (great idea Collette, thanks) as a way to keep our family and friends up to date on our life here since I am still not a Facebook fan and probably never will be! So please...