Author Archives: James Rudd

About James Rudd

Network Administrator at Sydney Boys High School

¥en

Posted on August 26, 2010 by James Rudd

One thing that still seems a bit weird to me is the 1 Yen coin. It is small and made of aluminium, and seems to rapidly accumulate. Coming from a country that has discarded values below 5c, having a coin … Continue reading →

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Technical Difficulties

Posted on August 26, 2010 by James Rudd

As viewers of our blog may have noticed, the server was down for most of the 26th. Apparently some critical networking component at my web hosting company failed, and it took a while to get a replacement. On another technical … Continue reading →

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Day 4-5 – Mt Fuji:The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Posted on August 25, 2010 by James Rudd

We started of the day with a nice trip to the 5th station of Subashiri Trail. To get the most value of our JR Rail pass we went all the way on JR. Machida -> Shin-Yokohoma -> Mishima ->Numazu -> … Continue reading →

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Bicycles

Posted on August 25, 2010 by James Rudd

There are no words I can use to describe the sheer number of bicycles over here. On the train station we pass multistorey bike car parks that must have tens of thousands of bikes in them. We constantly see them … Continue reading →

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Day Two – Machida Morning

Posted on August 22, 2010 by James Rudd

We started with a nice Japanese style breakfast of rice balls, miso soup and some noodles with omelette. We also found out that shorts and thongs / sandals are acceptable dress. Which was a relief given the expected temperature. We … Continue reading →

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