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By: On Roller Skating in Japan: Notes on One Year of Culture Shock | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:47:35 +0000

[...] on your own. Maps, even online, are impossible to read. You have no idea what’s on menus, how to do laundry, where they keep the cereal in grocery stores (the dessert aisle, it turns out). You don’t know [...]

By: Stereotypical Japanese Apartment Tour | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:57:07 +0000

[...] It’s a nice gym complex in a suburb of Fukuoka. 3. The laundry machine does, in fact, eat laundry, regardless of having a [...]

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On Heating an Apartment in Japan | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:14:51 +0000

[...] also cheaper to avoid centralized heat - much like electric dryers for laundry, heat is expensive. While electric heaters are popular – as are electric rugs, electric [...]

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:57:28 +0000

seems like everything in Japan was made by Cinco.

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By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:31:35 +0000

I air dry everything on wooden clothes drying racks I have found it really helps to dry them faster to run them through the spin cycle once or twice extra. Since the more water I can get out of the clothes before we start the air dry process the faster they will dry.

By: owwls

owwls — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:46:09 +0000

Laundromats in Japan are far and few between and what I have heard about them merits another blog entry alone.

As for flash floods, basically the weather is dry and humid until an arbitrary 20 minutes of rain, where water literally comes out of gutters looking like a hose. On the way home from school on Thursday, the water coming off the gutter of the soy sauce factory was spraying about a foot out before hitting the ground. The entire city is built on top of a weird system of canals and gutters, which is sort of fascinating in and of itself.

The major problem with these floods is that if you live uphill, the water coming from the sky is torrential, but so is the water coming down the hill. Once it levels out, though, the canal system handles it pretty well.

By: Sheryna

Sheryna — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:05:07 +0000

Lol. Are you serious about the crows flying off with your socks?!!

Yeah… I hate hanging clothes outside. I have found moths, cicadas and a bee once when I was taking in clothes and it must have been a strange sight – a woman screaming at her own clothes on the balcony and proceeding to throw that offending piece of clothing to the other end of the balcony.

By: Brett

Brett — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:16:35 +0000

Having lived in a humid climate (Hawaii), I understand the constant battle with humidity. I found it helped to use a scented soap to cut down on the mildew-y scent (I used scented dryer sheets as well, but that doesn’t appear to be an option). I know you have a washer, so this may seem silly: Do they have laundromats in Fukuoka? If so, perhaps you could dry your clothing on especially humid/rainy days. I realize this seems like a pain in the ass, but I would hate for you to have not only damaged, but moist clothing.

I’m also concerned about these flash floods. Would you mind elaborating about those?