This post is the eighth in a series of nine illustrating my trip to Japan. On my seventh day in Japan (March 27th), I wanted to go to the outskirts of Kyoto and visit the shrines and temples.
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This post is the seventh in a series of nine illustrating my trip to Japan and the second of two illustrating my sixth day in Japan (March 26th). After dropping off my bags, I headed out and went exploring. My ryokan was right next to the Sanjo-Keihan station by the center of the city, so I left and headed northeast.
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This post is the sixth in a series of nine illustrating my trip to Japan and the first of two illustrating my sixth day in Japan (March 26th). Matt and I wanted to go to the Tsukiji fish market Monday morning before he left for the US. The Tsukiji fish market is the world’s largest wholesale fish market and has world-famous tuna fish auctions almost every day. We left our hotel at 4:30 AM and got there just in time to see the tuna fish auction.
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This post is the fifth in a series of nine illustrating my trip to Japan. On my fifth day in Japan, March 25th, Matt and I decided to take the time to do some sightseeing and go to the various areas around Tokyo, including Central Tokyo (æ±äº¬), Ginza (銀座), Asakusa (æµ…è‰), and Shinjuku (新宿区).
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This post is the fourth in a series of nine illustrating my trip to Japan. On the fourth day in Japan, March 24th, we recouperated from a fun evening the night before and got ready for another round of presentations. We caught up with Bert at breakfast and figured out the plan for the day.
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This post is the third in a series of nine illustrating my trip to Japan. On the third day, March 23rd, I presented the paper I co-authored, “Frequency analysis of the detectability of virtual haptic gratings.” It was surprisingly stressful (this was my first “real” presentation to a group of >200 individuals), but it went over well. Matt also presented poster on a paper he co-wrote, “Discriminability of Real and Virtual Surfaces with Triangular Gratings,” which is shown in the images below.
This post is the second in a series of nine illustrating my trip to Japan. On the second day, March 22nd, I took the time to get my bearings and get ready for the first day of the conference.
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This post is the first in a series of nine illustrating my trip to Japan.
After arriving in Japan on March 21st, we caught a bus from Narita International Airport to Tsukuba:
