No, you’re right – it should be “ate”.

Edit: Boo, you – stop ninja-posting me. =P

• This reply was modified 12 years, 8 months ago by  Joel.

Either works, but 太陽 carries a bit more weight.

I’d say 太陽 refers to the Sun, the life-giver, et cetera, whereas 日 is just a flaming ball of plasma in the sky. Just my feeling, though.

Ok, I finished reading your blog. I’m not a great fan of baseball, I admit, but I was enjoying reading about your travels and perusing your photos. Write more nao, plz. Love reading others’ travel blogs. =P

Little amused by your comment that you can see the Skytree from all over Tokyo. When I was there in 2010, it was still under construction. I spotted it from Kiba Park, and was intrigued by that tallish tower I could see in the middle distance. It wasn’t until I saw it later from near Tokyo Station looking almost exactly the same that I realised it was much further away – and much, much taller – than I’d originally thought it was.

I’d also like to revisit Ochanomizu Station, and the others along the Kandagawa. I passed through there on my way from the Ghibli Museum, and was intrigued by the view, but my only actual stop there was after dark, and I didn’t realise just how close it was to the river.

P.S. BB, if you actually look like your avatar, I’ll consider visiting. =P

Renting a phone might be worth it. But using it to upload your photos on the run? Not worth your time. Ignore Facebook and e-mails and whatever when you’re sightseeing – do your sighteeing and only your sightseeing, then do your Internet stuff at night when you’re back in the hotel.

Also, reckon you should use a real camera rather than a phone camera, but that might be just me.

I’ve been studying as a diploma at university (as well as TextFugu and some other self-study) and after one year, I felt I’d learnt enough that I could just about function as a tourist. You know, “where’s the bus stop”, “I have a reservation here”, “I’d like to order the ramen and a gyoza please”. That sort of thing. Probably not a great deal more than that, and my listening ability is still quite weak (though that’s more about me than about what you can learn in a year).

“Amazing” is “sugoi” =)

Well, what style is he going to write it in? Plain old MS Mincho? If he’s going to stylise it on the run, are you going to make sure it doesn’t get changed in the process? If you leave off the radical for the first character, for example, you wind up with 昆, which has the same reading, but means something quite different.

The thing is, aside from getting the kanji right in the first place, who’s actually going to draw the thing?