Don't Come to Japan if You're This Kind of Gaijin

Tokyo Joe responds to the video (by King Asshole Victor Who Blocked Me Because He Can't Handle the Troof) about Comin to Japan.

Don't Come to Japan if You're This Kind of Gaijin/Person. I will help you come to Japan but if you are thinking of coming here to teach the English, friends, here's a good tip for you.

Shibuya Pedestrian Crossing - Why Your Life Will Change When You Cross It

 

THE SHIBUYA CROSSING, SHIBUYA WEST STATION EXIST, SHIBUYA, 'THE BU', SHIBUYA-KU, TOKYO, JAPAN

The crossing is featured in that movie Lost in Translation (2002). It is something that everyone who has visited Tokyo knows about. Few however brave the crossing more than once as they realize that crossing the street with so many people and taking photos of their achievement so that they can say to their folks and friends at home 'I AM IN JAPAN!' is lame and tendentious douchebaggery of the highest order. Take care friends. Peace Tokyo Joe

How to get an ESL job in Japan

A lot of you folks have wrote me and asked me how to get the dream English teaching job in Japan so here are my tips - even for those of you who think you can't get an eikaiwa job. "GETTING AN ESL JOB IN JAPAN 101 PART 1" on YouTube Leave your comments and questions below as always friends. Peace Tokyo Joe.

Know your Tokyo - Ikebukuro, Toshima City

Whenever I take the metro to Ikebukuro, Toshima City and emerge from the east Seibu exit onto Meiji Dori into the twilight, I feel alive. Why friends? Because it is like stepping out into a set from Blade Runner. The claustrophobic atmosphere of the east part of Ikebukuro (which has no fewer than three Bic Camera stores - all each with their own building), a LABI (Yamada Denki) and others will give you a real feeling of being on the deck Battleship Tokyo, more so than even parts of Shinjuku, which isn't quite as claustrophobic and imposing around its station. Toshima City is one of the eight central wards of Tokyo (out of the 23 special wards) and Ikebukuro is the second busiest train station in the world, at about 2.8 million passenger transits each day (Heathrow Airport, London, England has only 60 million a year) and the busiest metro station in the world (Marunouchi, Yurakucho, Futokushin lines). The Toshima City entotsu (translation: chimney)is something to behold friends, and it is the third tallest structure in all of Tokyo (after the Tokyo Sky Tree and the Tokyo Tower). It is the distinctive gleaming white polygonal column, an ode to the great wonders of the ancient world, with flashing red eyes that sits above the cavernous confines of the streets of east Ikebukuro. I will take you on a tour of Ikeburo in my forthcoming podcast, so stay tuned and ask your questions below.
Peace
Tokyo Joe

Why 'In Tokyo Town'?

Why am I in Tokyo Town? That's a long story friends. Why the name of the internet website 'In Tokyo Town'? Why not 'Tokyo Joe's Tokyo' or 'Joe Knows Tokyo', or 'Your Tokyo Guide' or because the site and podcast also covers the Shutoken and other cities and places in Japan of note (it will - i promise!) why not 'Shutoken-Land' or 'Japan and Tokyo'? well friends, Tokyo town's official name is is fact Tokyo To(wn). That's right, Tokyo To. 東京都 . That last.kanji there of the three means capital / metropolis ('miyako' or 'to'). The first two mean east and capital. Tokyo is the eastern capital and to is the district. Because Tokyo sure is special friends. so now ypu can enjoy being in Tokyo-To with 'In Tokyo Town.' I hope you will stay for the long journey friends. Welcome - and peace to you. Tokyo Joe