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  • Fluent in English, Japanese
  • 55, Other
  • Member since 2011
  • IT engineer
  • Studied at SUNY StonyBrook
  • From Tokyo, Japan
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Leading happy life (^^)b

ABOUT ME

Optimistic and happy, vegitalian with a little bit of drinking.

Studied at State University of NY at StonyBrook so a kind of Americanized, free and open to new things, like to hang around with English speaking people for chat or knowledge exchange.

Easy going and open-minded business person who love to hang around with people who have different idea, thought and view points.

PHILOSOPHY

Feel the peace, see the beauty.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Free bilingual Tokyo Otaku tour guide, or chat in cafe for some Japanese knowledge of tradition, latest, history, otaku, anime, manga and so.

For Tokyo sightseeing, my recommendation to visit is as follows:

“Asakusa Sensoji“ old Buddhism temple village,
“Meiji shrine” the biggest Shinto shrine in central Tokyo (my neighber),
“Harajuku” youngsters fashion hub,
“Imperial palace” at the center of Tokyo,
“Ginza” brand shop street like 5th ave NY,
“Akihabara” sacred place for Anime and Otaku,
“Tsukiji fish market” opens only AM (better to go early morning weekday),
“Tokyo tower” old tower to broadcast raidowave 333m height,
"Skytree" new tower for broad casting 634m world highest (we can go upto 450m with lift, may wait 2hours in line) with shopping mall contains more than 300shops and restaurant,
“Hama rikyu” old tea ceremony Garden by Tokugawa in Edo era,
“Odaiba” beautiful seaside town like Sidney,
“Ueno American street” built immediately after WW2 with very Asian narrow and messy mixedup atomospher and lots of museum around there etc.

There are some good and reasonable Sushi (near to Tsukiji) and Sake (Japanese old style drinking bar), if you want I can introduce some.

Other than these, there are something like boat cruse or one day trip to Nikko (120km northern from Tokyo) for Ninja village amusement park.

http://www.gotokyo.org/en/index.html http://www.hatobus.com/en/ http://www.jtbgmt.com/index.html http://anzentaxi.co.jp/localize/en/sightseeing/index.html

please tell me when and where you wanna go, as long as I am available in schedule, would like to join you for local bilingual guide.

Have a nice day, safe and nice trip (^^)b

Have fun, enjoy your life, stay tuned with happy wave!

Jina

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'd love to hang around with travelers in Tokyo such like free English tour guide, as well as explaining about our tradition, history, how we are and so.

Interests

Very Asian interests: Shinto, Shingon, Onmyodo, Theravada, InfiniGlobal, Channeling, Taichi, Chikong, FengShui, Taoism,

Other interests: Traveling US, seeing with new people, chatting in English, IT gadget, Manga and Anime!

  • fish
  • culture
  • folklore
  • fashion
  • beauty
  • drinking
  • gardening
  • boating
  • shopping
  • technology
  • anime
  • traveling
  • fishing
  • buddhist
  • business
  • engineering
  • history
  • physics
  • religion
  • tourism
  • sightseeing

Music, Movies, and Books

80s music, classic, celtic music, buddhism and shinto chant,

Papermoon, Gundom, Tomino, Bashar

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Experienced Theravada Buddhism monk, Channeling with angels, Feng Shui practitioner etc.

15years of IT engineer for application dev., server admin, and tech support at one of the biggest global IT companies.

Teach, Learn, Share

Spirituality, quantum physics, Sinto, Theravada Buddhism, Shingon Buddhism, Asian philosogy and religion, Japanese culture and tradition, Anime and Manga, General IT, electrical gadgets, hydroponic plantation, FengShui,

What I Can Share with Hosts

Due to the space limitation, maybe I can provide my couch, for only 1person, non-smoking female only, and only on my schedule availability.

I'm Intersexual (no balls) and thinking MTF SRS, so very feminine, don't worry.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, China, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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