As the inaugural author of The Tokyo Traveler for b5 media I had the privileged of writing about the city that I now call home from March through October of 2008.  Here are some of my favorite articles from The Tokyo Traveler:

• Tokyo Travel - 10 Practical Things You Need To Know
• 10 Tips for a Greener Trip to Tokyo
• Taking the Subway in Tokyo - The Basics and a follow up article,  Taking the Subway in Tokyo - Tips & Tricks
• An Interview with Lonely Planet author  Matthew Firestone - He’s Big in Japan!
• Some history and photos of a Sumo event that I attended at the Yasukuni Shrine.
• An interesting history of the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum. An example of an Art Deco residence in Tokyo.
• Some history and photos from a Jabusame, Japanese Mounted Archery event.

Some of my most read articles on Atypical Life include:

• Quote of the Week - Hirayama on Hiroshima
• A typical Japanese Bow
• Atypical: 366 Parking Tickets in 296 Days!
• Yes, I am an expat wife but that doesn’t define me!

As an amateur photographer I was excited to have one of my photos featured by CNN.  I shared some photos with my readers in my article titled A Cow-munity in Tokyo! and one of the photos was included in the Offbeat iReports: Your fun and amazing photos on September 24, 2008.  The shot is the seventh photo in the slide show but here it is again:

I have also contributed articles to 7:10 to Tokyo that are pending publication.

To find out what I am up to follow me on Twitter, check out my Flickr Photostream or my favorites at StumbleUpon.

I can be contacted at shanesakata [at] gmail [dot] com.

Thanks for stopping by,