皆さん、please give Ms. Chigusa Yamaguchi a MONOSUGOI welcome, as she is a rising star in the entertainment business, and she was nice enough to take some time out of her busy schedule to stop by and chat with us!
Thank you again Chigusa!! It was great having you! Perhaps, if we can get enough requests, she’ll come back and do another show!
よろしくお願いします！

Chigusa-san, thanks again! it was great being in the same studio with you! Learned a lot! Please come back!

Ohh, very cool pod
Thank you for coming, Chigusa! I hope you will come again
Maybe Jpod101 should add her also to the team. It seems to be growing quite a lot late, with adding Takase, Takeya and now, Chigusa
Amazing.

Chigusa-san sounds like a real hoot. Thank you for visiting our community. I look forward to learning what you have to say.

Arigatou gozaimasu!

ネイト

マービンさん、 great to hear from you! Yes, we are getting very excited! We’ll be keeping you updated!

ネイトさん、 Chigusa is awesome! She is too funny!

Rob-san, stay tuned, lots more about “wards” of Tokyo and cities of Japan coming up!

Alexander-san, yep! We are trying to expose you to many different kinds of voices. We are currently looking for more English voices too! We feel just learning a few types of voices is setting you up for a hard fall, so we use lots!

Orlina-san, you’ll make it one day! We know you will!

ようこそいらっしゃいました、ちぐささん。^_^ 英語（えいご）がすごくお上手（じょうず）ですね。 　どうやってそんなに上手（じょうず）になったんですか。お名前（なまえ）を知（し）っていなかったら、私（わたし）はちぐささんが日本人かと全然（ぜんぜん）気（き）づけません。本当（ほんとう）にアメリカでも生（う）まれませんでした？

でも、ひどいですよ。気（き）を付（つ）かないと、ピーターさんは奥様（おくさま）に殺（ころ）されますよ。でも、私は独身者（どくしんしゃ）だから、109のことを覚（おぼ）えておきます。

ちぐささん、お時間（じかん）があれば、いつでもまた来（き）てくれたら、うれしいです。皆（みな）さんもきっと喜（よろこ）ぶと思（おも）います。 ^_^

Shibuya’s a very vibrant town. At night, there are lots of people everywhere. Many of them are young people just hanging out, especially in the square and on the sidewalks. When the light changes to cross the street, a whole river of people flow across with you, filling up the whole intersection, not just the crosswalk. The large electronic billboards remind me of the movie “Blade Runner.”

I went to a restaurant there which was located in the basement of a highrise building. The whole restaurant consisted of many tiny rooms scattered all over the place, some up a flight of stairs, others down a short flight of stairs. It made me feel like I was in a maze. Just finding and going to the bathroom was an experience.
The whole place was dark with only tiny candles in each room. On one end of the restaurant stood a large Buddha statue about 20 feet tall. Well, it seemed like 20 feet tall in the poor lighting.

Anyway, the food consisted of mostly tofu and soy dishes, which we could hardly see because of the darkness. Our eyes eventually adjusted and we were able to enjoy the meal. Other people were busy making out in the darkened rooms.

I guess the darkness served its purpose; the place was packed, with people waiting outside.

Wayne

Fun program that brought back fun memories. Looking forward to touring Tokyo with Chigusa san.

pics of chigusa..please..hehe

Another club in shibuya that I like is “Xanado”. It is pretty small, but the music is varied, and the staff is cool. Jonas osusume desu

David-san,

渋い (shibui) and 渋谷 (shibuya) both share the same first character. Shibui has a number of meanings, but it can be used to describe something tasteful or “cool” - usually a mature cool. I do not know of this meaning coming from Shibuya, but I could very well be wrong!

Nate-san,

I’ve seen that show sometime in the past. Very interesting! And yes, what is there not to love about Hachiko

Chigusasan, your English is better than your Japanese! How many years did you live in the states? Anyway, you rock. Welcome to the show!

Err… I forgot to thank Chigusa-san, now I know where to take my claustrophobic friends.

Thank you Japanesepod101

JAPANESEPOD101 WA ICHIBAN DESU… ( not the beer… )

WOW now i must go to shibuya… domo arigatto Chigusa san…

PS. please come back for more shows because Chigusa Yamaguchi sounds kawaii ^_^
You guys ROCK !!

Carlos-san,

That was Peter-san and I doing a little people watching

I think the verdict is in… Chigusa-san must come back!!

nice stuff. interesting good to get a better idea of places to go in japan. And also places to avoid. thank you Chigusa.

I’ve just started catching up with the show, and was really surprised by this episode. It’s great that for once, Peter’s jokes are being acknowledged! I feel for you Peter. And Chigusa is great in this episode, hope we hear more of her soon!

ジェイソンさん、thank you for listening! Very sharp of you! The introduction lessons were actually recorded at a later date, late 2006. Hence the reason for the first time!