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Chuo Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Chuo, Japan
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The Tsukiji Flop
Both aware we were due a good day, we made less ambitious plans, they didn't quite work out, but we enjoyed a slow day. We decided to amble aroud Tsukiji fish market. We woke, left the house and walked to the subway station. The journey to Tsukiji ...
Here at Last
Well ladies and gentlemen we finally made it to Tokyo! After a wonderfull few days with my aunt and uncle in Burbank in which I attended a delightful and thought provoking church service, saw an episode of the Tonight Show live , experienced a local ...
Kanazawa
... the city. Our first stop was the gold leaf museum where we saw demonstrations of how they make the gold leaf. 99% of all gold leaf in Japan is produced here and they use gold leaf a lot. We even had gold leaf tea. We hopped back onto the loop bus for the ...
Nishi-takashimadaira
... are covered with poetic notes. Apparently merchants do the most to promote the day. Noting lovers' holidays, Valentines Day, February 14 in Japan is when females express their feelings for males, and a month later, March 14, White Day, men express their ...
Ningyo Cho - Tamahide and Amazake Yokocho
While Meg has gone off with her friend to Tokyo Sky Tree, we decided to explore an old part of Tokyo called Ningyo Cho 人形町 near Nihonbashi. Took the Hibiya line below our hotel to Ningyocho Station. Found the famous 5th generation ...
Tokyo
Lots of walking and shopping/window shopping in Tokyo today. The transport system her is really efficient,both metro and overground train.Metro fairly easy to navigate but over ground huge and complex.Main Tokyo overground station has 23 platforms on ...
Earth Garden in the Urban Jungle
... and music, and some familiar sounds from a Japanese group called Modern Irish Project. We had a beer and began tasting the food of Japan. We first dug into a bun looking like a dumpling, filled with some mystery meat!, and a egg sandwich with pork, leeks, ...
Wandering the maze
Woek up today and went and checked out the tsujiki fish market, the imperial palace, downtown Tokyo, asakusa, and ahkihabara. The palace was kinda cool and but we couldn't go onto the real gardens so it wasn't too exciting. Asakusa had lots of shrines ...
Man-made Island
Today I took the elevated train to Odaiba, a man-made island in Tokyo Bay. The island is home to many businesses, shopping centers and entertainment. The museum choices are Maritime, Gas Science, and Future Science. The architectural gem Convention ...
Maizuru
Arrived in the port of Maizuru early this morning so no lying in. What a lovely location this is. We are within walking distance of the city and surrounded by wooded hills in the tiniest port we have visited yet. We visited Tore Tore fish market first ...
Tokyo
I am wandering in Tokyo despite the fact the pin likes to say I'm in Chuo. After breakfast I stopped at the concierge desk and asked about tours. They handed me a brochure describing seven different tours offered. Am I proud to say that I have been to ...
Work done and now we play
So all my work is done and we have become tourists again. We are slowly ticking off all the key highlights of Tokyo. I say slowly as it is a very large city and we have tried to walk as much as we can - which can be fun trying to follow the street names! ...
Tokyo
We arrived in Tokyo late the night before and stayed up super late chatting with burkes cousin, spencer. We woke up late the next day and it the town. We walked around several parts Tokyo. It's really a beautiful city. For the evening we went to a big ...
Sakaiminato, Japan
We visited the Adachi Museum of Art which incorporates the most magnificent garden in Japan. Voted Japan's top garden for the last 10 years it was well worth the visit. You view it from inside the building which worked really well as it was pristine! ...
Typhoon
... with reservations can go to the top of the broadcasting/observation tower. Reservations can be made on line, but you have to have a Japan issued credit card, so going to the top will have to wait for another visit. The bottom few stories of the tower ...
Day at sea
Lots of activities to keep us occupied. Started with the walk around the promenade deck, then off to the gym (we have to compensate for the amount of food we will probably eat!) Our itinerary today includes : cooking demonstrations, flower making, ...
At sea, day 4
We sailed through the Japanese sea in overcast cool, weather. Spent breakfast planning our activities for today. First stop, morning trivia! Then off to the gym followed by line dancing. We had a quiet afternoon sitting in the bar and enjoying the ...
Cool Summer in Tokyo
... the sun and rain, practically every day. They really are women's fashion accessories. Continue to have sticker shock with the prices in Japan. Even on sale I couldn't find a straw sun hat for under $100. Am still taking food photos. Had a fun evening ...
Tokyo City Tour
Beautiful weather.....off out on day trip....by bus....hope Dave stays calm.........well update had a fabby day temples....boat trip....Japenese gardens......Japanese lunch.......city cultural tour....!! Well it was a fabby day......boat trip ...
Mt Fuji & Hakone trip
On bus.....sorry Dave.....off to Fuji Skyline......Japanese lunch.....Hakone Sky Gondola....Owakudani Valley......pirate boat cruise on Lake Ashi......return to Tokyo by bullet train.......going to be another hectic day.....!!!! All went to ...
Free time
Saturday in Tokyo....going to do some shopping and exploring ourselves....weather overcast approx. 10c......Update....had a good day....totally relaxing time....now packed for early flight to ...
Day 3 amazing Ramen & Rikugien Gardens
... through a lot as a family dealing with my Cancer and the death of my Mom last Summer. It was so special to share Japan with my children. The Cherry Blossoms floated down from the trees as we walked through. There were ponds with Koi fish and turtles, ...
12 down and 7 to go
Denial is a wonderful thing. We are in Tokyo awaiting our flight to Bangkok after our 12 hour flight. I am thinking the flight to Bangkok is a short hop- like LA to SB. It is a 7 hr flight. I am actually glad I didn't know that! And the Asian floor ...
Tokyo!!!
We thought we would treat ourself and stay at a hotel because we wanted to be right in the centre and it turned out we were really close to everything by subway! Tokyo is very expensive like London prices!! Funny thing is we couldn't find any souvenir ...
Today we fly home
The past few days Burke and I have just been doing some sight seeing and relaxing, getting ready for a long trip home. See everyone very soon!! ...
Tokyo, Tokyo, Tokyo!!!
Tokio, Tokio, Tokio!!! Después de 4 ciudades, hemos llegado a Tokio, el destino final que se acoplo al viaje en las etapas finales de planeo hace medio año. Hace casi tres años viaje a Vietnam haciendo escala en Tokio. En ese viaje nunca ...
Day 3 Meiji Shrine
Since we didn't see much on the first day, we tried to pack everything in on the next. We first made our way to Harajuku. On the train we sat near a teen who was dressed up in a "Cosplay" (costume play) outfit. She looked like an Anime character come ...
Seeing the town
The day we walked around more and experienced conveyor belt sushi. We went out again and had a great time dancing at a ...
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