Tokyo
Travel Blogs from Tokyo, Japan
Driving from Victoria, BC to San Francisco
... no matter what they serve you are certainly going to enjoy it! Victoria is a charming city, but somewhat sleepy by Tokyo standards. The shops & restaurants seem to close up quite early and unless you go off onto some of the side streets - ...
Still in Tokyo
... , which was very quiet at this hour, to the metro station. I took the subway to Ginza. LP (Lonely Planet) describes Ginza as "Tokyo's answer to New York's 5th Avenue". I don't agree. It didn't give me that feel at all. The buildings are much shorter and ...
Tokyo
... airport of departure. On the other hand, had no difficulty cashing traveler's checks. They wouldn't exchange my Lebanese Pounds in Tokyo either. It seems like there is neither demand nor trust for this currency. After turning my cell on and off a ...
final day in tokyo
... me a good overview of Japanese history and art. i have always been surprised by the unique manga and anime culture in japan. well, i shouldn`t be. these simply are plays on early Japanese paintings, which are quite comic-strip-like. therefore, i ...
Hiking, driving, eating our way through Italy
... Leaving Rome we decided to skip the train to the airport & have the hotel get a car for us. For 50 Euros - it's worth it (see how free I am with my advice!). Now, back in Japan & dreaming / planning the next trip. Till then, Ciao! ...
Walking for the 7 Lucky Gods
... rice bales and carries a mallet that he uses to scatter money around. Both gods are very cheerful and extremely popular in Japan. Now we have our 7 gods and we even have the boat, their treasure craft, that they sail into the harbor every ...
Kichijoji, Inokashira Park, and Asakusa
... productions of Studio Ghibli. Leaving the park it's a short stroll over to the eclectic town of Kichijouji. Kichijouji is outside Tokyo's 23 wards, but is still well located and easy to get to from almost anywhere in Tokoy. Its an interesting ...
The Day we watched some more views
... -- a smaller station directly in the Yamanote line's path. It's particularly well known because two of the most prestigious universities in Japan (Keio and Waseda) are close to the station. As such, a lot of ramen bars can be found along the Meiji dori, ...
Where the toilets talk!
... that was catching a Frisbee and playing football with its owner. It had talent! Justin Lee Colins did a series on Channel 5 about Japan and Tokyo before we left home. He portrayed it as a mad city but with socially inept people. From what we've ...
Niks bijzonders
Tjah, we hadden het al een beetje gezien op het weerbericht, maar als we wakker worden is het toch echt waar. Nog steeds donkere wolken en dus geen goede dag voor Kamakura, waar lange wandeltochten op het programma staan. We stellen het nog een dagje ...
Last Day in Tokyo :-(
Well, spent my last day seeing as much of the city as possible - Tsujiki...Roppongi...various other areas I'm too jetlagged to spell properly.... More detailed entry to ...
Een druk dagje
... De Denker in het midden bovenaan. De rest is nog even zoeken, maar misschien vind iemand er meer!? Daarna ging onze reis naar Tokyo station, wat vlakbij Ueno ligt. Ons doel daar is het Imperial Palace. (Tussen haakjes; mij is verteld dat 1 hectare ...
It's kind of different here!
Somewhere after the International Date Line, it's already day two of my Japan adventure. I arrived in Narita Airport at approximately 4:15pm Tokyo time (that's 2:15am EST). I was a little nervous coming out of the arrival gate. My ...
Crazy Tokyo
I am now in Tokyo, well, at bit outside of busy downtown which is really good. After hard work at Nikko Park lodge I need to relaxe and feel that I am on holliday, I kind of forgot being around other travellers - being the receptionist again !! I think ...
Flight Status
... for our flight status. We're on flight 8 and once we leave about 2:30 AM your time, short of storms in Newark, whatever they post should be accurate (you can even watch our flight on the world map). Our flight to O'Hare is 1187. Good bye from Tokyo ...
Lay over in Tokyo on the way home to Penang
... would setup our flights to and from with long lay overs in countries we had not seen before. This trip is was Germany on the way and Tokyo, Japan on the way back. We had little time in Japan, but it was so nice to see this country and all that you hear ...
Back in Tokyo - Sumo, plastic food & fish markets
... I really wish you could get live prawns in Australia; they taste so much better. Other highlights of our last days in Tokyo included the beautiful imperial gardens, a shrine (the Yasukuni shrine) that was dangerously supportive of some of the most dubious ...
New York, Rio, Tokyooooooo
... From Nagoya we took the Willer Express bus to Tokyo. Only 6,5 hours to go.... It was already dark by the time we got there - just perfect for visiting Roppongi, the Tokyo Tower and enjoy the evening ...
Our first steps to becoming travelling geniuses!
... all were very weird and wonderful! There was one shop that sold solely punk clothes (apparently there' s a big punk scene in Tokyo). The clothes in there were pretty awesome, especially the leather jackets, I got chatting to a nice Japanese girl who ...
kav 11 tokyo
... a great time, it was such a nice day! but we kept walking and walking - it is so annoying that there are no street names in japan! after getting lost for a bit, we got to what we thought was the place, but it looked more like a junk room then a museum, ...
Kamakura!
... is! It even looks pretty, green and purple. Next, we took a bus to Daibutsu, which is the second largest Buddha statue in Japan. The Daibutsu was very impressive, although there isn't much else in the temple grounds aside from the Buddha. I did go ...
Tommy, Tokyo, Kyoto
... last day we went to Harajuku, which really lives up for its name of place for alternative fashion - the shops were cool alright. After Tokyo Tommy got really sick and was in bed with fever for about three days, so on New Year's Eve we couldn't do much ...
Narita Goodness
Mike and I arrived at Narita International Airport in good order and after getting through security, we managed to rest up for the nine hour flight to San ...
Just Ah Waiting
Just a little bit of waiting at Narita, thankfully, I did not have to go from one terminal to another for this round of travel. ...
10 ways to do Tokyo on a Budget
... sign up here, both you and I will get a bonus :-) ) Nodding off with all this talk of currency charges?? Sorry - back to Tokyo. Well here's the point - leave your credit card in your hotel room because the shopping in Tokyo is amazing. Retail is like ...
Tokyo - Day 8
... a Tokyo metro map and started to laugh. If you want to know why, just have a look on this link (http://mappery.com/map-of/Tokyo-Metro-Map-official). We had to rely on information desk once again. It all looked so easy when I was trying to find the way ...
Kibishii sensei
Eine strenge Lehrerin - ja, das bin ich. Ich hatte nämlich letzte Woche Freitag und heute Prüfungsaufsicht. Und da gibt's kein Erbarmen. Nach 90 Minuten is Schluss mit Schreiben. Heute hatte ich einen Nachzügler bei mir im Büro sitzen, der am ...
Go go Tokyo (Happy Birthday Emma)
... for us, although he exacted his reward by charging us like fifteen pounds for the priveledge (on the meter as well), welcome to Tokyo!!!! The hostel, Khaoshan Annex, when we finally got here, is great. The common room is really big with (finally) a ...
The land of the rising sun #1: Tokyo
... of the first few days travel in the faraway land of the Rising Sun... By the time we reached our first destination in Japan - Tokyo - we were knackered. We had undertaken an epic overnight journey from Hong Kong, notable (if that's the right word) for ...

