K's House Tokyo Taito

Vi stod op kvart i 8, vi skulle i "Akihabara" som er en hel bydel af el-aretikler og anime. Der var ikke saerlig langt med tog, og hele dagen blev derpaa brugt paa at gaa fra butik til butik som alle havde de samme varer. Heden var draebenede og da El-artikler ikke er det jeg lige interesserer mig mest for blev jeg hurtig traet. men noget fik jeg da kobt, jeg skulle nemlig bruge en ting som jeg kunne overforer billeder fra min mobiltelefon til min rejseblog. det var noget af det forste jeg fa...

DAVE -- It's early on Tuesday now, our 2nd morning waking up in Tokyo! We are in the lovely K's House Hostel in a northern suburb of Tokyo. What's a hostel you ask? It's basically like a hotel, with a few differences - hostels normally have a shared kitchen for guests (nice for us with our weird diets) and they usually have some shared dorm-style rooms with bunk beds 6 or more people to a room (we don't book those rooms, too intimate!) In this hostel, the showers and bathrooms are shared, dow...

DAVE -- It's 9:30a now on Friday, I'm hanging out in the room trying to wake up! Happy July 4th to all of you! Hope you are having a nice time with BBQs and all that stuff. It's another beautiful, calm morning in lovely Tokyo. Our neighborhood is just so interesting with how quiet and serene it is. There are really lots of cars and people around, but the noise level is about 20% of what it is back home in Santa Monica! In fact, it's quite rare to hear a car horn, the few times you hear one it...

Yeah at last Tokyo, a place i was really really looking forward to going to on my trip, inspired by films like 'Lost in Translation' and 'Tokyo Rush'. Straight away you noticed what a much bigg** and sprawling metropolis it is, it has 2 subways for start**s so it starts too give you the idea of the size of the place. And as I'd hoped th**e w**e giant billboards and neon lights ev**ywh**e, so i wasn't disappointed on that front. One of our first stops in Tokyo (aft** checking into our accommod...

After 12 hours, 4 movies, 2 delicious airplane meals, and a sore ass, we finally arrived in Tokyo. We were both exhausted during our longer than expected train ride to the Hostel. After checking in we went out for some authentic Japanese food and beer.

Hey guys, Just thought I would use this as all the emails are set up in here. Arrived in Tokyo on Friday night after a hectic morning at Brisbane airport. What a joke that was. I still hadn't cleared customs by the time they were calling for boarding. I made it to the plane with 15 to spare and then after I got on they said they would delay the plane due to the congestion at customs and securitym so we got away late. Tokyo aiport is relatively easy to get around, its getting a train ticket ou...

A couple of weeks before my scheduled return to Japan, I had a weird experience at work which threatened to jeopardise my trip before it had even started. As per usual, I was doing my best to fly under the radar of the various supervisors and managers who were milling around, and I must admit that I was doing a sterling job, sat in the canteen reading Phil Tufnell's autobiography (such an intellectual!). Nothing unusual there then, but that changed when I suddenly looked up only to see the en...

The advantage of spending December at home was that I got to go and watch the snooker in Telford for a few days, and see my friend Donna who coincidentally lives there. I also had a stroke of luck when I got sat next to Agnes, a lovely German girl who had a spare ticket to the sold out final, so I duely obliged and watched the Rocket thrash Stephen Maguire to take the trophy! Thankfully I was able to return to Japan as planned on New Year's Day, despite only getting the all clear from the doc...

There was an unexpected treat at the end of my flight back to Tokyo when I got a magnificent view of Mount Fuji from my window - I totally understand why the Japanese hold Fuji-san in such high regard. The way its perfectly symmetrical cone towers above the whole region is simply breathtaking, and winter really is the best time to view it as the air is so clear... I had a nice stroll up to Senso-ji on the night before my visitor arrived, accompanied by Bungo and a Vietnamese/Australian girl. ...