Horidome Villa Hotel Tokyo Chuo

... and every little kid there wanted to give the jolly gaijin giant a high five. It really was cute, and i was ****** I couldn't get my camera out in time. So we started walking down the street to find an authentic japanese noodle house. After about 30 minutes of searching, we realized that in Akasuka, almost every restaurant was only in Japanese, with no pictures of the food and no assistance for these two gaijin......... We figured screw it, let's do ...

Hello everyone! I hope this is reaching you all happy, healthy, and enjoying the autumn season where ever you are. Are you starting to see koyo? In Japan, this is the name of changing leaves and today I really started to notice a difference on the streets of Kawaguchi. Actually to be honest, there aren't many trees here at all. Only in the little neighborhood parks and near malls can you enjoy arching boughs overhead. I have yet to explore Shinjuku Gyoen ...

... for the past 6 years. Knowing how relatively expensive Japan is, Kirilee and I have been absolutely blown away by how exquisite the food is... and I use the word exquisite quite deliberately. As unappealing as this might sound to outsiders, I'm also willing to admit that probably 95% of our meals have come from convenience stores like 7Eleven or Lawsons or Sunkus... that's how good the food is here... I hazard to think how good it might ...

... sitting at the computer, e-mail, Jensen, alerts with United. Off to Asakusa. (ah-socks-ah) Senso-ji temple. Apparently this is where the actors come to pray & get blessings before the season/show. I pray. I'm reminded of the story of Jesus clearing the temple, as it's an INCREDIBLE marketplace. Charms, darumas, food stalls, tourist ****, decorated fans; Some ...

... it served burgers so we knew we couldn't go too far wrong. Restaurants don't often have English menu's here so eating is something of an experience) we decided to call it a day and headed back to the hostel. The next day we went to the tourist office to get some maps and then went to the main station to book our train tickets to Kyoto which were ridiculously expensive as on the tourist office's advice we got the ...

... nk br*nches in Tokyo, so th*t'll prob*bly be my second choice. At Citib*nk, you don't need * h*nko. But it might be fun to get * h*nko m*de, however. B*sic*lly, * shop would t*ke my surn*me *nd write it in J*p*nese ch*r*cters *nd then th*t se*l would be used to st*mp import*nt documents. From wh*t I've been told, * h*nko would cost *bout 2,000 yen, or * little more th*n $17. *** From *cross the miles, I received wonderful news tod*y th*t my ...

... the station. Thankfully we had her mobile number, so all was not lost. We had decided to go to Odaiba first, since Marita had also never been there. We caught a ferry to the artificial island, passing the Rainbow Bridge (it changes the colours of its lights throughout the year) and a strange triangular prism shaped garbage incinerator. Owen, a wealth of knowledge about Japan from a gaijin perspective, told me that Odaiba was built up in the 80s as a futuristic residential ...

... this session. Dan ranks are from 1st to 8th Dan. For some reason I thought the class started at 6:00 am so I was there way to early. Had a lot of time to stretch and loosen up before the class. This was a really nice class and I was so happy that I made the effort to get there. I was quite impressed with Doshu. His techniques in person looked much more stronger and effective then what I have seen previously on videos.