Hotel Takashima
Travel Blogs from Ayase
The land of the rising sun
... and reading where to go, thus getting out of Shibuya station was quite a challenge. We decided to quickly look at the internet and find where our hotel was, however due to lack of sleep we didn’t look at the map as well as we should have and after about 1hours walking around some dark streets in what we thought was Shibuya we made our way back to the train station to check the map again!
We had read it a little wrong…..thus after looking at it more closely ...
Day 4 - 9th April
Late night resulted in a lie in and lunch at the hotel! We also decided that we needed more time in Tokyo so we changed the trip so we could stay in tokyo longer, expecting a substantial mobile bill when we get back.
We finally got out into glorious sunshine - 20 degrees at about 2 o'clock, we had a walk down to Shinjuku Gardens (stopping at a random temple on the way) which ...
A Tale of Tokyo
... year 1393 and moved to its present location in 1598. The temple grounds are filled with these curious little stone Buddha children things all wearing knitted red hats, and after a little googling I’ve learned they are called Ojizo and are grateful statues, it’s based on a sweet old japanese folktale you can read here http://www.japanippon.com/fairytales/ji zo.htm. We couldn’t get inside the temple (I don’t know if you normally can) because there was ...
Partying in Tokyo
... 1493;ת הקטני 01; סביב המקדש קסומי 01; בעתיק 93;תם ומציג 97;ם פן אחר של יפן שעד כה לא ראיתי בשום ...
