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Park Side Hotel Chiba

3-2-18 Benten, Chuo-ku Chiba, Chiba, Kanto, 260-0045 , Japan

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Japan

A travel blog entry by sojournals

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... over looking the water. From there we made our way to the Imperial Palace, stopping along the way to check out the Sony Show Room and play with the latest gadgets. Before heading back to our guest house we had to make a stop at the famous (infamous?) Akihabara electric city. This is an area that has, since after WWII, sold all types of electronics at discount. In ...

To market, to market

A travel blog entry by joanandjames

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... well.

Today was a great day for sampling. Whether it was the fish market, the outer market or the basement market, we found numerous things to try. Some pretty normal, like pickles, some not so much. I think I may have even eaten a sample of whale meat. (sorry to all you whale lovers out there) Suffice as to say that we did not need lunch by the time we visited all the markets and tasted their wares.
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Contrasts: Leaving Israel, arriving in Japan.

A travel blog entry by jrubin

... Sharoni in Haifa for a night before heading into the bush to run a mini Pathways camp for 3 days. Won't go into details on the camp, but it was really great. On the last day though I got extremely sick to the point I was involuntarily crying and begging my Dad to take me to hospital, he would not. It got to the point where I could not walk and had to have two people help me. By the end of it I was so weak that Dad had to help me lift my head to drink water. That sucked ...

Tokyo

A travel blog entry by mrandmrsmurrell

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... you your ticket. As well as the politeness, everyone is immaculately dressed. We haven't felt so underdressed anywhere we've been. As well as the smartly turned out office workers are the teenagers. The girls are particularly notable for their fondness for micro skirts and shorts coupled with big fluffy boots. Even the taxi drivers wear suits and ties and white gloves.

No doubt the taxi drivers would also be very polite but taking a taxi is out of ...

Who needs Lonely Planet...we've got LoLo Planet

A travel blog entry by coretour

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... began to disperse. My intention was to watch Derby's opening match of the season away at Leeds, kicking off at 1:15am, Tokyo time. The computer at the capsule hotel had other ideas though as it refused to stream anything. When the computer shut itself down for no reason I'd had enough and called it a night. News of the 2-1 win cheered me up in the morning though.

After booking our tickets for the night bus to Kyoto we spent our final day in Tokyo revisiting some of the ...