Hotels in Tokyo - Prices and Reviews

At Shibuya (Tokyo), Jordan and I played Pichinko at one of the many pichinko palaces. Not sure how many pichinko machines there were, but the place was over 4 stores high and it was packed with people. It was hard to walked through the aisles as there many players had numerous trays of pichinko balls on the floor (I assume it was their winn...

Morgens um 6 Uhr aufzusehen benötigt im Urlaub einen wirklichen Grund. Diesen hatten wir, denn auf dem Fischmarkt ist, ähnlich wie in Hamburg, morgens am meisten los. Im Gegensitz zu Hamburg spielt Fisch, vorwiegend Thunfisch, die Hauptrolle. Dies** wird nachts gefangen, auf dem Schiff teilweise eingefroren, nach Tokyo v**schifft und morgens v**...

First bump in the road … the joys of flying. We boarded Air Canada flight # 001 for Tokyo, settled into our incredible POD style Executive First Class seats (see pictures attached), sipped on champagne as friendly flight attendants placed our carry-on luggage into the largest, most spacious overhead compartments I've ever seen (each one pr...

Not that an extra hour on a 13 hour flight means much but for no apparent reason it took 14 to get here to Tokyo. The flight itself was uneventful and marked by frequent naps and an abundance of The Office. Since the seat next to me was open, I got to spread out a bit. Going through customs was painless. Interesting to note was the beday in the ...

Had the iaido shinsa (grading) today at the budokan in Ayase and passed my sandan exam. All four shodan (1st degree) candidates passed as well as the nidan (2nd degree) candidate. The one dark spot was that our yondan (4th degree) candidate did not pass.

A very long day - got up at 5am, on the train at 6, and an hour and a half later we w...

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We couldn't afford the extra $ to get reserved seats, but as this was an early stop for the train, we were able to find seats. The trip back to Nagoya (where we would transfer to the shinkansen) was just as scenic as before. Johnny Cash on my iPod made a fun soundtrack for the mountain scenery. Noticed a lot of fisherman in the ...

So, eighteen hours after leaving Ottawa's airport I finally arrive in Japan, Narita Airport.
Sadly, I did not have a camera to take pictures while flying over the sea (not much to sea anyways, everyone's windows were down since it was supposedly 'night time').
I swear, it felt like Japan already when we were in Vancouver. As soon as we cro...

Tokyo is an amazing city. We didn`t get here until late so we headed out for Ginza to have some dinner. We found this traditional street where people sit out on the street and the chairs and tables are basically beer crates. They brought us a menu and luckily everything had pictures to go with it so we knew what we were ordering. We chose Bifon ...

Woke up with a bad case of hangover after a night out in Roppongi. Gathered myself up and headed straight to the hotel lobby. Today’s plan was to go shopping for souvenirs and take a cruise to Odaiba. I queried the concierge who said that the Nakamise shopping street approaching the Sensoji temple is the best place to buy traditional souve...

After a lovely second night at Chez Young/Grady, we restarted the journey by taking the 560 bus to SeaTac. Tuesday was a beautiful, crystal clear morning in Seattle. Around 65 and you could see Rainer clear as a bell. (It's like this every day in Seattle, right?) We got to the airport way early to cash in the generous food vouchers United had pr...