Cube Hotel Tokyo

... of currency charges?? Sorry - back to Tokyo. Well here's the point - leave your credit card in your hotel room because the shopping in Tokyo is amazing. Retail is like religion here. A sign of status, major leisure activity, courtship ritual - the ...

... stops down from where we needed to be, so we hopped back onto the train. We got to the right stop and walked downtown Tokyo. It was much less crowded, there were more office buildings than stores. Once you walk down the street far enough the tower becomes ...

... even at the end of the day! THE CRISIS OF MODERN ART, A RIVER WALK, LIBERTY, AND RUSH HOUR I avoided Tokyo's morning rush hour by staying in my hotel until at least 10 a.m. every day.  The evening rush hour was surprisingly late.  One day I went ...

... of course wanting you to sign up to use their services. Right now there are mini seminars being held in different smaller rooms around the hotel on things like: Travel as a JET, Getting the most for your YEN, Cooking in Japan, Older JET's - how to fit ...

... the front desk where to discover a coin based laundry a few days earlier.  After insisting that I was not interested in the hotel version of laundry robbery they reluctantly gave me a map to a "coin laundry".  So we followed our map, a travel ...

... re renting houses that have washing machines.  In the Kyoto house, it was an all-in-one washer and dryer.  In Tokyo, there's only a washer, so we got to hang out the laundry  using the ubiquitous folding clothes hangers.  (There's also ...

... dirt, but no support whatsoever... Anyway, enough complaining about 'poor us' having to walk around Kyoto!!!  We got to the hotel, checked-in (with a mildly embarrassing moment as the clerk walked to us to the elevator, then bowed to us as we got ...

... chunky mutton & lamb kebabs served with home made yoghurt and nan bread, with a spicy green bean dish that nearly blew our heads off! A great stay was had in Beijing, as we packed and prepared for Tokyo, Japan. Nick on behalf of ...

... no real rush to leave, except that there were a couple of places we had yet to visit before our evening flight back to chilly Tokyo. Driving southward down the island was a joy, and we made good time, reaching Ou Island sometime around noon. Have you ever ...

... we had lovely views from the balconies. We hadn't eaten a proper supper, and we didn't want to eat at the hotel, so we got back into the Cube and drove a bit up the coast, where we found a nice little restaurant specialising in Okinawan food.  As ...

... an hour and a half from Sendai to Tokyo station compared to the morning's 2.5hr journey. Back in Tokyo I strolled through downtown Tokyo to the hotel and began packing for the flight home. It was a sad time for me, with 17 days in Japan, I had done ...

... and my back. There were so many people too, I think the most I've seen in Odori and Sapporo area. Still doesn't beat Down Town Tokyo though. When we got home me and Wako went and rented Toy Story 3 to watch, in english with Japanese subtitles and it was a ...

... feeling of being on the open road -- as open as it can be on an island that small, anyway -- is one I seldom experience in Tokyo. Another one of my brilliant suggestions was that since we'd need to come back down the west coast of the island to get to ...