Sakura Tokyo

... comparing yearly average weather information with past cherry blossom seasons, I managed to get quite accurate with my forecast on the likely sakura hanami season for 2010. In fact my girlfriend & I had went ahead with the purchase of our air tickets back ...

... , at midnight!  (TIP:  if you’re into nightlife, locate yourself close to the action!) After a move to the Sakura Hotel (a bit nicer and centrally located in Jimbocho) the next day, I finally made it to the Imperial Gardens.  They are ...

... of silenced carousels & frozen anime characters waiting for their life to return with the hordes the next day. Sakura Hostel like absolutely everything else in Tokyo was spotlessly clean, & it also had a talking elevator. I met a couple of guys ...

Day 3 dawns and we head off to Ueno Park to look at some sakura blossoms, after a tiresome and dreary day carrying around heavy backpacks the day before it was much nicer to leave the bags behind at the hostel and just carry the camera around to take ...

... station. It's our final Shinkansen journey and so typical of all the others - bang on time, so comfortable. Once in Tokyo we checked into the Sakura Hotel again, where despite the intial scare of losing our booking, we were offered a twin room set up for ...

... nbsp;the dumpy local train to Tokyo. After a few connections we arrived at central Jimbocho station and found Sakura Hotel, nestled among Tokyo‘s tower blocks, with ease. With its friendly welcome, cosy café plus internet, and sensible price ...

... mails...aarrg...do you know what the roaming costs are? 22.50 CHF PER MEGABYTE! how crazy...but oh well... so I found the name "sakura fleur aoyama" and also checked the map again. I was well far away... When I finally arrived at the hotel it looked more ...

... of bullet trains it was time to get one last shinkansen to Tokyo. This time I was going to spend a few days in Tokyo staying in the Sakura Hostel in the Sakusa region of Tokyo. This would allow me ample oppurtunity to check out the night life in Tokyo. ...

... over breakfast to plan our first real day of exploring Tokyo. Did we say what a nice place we have found in the Sakura Hostel? Archie made friends with everyone and took a particular shine to Shun – a friendly native of Japan heading for Singapore. ...

... out to be staying just five minutes from one of the most historic and venerated temple centres in all Japan – the Senso Ji. The Sakura Hostel was warm, dry and so very friendly. We felt at home right away – Archie of course winning hearts and ...

... ; you wont want to leave, or ar least you wont want to leave to go back to Kyushu. I definitly recommend staying at the Sakura Hostel in Asakusa. There is also a good Tex-Mex food restaurant called Junkadelic in Naka-Meguro, Tokyo. They have a good ...

December 25, 2007.  From Sakura, we needed to figure out how to get to Tokyo.  We did not want to rent a car, so we had to figure out the subway stations complicated routes.  We used this map to get to Ueno: ...

... sign up here, both you and I will get a bonus :-) ) Nodding off with all this talk 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 ...

... of nameless streets.  Definitely not people friendly.  Instead the forces that be have derived a complicated number scheme.  A typical Tokyo address may be 6-4-21.  Where the first number, the 'chome’ refers to an area within the ...