The Peninsula Tokyo

(This has now turned into an outright Asian Excursion which includes China and Japan)

Greetings and salutations! I am heading off to the other side of the planet on this small jaunt! Looking foward to new experiences but alas, it will not be all vacation since I am heading over to do work.

This travelogue will be written to encourage our family and friends to travel with us but it will also serve as a record of our journey so that when we return home and argue about who we met where and what we did when, there will be evidence that I am ...

... while on many an endeavour outside of Australia's sunny scapes. I'm hoping that you will follow my path as I venture from Sydney to Tokyo, Tokyo to Mexico City and Mexico City to Oaxaca, as I undertake a month of intensive Spanish study and cultural ...

Hola comrades y familia, Join me and my travel buddy Clare as we travel through South and Central America - Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Mexico and Cuba, beginning in June 2008. We will have lots of stories and photos to share with you, and would ...

Welcome to our trip of a life time around the world in a year! We will be taking you on a journey to India, Hong Kong, Tokyo, South East Asia, Sydney, New Zealand, The States and finally SOUTH AMERICA! Enjoy folks! :-) Liz and Rich x

Off to see the world, well some of it, Japan, Borneo, Malaysian Peninsula & Thailand. Should be fun, will let you know!

Just a list of places I've been before I went digital, no pictures. Different job, different life!

Finished University, didn't take a gap year, so now seems like the perfect opportunity to visit some of the places I have desperately wanted to visit before I join the working world and am doomed to only having 20 days off a year!

... I arrived in Tokyo at 6:30am. After we slowly made our way out of the busy airport we caught a cab to take us to the Peninsula Hotel. The drive was 70mins and the price was 7,000 JPY. Once we arrived at the hotel. We trekked to our suite and fell asleep. ...

... mini red Eiffel Tower. It didnt compare with the real one but it was still fun looking over and up at all of the buildings of Tokyo.The cold wind and spits of rain flew towards us. After we finished the tour the price came to 3,400 JPY for two adults. We ...

... was "The Path of Buddha," which traced the development of Buddhist statues from Ancient India, China, the Korean Peninsula, and Japan, providing insights about how Buddhist beliefs and statues developed in each region.       ...

...   B: Great! the capital of China!   vita: ........   As an asian, my job is to help them distinguish "Tokyo", "beijing" & "Hong Kong"   Actually it is normal, before I come to latin amercia, I don't even know some of the countries ...

... headed home.  It was Wednesday, October 8, and the Nikkei fell almost 10% that day. I checked-in to the Peninsula Hotel Tokyo.   What a superb location:  5-minutes from Tokyo Station at the edge of Ginza and overlooking Hibiya Park ...

... private courteous, some would eve say fake, style that transmits a sort of fascination at the oddity of this city.  Peninsula was a short walk away even though one would get lost  at the chiyoda quarter marked by its high buildings that ...

... Meiji Shrine. How does one town hold the most eccentric quarter of the city right next to the most religious centre? Yet Tokyo manages it handsomely.  Shinjuku is a mixture, a complex. After the shining electronid department one can reach ...

... completely after the war. After visiting these cities, we activated our Japan East Rail Pass and headed north to Oku-Matsushima Peninsula near the city of Sendai for some hiking and beaches. We camped there a couple of nights and there is definitely ...

... was so exhausted and my legs were KILLING me! The next day, at 5 AM, I took the Shinkansen train to Numazu Peninsula to go diving with underwater divers tokyo. An American from NY, named Jim, was my dive master. We went on two day dives, saw plenty of ...

... to very hot (Galapagos islands which is in Ecquador on the Equator), as well as from no civilization to the hippest cities (Tokyo and London), which meant I couldnīt just pack to dress like a bum. Anyways... none of the packing mattered for this ...