Tokyo Travel Blogs - Page 2

We all left early the next day around 9ish. Sean had to work, Megan had plans in Yokohama, Niji wanted to do some shopping for her Halloween costume before going back to Chiba, and my flight was at 330pm that afternoon. I said my goodbyes and thanks and returned to the hostel to shower an…

random photos i've collected from visiting so often. my sisters, maternal family, and now my parents (temporarily) are living here so i visit a few times a year. just thought you might like to see what my life here is like!

I decided to spend a few days in Tokyo and met up with an old school friend who was visiting Japan for skiing. The first day I headed into Tokyo it decided to snow and i mean snow big time.  I HATE SNOW.....being from the sunny warm Gold Coast in Australia where we never even get winter and y…

Tokyo is the international hub of Japan, so it's not surprising that the city has every kind of international cuisine available.  In fact, it seems that there are more Western and international eateries than Japanese nowadays.  I think Japan is hard to beat in terms of food.  You can…

  Tokyo is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan, and among the prefectures it is unique in providing certain municipal services characteristic of city. The seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family, Tokyo is the de facto capital of Jap…

I get into Tokyo, get to my hostel and try to meet up with Steph and Wayne... I get to the meeting point, but I fail to realize that EVERY metro station in Tokyo has ATLEAST 4 entrances, and most have 6!!! If you want to meet someone in Tokyo pick a place, a bar, with an address or else its a lost …

I don’t know how often sumo wrestling creeps into the Tokyo tourist’s list of to-dos, but this was my first time. Though I geared up for the momentous occasion (compliments of my father who scored awesome front-row tickets) by downloading Sisqo’s Thong Song, I forgot to crack :) jokes I had p…

Excited isn't enough to describe how I feel as I left my apartment from Manhattan's Upper East Side to Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey. Actually, I was exhausted. After working 5 nights out of 6, I went out to have lunch with friends, went shopping, and watched Shakespeare i…

I had just written a long blog, and then the wireless failed... :( more work in the morning and afternoon. In between we had lunch at Sigori, a French restaurant with a 1* Michelin rating. The own-shot-deer-by-le-chef tasted brilliant and the wine-cellar with over 7000(!) bottles was a paradise to…

Japan.  Land of the Rising Sun.  For my maternal ancestry, this is our motherland.A family trip, with me at the age of 25, may not be exactly what I imagined my first trip to Japan.  But looking back on it, I wouldn't have wanted it any other way.  Call me uncool or dorky... I d…

This picture was taken near the Imperial Palace in Tokyo and reminded me of Radiohead's Karma Police Karma police, arrest this manHe talks in mathsHe buzzes like a fridgeHe's like a detuned radioKarma police, arrest this girlHer Hitler hairdo isMaking me feel illAnd we have crashed her partyThis i…

As the semester quickly came to a close toward the end of January, things became kind of hectic. Sayonara-parties, farewell-parties, and just plain partying-for-the-last-time-together-parties were in full force. Of course, this was all around our school schedule as well, what with studying, papers,…

Scenery in the neighborhood. Temple, Shrine, Tea ceremony, Manga, Anime, ...

At the Kokugikan, the Sumo Stadium in Ryogoku, Tokyo each year in january, may and september, the Grand Sumo Tournament takes place where all the sumo wrestlers come together. The tournament starts at in the morning with matches between new sumo trainees, followed by the Jonokuchi bo…

It was time to leave Fukuoka for our inland flight to Tokyo and then to our connecting flight to Amsterdam to go back home. After 3 weeks of touring this beautiful country, seeing so many places and sights, meeting my friend in Tokyo, witnessing 2 sporting events (the Sumo Tournament in Tokyo and …