The internet said that conbinis (convenience stores) sold day passes for the buses, so we picked up a couple from Lawsons around the corner and headed for the city centre, More… →
If we were going to get around Kyoto we needed a bus map; the subway just doesn’t have the same kind of reach as it does in Tokyo (where we More… →
The subway was busy but not so crowded that travelling with our backpacks was a problem, and we had no difficulty remembering the route to the shinkansen platforms at Tokyo More… →
The weather had turned again for our last full day in Tokyo, but it wasn’t too wet for us to walk to Okubo station via a meandering route through the More… →
Originally we had planned on just admiring Mount Fuji from afar, but it had been too hazy to see it from the Metropolitan Building in Shinjuku, and the weather forecast More… →
If you want to watch the tuna auction at Tsukiji fish market you have to get there before 4am to get one of only 120 visitor passes. Not flippin’ More… →
Wednesday was sunny too, so we made an effort to get out early and headed for Seibu Shinjuku station and one of the many private suburban railways that serve Tokyo. More… →
If Tokyo has a centre then it’s occupied by the Imperial Palace, an 850 acre oasis that forces all the roads to divert around it. Occupying the site of a More… →
Sunday’s sunshine didn’t last long: we woke to pouring rain – and went back to sleep. After the week’s exertions we were pretty tired; it had been many years since More… →
As it was sunny on Sunday we decided to check out Yoyogi Park, but first made a short detour to the Shinjuku Metropolitan Building, whose twin towers hold 45th floor More… →