A Buddhist break

Before we were going to start with all the stress of moving and packing and saying goodbye etc. we decided to take a nice and peaceful break. And what would be better than a Buddhist break? So we traveled all the way south to mount Koya, which is a secluded mountain village that consists of …

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Chinese Tokyo

And finally, a post about the Chinese side of Tokyo :-p We went to Chinatown in Yokohama, and to the Kawasaki entertainment hall. What does that last one have to do with China? Well, the whole inside of that gamecenter is decorated like the (now demolished) Walled City of Kowloon! The outside already looks awesome …

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Moody Tokyo

Tokyo is very moody during the night. We wandered around the city each night, visited all kinds of shady restaurants and bars, and made loooots of photos.Especially the Shinjuku district is very atmospheric. It reminds of movies like Blade Runner.We visited “Piss Alley”, named after the public toilet there, used heavily since the area is …

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Crazy Tokyo

Time for craaaaazy Tokyo! Ofcourse Tokyo is the place to be to experience some weird crazy stuff, it is closest to the image of Japan most Westerners have, and sometimes I think in Tokyo they tend to exaggerate some of the craziness because they know tourists love that. So the crazy things we experienced were usually …

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Lovely Tokyo

We went to Tokyo for a couple of days, just to have fun and visit some places we never gotten around to visiting, because who knows when we will come back to Japan??? So I am going to make 4 posts about different sides of Tokyo. We did so so so much different awesome things there that it …

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