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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The Tallest Tower in the World

With its 634 meters, the Tokyo Skytree is the tallest tower in the world! That’s one impressive building, especially when you realize it’s built in the middle of an earthquake-heavy area… We didn’t climb it (yet), but made some beautiful pictures as the sun was going down. Tall isn’t it!!! :-p     And the …

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Panda!

We visited the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo and saw our first panda ever :-) They look extremely cute I have to say, sitting there on their butts and eating bamboo all day.    They’re so cool! They are the main attraction of Ueno Zoo, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any other exotic animals around: …

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Sakura blossoms and more

I just love how Japan changes in color and atmosphere during the year. The blossom time is fantastic, in February the plums are all blooming bright and around the end of March the beautiful cherry blossom trees go in full bloom. Everyone is having fun and sitting underneath the trees, barbecuing, drinking beer, having a good time :-). …

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Birthday Party on the 52th floor!

♪Happy(。´_●`)ノ┌iiii┐ヾ(´○_`*)Birthday♪ March 2nd was Wards birthday and we celebrated it with a lot of delicious foods :D We started the day by going to Takano, a very famous fruit and delicacies store that sells strawberries for 100 euros a box (!). If you don’t want to pay that much but want to have a chance to …

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Tokyo Game Show 2012

We went to the Tokyo Game Show!! This massive and popular game event shows all the new and upcoming (Japanese) games and is ofcourse a must-see for us :-) All the big Japanese game companies were there, showing their new stuff: Square Enix… Konami… With Hideo Kojima ofcourse :D Level 5… And ofcourse: CAPCOM! I …

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Comiket Cosplay

Today I went to Comic Market. The biggest comic event in Japan, and maybe the world. It’s absolutely massive, there where so many people! I took some shots of a couple of cosplayers for everyone to enjoy :D!  

Ooooo…Aaaaaa…Hanabi!

Summer in Japan means fireworks and festivals! And not just any fireworks, the bigger the better! Each fireworks festival attracts thousands of people and the viewing spots are already full with people hours before the show starts. We went to the Tokyo Sumigawa fireworks show, one that has a long history and is said to …

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Green Tokyo

Today I went for a stroll in the neighbourhoods Meguro and Ebisu, and came across some very nice parks and green areas. On a hot day like today, these are the best places to go! The National Science Museum of Tokyo has an institute for Nature Study, which basically is a huge park filled with a …

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Together in Tokyo

We’re spending a week together in Tokyo before Marthe goes to Osaka to start her job! The first day, we went together to the area where Wards work is located, Odaiba. Odaiba  is near the ocean and harbours, and it’s a very wide and spacious neighbourhood with huge buildings and malls. We had beautiful weather! …

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Relaxing From Busy Tokyo: Yokohama

To conclude our Tokyo trip we went to Yokohama, the second biggest town of Japan, and Tokyo’s neighbour. Actually the two towns are really intertwined,  so it feels like one big town. But where Tokyo’s city center is busy and flashy, Yokohama feels like a more relaxed place, with a lot of water, wide areas …

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Tokyo Parasites

Oooo the Parasite Museum in Tokyo is really nasty… :-p The museum is filled with bottled up parasites, growing out of all kinds of animals and body parts… The museum shop has some funny souvenirs, including tapeworm keychains haha. We had fun, but I also felt a bit queezy afterwards :-) Parasite artwork!   So …

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The Skyscrapers of Shinjuku

We visited Shinjuku, the business district of Tokyo. This area has the world’s busiest station (!!) and the area is filled with huge skyscrapers, really impressive!   The view from Tokyo Metropolitan Building, 45th floor, 202 meters :) The fantastic buildings of Shinjuku:   Tokyo Tower 2012! Tokyo is so big, even from the 45th …

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Electric Town Akihabara

  Today we visited Akihabara, a lively, loud an colorful neighbourhood in Tokyo, completely filled with electronics, manga, anime and game shops! Here are some impressions of this hectic area.   Thousands of weirdly shaped buildings filled with games, dvds, books and electronics   Neon lights and signs everywhere   Extravagant manga cars   The …

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New year in Tokyo

Happy 2012, the year of the Dragon!! We travelled to Tokyo to celebrate the new year! We took the shinkansen, the fast bullet train, and bought a nice ekibento, which is a lovely little lunchbox especially made for train travel. Kyoto and Tokyo have no snow, but the area in between was completely white! New …

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