A Stroll around Kameido
Kameido Horumon had left such an impression on me that one weekend I set aside some time to walk around Kameido. Kameido Gyoza Not open yet. This is another popular place with a long line, but I was short …
Kameido Horumon had left such an impression on me that one weekend I set aside some time to walk around Kameido. Kameido Gyoza Not open yet. This is another popular place with a long line, but I was short …
I heard that the Suntory brewery famous for The Premium Malt’s is in Musashino, so I went to see it. Premium Malt’s is delicious even as it is, and I had high hopes since you can taste it fresh, st…
I went to Odaiba on a sunny weekend. Going by way of Toyosu, it turned out to be closer than I thought. The Toyosu scenery Beautiful. A great road for running. The Gundam at DiverCity Tokyo The Gundam, th…
I recently read Born to Run and started running in earnest. Running is good for you to begin with, but since I had hardly ever run in my whole life, once I actually tried it I found that my body had been cravi…
One weekend in the autumn of 2012 I went to Tokyo DisneySea. Going on a weekend rather than a weekday made for a pretty hard day. So honestly I did not particularly want to go.. but things in life do not alway…
Somehow I ended up on a trip around the Hamamatsu area of Shizuoka. Here are a few photos I took while wandering around. Manneken of Ginza at a highway rest area It looked like it had only just opened, and …
Sano is an ordinary rural town surrounded by rice paddies and fields, but it has a huge outlet mall. When I actually went, the place was packed, and I have no idea how everyone found out about it. A view of S…
I used the weekend to make a quick trip to a place called Sano in Tochigi Prefecture. I doubt many people in Korea have heard of it, but it is known for its premium outlet mall and Sano ramen. You take the tra…
Right before the weekend a friend suddenly got in touch. He wanted to go somewhere, anywhere, and asked if I could come along. So after some deliberation about where to go, we settled on Yunessun, the hot spri…
The weekend came around again and I had no plans at all. I have been doing nothing but work lately and had no time to move my body, so I went to Mt. Takao to at least get a hike in. Honestly, it is such a smal…
The Sumida River Fireworks Festival in Asakusa, held every summer, has to be the most famous fireworks show in Tokyo. The crowds it draws are absolutely enormous. Luckily, you can see the fireworks right from …
Odaiba is famous as a tourist spot, but it also has big shopping malls and is easy to reach by car, which makes it a handy place to go shopping. I had a lot of things to buy on this trip to Japan, so I ended u…