I already talked about several different sights in Tokyo to check out. But after you visited many of the normal and well trodden sites, what do visitors to Tokyo to do? Well the world’s largest city has more to show you than just those places. Thankfully there are some interesting places to check that may be a bit out of the ordinary. Here are a … [Read more...]
Category: Asia
A tour through the Ghibli Museum
I've been to Tokyo more than a dozen times and never once seemed to find the time or the opportunity to make it to the Ghibli museum. That is one of the general issues of business travel specifically is that you can never really know your schedule ahead of time and getting tickets for the museum requires advanced time and date reservation as well … [Read more...]
Himono Restaurant — Shinjuku, Japan
I have been to many different types of eateries while in Tokyo, so it is always exciting when I get to try something new. When my friend asked if I wanted to go to a Himono Restaurant, I was both excited and well curious as to what that was. Himono is a style of preparing fish that consists of drying the fish and then later grilling it … [Read more...]
A Night in Golden Gai – Tokyo
I have been to Tokyo many times in the past, and I have always wanted to go to Golden Gai but never got the opportunity to. But when I was talking with my coworker about it this time, he had mentioned he might be interested in going too and being that this may be one of my last trips (although I always say that), I really knew that I needed to try … [Read more...]
Fugu-me – Adventures in Dangerous Foods
"If they ask us to prepay....I'm out", I said to Patrick with a smirk. Patrick and I were slowly approaching one of many fugu specific restaurants here in Tokyo. I looked up at the building, a big blowfish head adorned the upper part of the building's front face and a large tank full of fish was prominently placed near the … [Read more...]
Konichiwa from Hokkaido
So just to let people know that we are still alive and well! Things here are fabulous, a little tired, but relaxing quickly and I cant imagine that I haven't even started work yet so my trip has really yet to begin. So we awoke early from our hotel in Goshogawara, content that the main objective of our trip (seeing the house) was … [Read more...]
Heading North — Tokyo to Aomori
Greetings from Japan, So I'm currently sitting in a hotel room in Goshogawara in Northern Honshu... So here's the story so far. Well basically I was supposed to be out in Tokyo on Thursday for work, but one of my current coworkers (who is also on this trip) is going to be moving to Northern Honshu later this year for a couple years … [Read more...]
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