Blogs from Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, Asia - page 12

Take off from Heathrow. After a frantic customs I am hot, sweaty, nervous and tired. I didnt sleep much last night {or the night before} in preparation for my flight. I couldnt find my Valium so had to improvise! Ive got the window seat on the plane, which wouldnt be so bad if i wasnt such a sap and actually liked flying...haha The signs are good. Ive already started a conversation with the Japanese guy next to me, he seems pretty cool. His name is Sasheda and he works in Sales & Marketing. He has been to London on business, trying to seel some dodgy gadget. I comment that "He is one of the bad guys" in a Bill Hicks type way. Thankfully he takes it in the humourous way it was meant to be. I ... read more

Dag 2 - Morning tour, Akihabara og Shibuya Vi startet dagen med å hoppe på morning touren klokken 08:05. Henning var litt skeptisk til den, men det viste seg at det var verdt det. Vi fikk sett mye, som vi ikke trenger å reise tilbake til nå, og vi fikk en god oversikt over noen plasser i Tokyo. Guiden var også veldig bra. Touren varte i noen timer og vi var nok ferdige med den rundt 13:00. Da spanderte guiden en taxi tur til Ginza, som er et stort, og dyrt, shopping distrikt. Etter å ha brukt litt tid i Ginza, fant vi ut at det var for det meste dyre vestlige ting som solgtes her (dyre klær og sånt..) så vi fant ut at det var ingen vits for oss å fortsette å være her. ... read more

My Japanese friend who had lived in L.A told me only Japan did have wide varieties of snacks. Actually, there are many kinds of and different tastes of snacks in Japan. It is possible for you to eat different flavors of chocolate for two weeks. I want to introduce Japanese Kitkat Tokyo section because it is very special if you compare to other countries. Chocolate in Tokyo might disappoint Europeans because it doesn’t have much cacao and milk flavors. However, chocolate companies in Japan worked hard to sell more chocolate to people because they don’t get used to the flavor. Kitkat created special tastes using Japanese fruits, seasonings and vegetables. It is funny prefectures of Japan have own tastes of Kitkat for souvenirs. Joerg and I found two bags of Kitkat which had strawberry and Kinako ... read more

So, last night, in the heart of Tokyo, Maureen and I went fishing----sort of. On the first floor of the Washington Hotel is a wild restaurant called Zauo. We had read about it a while ago and thought it sounded fun and touristy. Last night, we checked it out. You notice a few things when you walk in: first, there's a faux boat in the middle of the restaurant, and said boat is surrounded by water. Second, every table has tiny little fishing poles. Third, no English is spoken or written. The last one of those observations is quite unusual for a tourist spot...It turns out, this was not the overpriced, expat experience we had set out for. The patrons were all locals, and for such an experience, it wasn't ridiculously expensive. We were given a ... read more

Am Samstag war wunderschoenes Wetter. Sonnig und warm in der Sonne, im Schatten kuehl. Ich habe mich frueh auf den Weg nach Shinjuku zum Metropolitan Office Building gemacht. Ein sehr schoenes und vor allem modernes Rathaus. Man kann umsonst die schoene Aussicht auf Tokyo geniessen. Ich wuerde jedem raten, seine Tour durch Tokyo hier zu beginnen, vor allem weil es　hier im Tourist Information Center ganz viele Infos ueber Tokyo gibt und die Angestellten super gut englisch sprechen. Halt ein guter Ausganzpunkt fuer jeden Tokyo-reisenden. Leider wusste ich das nicht frueher. Da das Wetter so schoen klar war, konnte ich zum ersten mal Fujisan sehen :) dieser Berg hat echt eine super Ausstrahlung, die man leider nicht auf Fotos festhalten kann. Die Aussicht auf Tokyo war atemberaubend schoen. :) Und ich konnte zusaetzlich einpaar Souvenirs kaufen. Danach ... read more