Blogs from Tokyo, Japan, Asia - page 12

This was my last full day in Tokyo. I have enjoyed my time here. It is a nice, safe, undemanding city to use as my first stop while I adjust to the time and get fully into “travel mode”. Today is a national holiday called Sports Day. I’m not sure what the significance of it is, but it has not affected my itinerary much. Some museums are closed, so I spent much of the day outdoors. My first stop was to return to Yoyogi Park. (I misspelled it as “Yoyoji” yesterday.) Today I walked to the Meiji Shrine, a place honoring the Meiji Emperor who ruled from 1868-1912 and who was responsible for pulling Japan out of the almost feudal Shogun period and changing it into a modern industrialized world power. This is a Shinto shrine ... read more

Greetings to my blog readers! I am just beginning another travel adventure. I plan to go around the world again, this time in a westerly direction. So I am starting RTW2 in Japan. I arrived yesterday, but I don’t have much to tell you about that because I agree with the person who said that nothing is more boring than listening to the story of someone else’s travel delays. Today I spent my time exploring Tokyo and I managed to get in several sights. I started at the Yasukuni Shrine and Yushukan Museum. This is a controversial place because the shrine’s purpose is to remember and venerate the nation’s war dead, including a number of officers who were convicted of war crimes in WWII. Photography is not allowed inside the shrine, but the museum permits photos ... read more

On y est depuis 4 jours. Beaucoup d’effervescence dans cette bourgade de 35, millions d’habitants. On pourrait aisément y loger toute la population du Canada qui s’y trouverait probablement très à l’étroit compte tenu des millions de kilomètres carrés dont nous disposons pour nous “épivarder”et il resterait sans doute un peu d’espace pour la croissance étant donné que nous n’atteignons toujours pas ce niveau de peuplement. Bien sur la population “in muro” n’est que de 8millions mais si on ajoute tout le reste de la bergerie qui gravite autour communément appelé la banlieu on dénombre 27 autres millions de petits japonais qui y grenouillent emportant dans leurs sillage de petits pas une étoudissante activité quasi inhumaine. Entré au travail au chant du coq et rarement ressorsti avant le hululement de la chouette nocturne notre petit japonais ... read more

Vi har efterhånden været i Japan i en håndfuld dage og er allerede en masse indtryk rigere. Der første dage gik med sightseeing i Tokyo, byen blev vadet rundt og vi fik både kigget, oplevet og, Inger mindst, smagt på hovedstaden i Solens Rige. Storby siger mig ikke så meget, men Tokyo glædede jeg mig egentlig til at se og den skuffer absolut ikke, uden tvivl den fedeste metropol jeg har været i. Japan, og japanerne, skiller sig ret meget ud fra resten af de lande vi har oplevet, de er regelryttere af en skuffe man ikke vidste fandtes. Det gør byen virkelig behagelig at være i, selvom ca 15mio på lidt plads kan kaotisk, et byen renere end nogen by i DK - skrald og skodder på gaden, og tyggegummi på asfalt er ikke-eksisterende, trafik ... read more

We left the hotel and walked to the metro station to go to the fish market, on the way past, we walked by a little vending machine that sold hats for cats, they were hilarious. Bear ears, bunny ears and a hat that looked like a boiled sweet, obviously, I had to get one! Molly the cat is going to be SO impressed when I get home!! When we arrived in the area where the fish market is, we walked into a tiny walkway lined with market stalls with household goods, veggies, fish and meat. The market was very busy despite the later time, Michie took us to a stall to try a local cake, round and heavy with a choice of filling with chocolate, custard, soya beans, black sesame and many more, because I’ve been ... read more