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Nostalgic town

[ Jan.2015 ] We went to Ramen Museum in Shin-Yokohama in Japan with our family.Ramen is a popular Japanese noodle soup dish.I had only heard that this museum is a place where many Ramen shops…

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Show

[ Jan.2015 ] At the beginning, one of our friends who lives in London and was back in Japan at the same time as us said “There is a Tokyo sight seeing bus which includes…

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Lovely time at Tokyo Tower

[ Jan.2015 ] We went up Tokyo Tower. I had not been up there for decades. The hight of this tower is 333 metres which is 13 metres more than Eiffel Tower in Paris. It…

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Zojoji

[ Jan.2015 ] When we were walking towards Tokyo Tower, we came across a grand temple. That was Zojoji. Only a few days before, we went to Tanjoji and that was a main temple of…

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Walk in Yanaka

[ Jan.2015 ] After visitin Asakura Museum of Sculpture, we had a walk around Yanaka area in Tokyo. The damage from Great Kanto earthquake in 1923 and WW2 was relatively small in this area, so…

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Asakura Museum of Sculpture

[ Jan.2015 ] A friend of ours took us to Asakura Museum of Sculpture in Yanaka in Tokyo. It situated in a relaxing residentianl town. They spent four years to renovate this museum and recently…

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Cape Futtsu

[ Dec.2014 ] The last stop of our family holiday was Cape Futtsu in Chiba prefecture in Japan. Before going to the end of the cape, we had a lunch. We had conger eel meal…

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Tasting

[ Dec.2014 ] In our short family holiday, we went to a sake brewery in Boso area in Chiba prefecture in Japan.It was called “Sommelier House Sakasho-no-Yakata”.I was imagining a very old establishment like the…

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Madness of sea breams

[ Dec.2014 ] We took a sight seeing boat which started just next to our hotel in Awa Kominato in Chiba, Japan. We had not done our homework about  the tour beforehand, so I was…