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Driving the Aqua Line

[ Mar.2016 ] We went all the way to go through a road called Tokyo Bay Aqua Line, which connects Kisarazu in Chiba and Kawasaki in Kanagawa, as …

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The Town for the ‘Salary Men’

[ May, 2015 ] I thought Shimbashi in Tokyo, Japan, had completely changed, because the last few times I met with my friends at the Shiodome side of the station, which has been redeveloped, it looked…

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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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2k540

[ Dec.2014 ] “2k540” sounds like a code number, but in fact it is the name of craft arcade under the railway between Akihabara station and Okachimachi station in Tokyo. We went there for the…

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Traditional ceremony

[ Dec.2014 ] Our friend said “How about going to the Kanda Shrine and drink Amazake (sweet beverage made from fermented rice or sake lees)?”, so we went there. I have known the name of…