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Eat Italian food in Tokyo

This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. [May, 2013] Usually when I travel I like to be totally absorbed in local customs, so I eat only local foods because foods are one of the forms of…

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I’ve never seen a temple like this.

[Dec.2012] When we were having a walk around Tsukiji in Tokyo, we came across Tsukiji Honganji temple. I had known the name, but this was the first time actually to visit there. I was very…

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Unmistakably Asia

[Dec.2012] After being satisfied with seafood bowl at Tsukiji fish market, we had a walk around Tsukiji  Jougai Ichiba, market place just outside of the main fish market. Or we wanted to, but it was…

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Tokyo, nice and quiet atmosphere

[April 2012] We walked around the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Unfortunately this was the day they do not open to public, but still I enjoyed the cherry trees and the fresh green. When you turn…

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Stroll in Ginza

[April 2012] We had a walk in the pedestrianized street in Ginza, Tokyo. There are a few places you can sit down in the middle of the road. I have not come here for a…

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Akihabara

[April 2012]  I have not come to Akihabara in Tokyo for a very long time. Although it was a rainy day, we had a walk here in April. As before, there were myriads of adverts…

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A flood of weddings

[April 2012] This year the cherry trees blossomed later than usual and around the 7th April was the best in Tokyo. We had an opportunity to visit a famous wedding hall called Happoen in Tokyo….

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Edo experience

[April, 2011] This is a photo in Fukagawa Edo Museum in Tokyo. They remade houses in Edo era in the museum and people can get in those houses. It was a fun. A woman who loves…

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The old part of Tokyo

[January, 2010] People go to Kyoto to see the old Japan, but there are still some old parts left in Tokyo, too. This is a picture of one old house in Shibamata area. In winter,…