Like this post? Help us by sharing it! After some exciting blog posts in recent times, today I bring you a practical no nonsense bit of travel advice. It’s a little dry but it could save you a lot of money and that has to be a good thing! Nobody likes paying commission on currency […]
April 2011
Monday night in Shinjuku, Tokyo
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Monday April 18th 7pm was the last night and our final dinner of the first Hidden Japan tour of the year. We were in Shinjuku, the bright neon heart of central Tokyo. We ate at a traditional izakaya (Japanese diner). Earlier in our tour, we had a memorable picnic under the sakura […]
Chiba Prefecture. Who knew?
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Brown's Field
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! My colleague calls it the armpit of Japan. Well, Chiba certainly has a distinctive shape; a huge prefecture sticking out at a great ugly right-angle, like a protective claw around Tokyo bay. And it feeds the capital too, providing millions upon millions of cheap concrete apartment blocks […]
Tokyo life – business as usual shock
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Hanami - what could be better
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Whilst the headlines have been screaming of imminent and impending doom, all the reports we have been receiving have been of life in the capital returning rapidly to normal, of the Japanese just “getting on with it”. Could this possibly be true? I went to Japan to […]
More radiation in Cornwall or Tokyo?
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Although the Fukushima Plant continues make headlines, Bob Bury, the former clinical lead for the U.K.’s Royal College of Radiologists, says that a number of countries and cities around the world have naturally occurring radiation levels that exceed Tokyo’s, even during this time of crisis. Meanwhile, the […]
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Although the Fukushima Plant continues make headlines, Bob Bury, the former clinical lead for the U.K.’s Royal College of Radiologists, says that a number of countries and cities around the world have naturally occurring radiation levels that exceed Tokyo’s, even during this time of crisis. Meanwhile, the […]