Like this post? Help us by sharing it! On the 2nd of January, I went to see 79 year old Emperor Akihito at his Palace in central Tokyo. It was a huge event – you can go only go into the Palace grounds twice a year, on his birthday and for New Year celebrations. I […]
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The Best Bar in Kabukicho
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! A wander around nightime Kabukicho, Tokyo’s red light district, is a memorable experience. Excited tourists from all around the world come to photograph and walk amongst Kabukicho’s numerous garish neon signed venues. But if you actually want to get a drink somewhere, you need luck and good judgement to avoid disappointment. […]
The Happy Hooligan: An afternoon watching J-League football
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! A skinhead in a bomber jacket, rolled- up jeans and red Doc Martens rushed towards me. “Hi, we’re upstairs, let’s go” he said. His name was Yamada, and he was my hooligan friend for the afternoon. Like this post? Help us by sharing it!
AiTO conference 2009: debate, discussion, curry, beer and a glorious cricketing failure
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Working in travel is a job with many benefits. Our job here at InsideJapan Tours basically boils down to providing amazing experiences for people and making people happy, which is why I wanted to work in travel in the first place. However, every now and again I […]
Stocktaking the weird: A walk around Nakano Broadway
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Nakano Broadway sells nothing useful. Like Akihabara, its east Tokyo rival, it sells large quantities of bizarre manga and anime spin-off novelty items. Unlike Akihabara, which at least manages to sell some useful things, (TVs, cameras, computers, etc) in Nakano its all useless. Much of the bin […]
A pre-soak soaking – hiking in the rain to Kurama Onsen
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Sunday 1st November 2009: Another month, another bath! What better way to celebrate the turning of the calendar from October to November than a journey out to visit an onsen that has long captured my imagination and yet in 10 years of visiting Japan I had failed […]
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Sunday 1st November 2009: Another month, another bath! What better way to celebrate the turning of the calendar from October to November than a journey out to visit an onsen that has long captured my imagination and yet in 10 years of visiting Japan I had failed […]