Musings

Akihabara – the mecca in Tokyo for all things manga and anime. And since the target demographic is routinely the same, it’s also the city’s famous district for all things electronic! I’m not really into manga or anime these days,

Our itinerary after visiting the Rikugien Garden was to check out the Fabre Insect Museum, but we dropped that as we’d already spent half the day visiting gardens. We headed to the Yanaka Ginza, a traditional Japanese shopping street that

We spent an hour at the Koishikawa Korakuen Garden, then made our way to the Rikugien Garden, a place that we’d originally included as our first stop in the Day 10 itinerary. According the guide, the Rikugien is a circuit-styled

Day 10 and our last full day in Tokyo before we head off to Nikko for the third segment of our trip. We didn’t realize this during the initial planning of the itinerary, but there is a garden situated beside

Oh boy: this one is where we’ll just post pictures! From where the Buddhist Temple is on our left, we continued for just a minute more and on the left is an alley that is Candy Alley: you can’t miss

8 days done and we’re coming to the midpoint in our 18 day trip. On Day 09 today, we headed to Kawagoe, a town with a rich history – and specifically that was made prosperous by merchants during the Edo

We headed back in the general direction of Tokyo Station after our visit to Small Worlds, and reached it a short 28 minute bus ride later. We had a couple hours to kill before the winter illumination along Marunouchi came

We hunted down Uomasala, an Indian restaurant in the vicinity after our visit to TeamLab Planets for an early lunch, and made our way to Small Worlds Tokyo after that. This is an indoor museum – apparently the world’s largest

Our itinerary for Day 08 in Tokyo primarily featured two indoor places to check out; firstly for the morning, TeamLab Planets, an interactive museum that features both digital art and stylish gardens. We’d booked tickets already several weeks ago through

We were back in Shinjuku from Mt. Takao at 2PM, and the first order of business was to figure out what was by now an already pretty late lunch. We ducked into a Saboten restaurant at Keio Mall Shinjuku Station,

Mt. Takao was our main place of visitation on Day 07 of our 18 day trip. This mountain is relatively near Tokyo at just 50km west of the city, and is a frequent half-day trip for residents of the city,

The trains we’d been on in our previous and also this visit to Tokyo had gone by the famous Shibuya Scramble Crossing several times before, but we’d not until today actually been at the crossing. It’s indeed quite an organised