…which include AMAZING JAPANESE FOOD, autumnal colours and tilted roofed houses around the Imperial Palace Gardens, the Tokyo Metropolitan Building and its high views, the electric city Akihabara, with a final morning ending with Shibuya crossing (part 3) and what else than SUSHI. ____________ Did you know Japanese sugar comes in long tubes? (Did you […]
Shibuya
Quirky Harajuku Street
Osaka, Tokyo You Harajuku girls Damn, you’ve got some wicked style… Sings Gwen Stefani in probably her best song, What you waiting for? many, many years ago. One of the things I was most looking forward to in Tokyo was the famous Harajuku shopping street, spotting funkily dressed, stylish, fashionable Japanese people and, well, maybe be able […]
Tokyo – the modern, the historic and the cute
I woke up in Tokyo on my first day in Japan, feeling slightly anxious and out of my comfort zone. Tokyo. It’s pretty big. (The most populous metropolitan area in the world, with a population of 38,6 million in the metropolitan area. That’s nearly eight Finlands.) I’d arrived at the hostel at around 1am, following a […]