Tokyo 2019: Kaminarimon and Nakamise at night
On my arrival night for my second visit to Tokyo I spent a couple hours in Asakusa, starting by the Sumida River and then moving…
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On my arrival night for my second visit to Tokyo I spent a couple hours in Asakusa, starting by the Sumida River and then moving…
Continue reading → Tokyo 2019: Kaminarimon and Nakamise at night
My stay in Hakone had come to an end and it was time to return to Tokyo for the final few days of my 2019…
We’re now down to the last week of my 2019 journey and it was at this point that I finally came back to the Kanto…
Three years ago today my first trip across Japan and Korea began. For six weeks I wandered all across both nations, spending four and a…
Continue reading → Japan-Korea 2017 Began Three Years Ago Today!
One year ago today I got on a flight bound for Tokyo and began the journey that I’ve been writing about for the past several…
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I didn’t quite feel like calling it a night after visiting Asakusa, so I took the subway across town to see Shibuya again. The entire…
When I left the sumo arena after they day’s tournament was over it was getting dark outside and I headed over to Asakusa to take…
I got back to the sumo arena just after 2:00pm and by then it was a completely different scene than what it had been earlier…
Continue reading → Tokyo 2019: Afternoon Sumo Tournament Matches
After spending some time watching the morning sumo tournament matches I left the sumo arena to do a little sightseeing before returning for the afternoon…
Every September there is a two-week national sumo tournament held in Tokyo and when I was in the city last year I was fortunate enough…
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