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Back to: HomeTokyo is said to be one of the busiest cities in the World where space is a premium. However, Tokyo is also a great place to visit to get a flavour of Japanese life if you know how to find your way around.
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Park Hyatt Tokyo Hotel
If you've seen the movie Lost in Translation starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson then you'll already be familiar with the Park Hyatt Tokyo hotel in Shinjuku. The film features many scenes set in the rooms of the hotel and also in its New York Bar. It's one of those films that people either seem to love or hate. Personally, I love it. Therefore, when I was planning my first trip back to Japan for 5 years in March/April 2010, I decided that a stay at the Park Hyatt was a must. Unfortunately, since my trip was going to involve moving between Tokyo, Yokohama, Kyoto, and Hiroshima, I could only really manage one night in the Park Hyatt but I hopefully managed to capture a decent representation of the hotel in these photos and article... read more... |
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Punkspring 2010 Music Festival - Tokyo
On Sunday 4th April, I caught the train from Shinjuku out to Kaihin Makuhari to rock out at the Tokyo leg of the Punkspring festival at the Makuhari Messe centre. From Shinjuku Station, I had to get the Chuo Line to Tokyo Station, which was good as I'd got that same line to Akihabara the day before and knew that the entrance to Shinjuku Station nearest to my hotel took me almost straight to those platforms. The journey was fairly quick but at Tokyo Station there was an extremely long walk to get to the platforms for the Keiyo Line that would take me to Kaihin Makuhari Station. The walk involved several escalators and travelling walkways. Eventually, I made it onto the train for Kaihin Makuhari... read more... |
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Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
On Sunday 28th March 2010, I visited the Harajuku area of Tokyo for the first time in five years. I'd walked through there a few days earlier on my way from Shibuya to Shinjuku but this was going to be the first time I'd gone back there on a fully swinging Sunday afternoon. I'd spent the previous couple of days in Yokohama so by the time I'd dropped my travel bag off at the hotel and set off towards Harajuku it was getting on for 2pm. Walking down Meiji Dori, it was very busy and the two lane traffic flow on the pavement didn't allow me much room for overtaking. I have quite long legs and like to walk at a quick pace but it was hard to nip around people without risking hitting either them or the people coming the other way with my rucksack. One thing I noticed was how stylish everybody looked. No two people looked the same and everybody seemed to have put some really thought into their outfits. It wasn't like walking through... read more... |
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Sunday in Harajuku
If you're visiting Japan but only have the time to grab one slice of Japanese youth culture then you can't do much better than a trip on a sunny sunday afternoon to Harajuku, Tokyo. This is the gathering place for what must number hundreds of Japanese teens and young adults to hang out and make their various fashion statements. One of the first things to note about the chosen gathering place is that it's right outside the entrance to park containing the Meiji-Jingu shrine, the largest Shinto shrine in Tokyo. In a strange way though, this contrast of traditional Japanese religious beliefs and modern youth culture adds to... read more... |
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Tokyo, Japan - A look at things to see and do in Tokyo including Tokyo hotels, Tokyo restaurants and Tokyo nightlife.