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Viajante Thick Black Line. An odyssey
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- 5 de mai. de 2017 21:30
- 🌙 18 °C
- Altitude: 36 pés
- Japão Tokyo Prefecture Taitō-ku Asakusa 35.71247, 139.7933435°42’45” N 139°47’36” E
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Ramen
5 de maio de 2017, Japão ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
Done it! I've finally eaten out (Mister Donut doesn't count). I'd noticed this place before, the pictures of the pork ramen looked enticing, so went in on the spur of the moment. Perhaps I shouldn't have just eaten a bag of pea snap crisps ...

It went relatively smoothly. The waitress (with face mask😷, not uncommon in Tokyo) pointed at the machine by the door. So having inserted my ¥1000 note (about £7) I selected Set Meal A. Out popped a ticket which I gave to her. All good so far. She sat me at the bar along the window, next to 2 young Japanese guys. There was a nice big jug of iced water just in front of one of them, handy because I hadn't ordered a drink, so I filled a glass and sat down. Then the waitress brought me my jug of iced water. Thus I blunder my way around Tokyo!Leia mais
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Viajante The ordering machine
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Viajante The gyozo dumplings were beautifully flavoursome and delicate. Just yum!
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Viajante Set Meal A: rice, pork broth (tonkotsu) ramen, gyozo. Tasty, but I'd completely over-ordered!
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Viajante Thick Black Line. An odyssey
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- 5 de mai. de 2017 10:00
- ☀️ 21 °C
- Altitude: 39 pés
- Japão Tokyo Prefecture Taitō-ku Asakusa 35.71216, 139.7931635°42’44” N 139°47’35” E
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Samurai & Ninja Safari
5 de maio de 2017, Japão ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Yes, really!

I was offered a free trip this morning by 2 guys drumming up custom for their ... erm... theatrical sightseeing trip around Asakusa. It started off in a normal way, picking out the local sights...then it all went panto!

There's a wicked ninja warrior creeping round the streets, a brave but slightly dim Samurai, a moon-walking Geisha and other incidental characters played by innocent bystanders. All wrapped up with plenty of slapstick on and off the bus. A complete hoot, and free because they had TV cameras on board and wanted a larger crowd. As it was there were only 7. Brilliant fun 😂Leia mais
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Viajante They use a San Francisco streetcar, neat in it's own right
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Viajante Behind you!
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Viajante Searching for the ninja warrior
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Viajante Thick Black Line. An odyssey
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- 27 de abr. de 2017 10:54
- ⛅ 15 °C
- Altitude: 39 pés
- Japão Tokyo Prefecture Taitō-ku Asakusa 35.71211, 139.7930135°42’44” N 139°47’35” E
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Tokyo arrival
27 de abril de 2017, Japão ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Made it. If I have one useful piece of information about the Tokyo subway to pass on it's this. It's not like London where trains are tied to lines, so unless you actively change train you will stay on, say, the Northern line. Nope. That confused me and I haven't seen it written anywhere. Luckily a station guard (literally) pushed me onto a train and it went where I needed, through a number of Keikyu Main Line stations to Asakusa Line stations.

Then it's a short and very pleasant walk from Asukasa station to my hostel. It hadn't looked much on the Google live view thing, but the area has a really nice feel. I'm gonna be ok here 😥

Just by way of contrast with last week's thunderbox, I now have a heated toilet seat! Which reminds me of the toilets at Hanida airport. They play the sound of running water; to encourage or to mask I know not!

I'm not exaggerating when I say there must be 300 small restaurants and cafes within 5 minutes walk of where I'm staying. All rather bewildering, but I've found a shop that sells milk and got a hot pork dumpling at the same time, so immediate problems solved!Leia mais
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Viajante My sleeping pod, complete with charging points. I also get a small locker
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Viajante One cool washroom view! Tokyo Skytree, the tallest tower, and second tallest structure, in the world. Observation floors at 350m and 450m (you can see them in the pic ... gives an idea of scale, erm bloody enormous! On my list 🙄
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Viajante My street, typical of all those round Asukasa
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Viajante Japan in May
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- 11 de mai. de 2016 22:17
- 🌙 20 °C
- Altitude: 10 m
- Japão Tokyo Prefecture Taitō-ku Asakusa 35.71383, 139.7938535°42’50” N 139°47’38” E
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Tokyo in a day
11 de maio de 2016, Japão ⋅ 🌙 20 °C
A busy day in Tokyo today. We started off in Narita where we stayed at the Richmond Hotel overnight and then worked our way across to Asakusa by train. We went for a boat trip down the Arakawa River to Odaiba which is a large artificial Island in Tokyo Bay. The weather was very blustery though, so we headed back to the Tokyo Skytree a 645 metre broadcasting, restaurant and observation tower in Sumida, Tokyo. Tallest communication tower in the world and very impressive. Didn't quite get to the Senso-ji Buddhist temple which is just a stones throw from our hotel. Perhaps tomorrow before we head out of Tokyo.Leia mais
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That is exactly your face from 1983 Japan! Loving the updates and photos, thanks heaps, Aunty Marvs xxx
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Is that magic light or is everything yellow ?? nice shot!
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Round the World in 205 Days
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- 3 de jul. de 2019 10:34
- ⛅ 27 °C
- Altitude: 14 m
- Japão Tokyo Prefecture Taitō-ku Asakusa 35.71333, 139.79535°42’48” N 139°47’42” E
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Asakusa walking tour
3 de julho de 2019, Japão ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
The TokyoLocalized Asakusa walking tour was a colourful and informative last minute addition to our touring plans. We managed to sign up the night before around midnight and coordinate with everyone to get to the Kaminari-mon meeting point for 10:30am!

Our guide Miyuki was a local resident who lived just a few metro stops from Asakusa. She shared stories about the legendary origins of buddhism in Japan at Senso-ji itself and took us around the quaint, adjacent shopping neighbourhoods. Miyuki was also full of fun trivia about modern Japan and the recent evolution of the Asakusa area, including Asahi's famous French design fail - the golden poop.Leia mais
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Viajante Japan 2010
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- 6 de jul. de 2010 10:00
- 🌫 26 °C
- Altitude: 19 m
- Japão Tokyo Prefecture Taitō-ku Asakusa 35.710605, 139.79742635°42’38” N 139°47’51” E
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Asakusa
6 de julho de 2010, Japão ⋅ 🌫 26 °C
We went to the Senso-Ji Temple on our first day. In this entry are photos of street scenes around Asakusa.

https://findpenguins.com/69wt4noajyp9d/trip/jap…
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Viajante Thick Black Line. An odyssey
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- 30 de abr. de 2017
- ☀️ 22 °C
- Altitude: 39 pés
- Japão Tokyo Prefecture Taitō-ku Asakusa 35.71213, 139.7931435°42’44” N 139°47’35” E
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Tokyo Food
30 de abril de 2017, Japão ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
An ongoing 'Tokyo food' footprint ... erm, foodprint?

I need to work on fruit and veg, I'm probably managing 1.5 per day thanks to lunchtime bananas.
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Viajante Google translate offered 'pebbly corn stick'. I thought it might be sweetcorn pizza, but it was sweetcorn mayonnaise on bread. Not my greatest success!
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Viajante Bunka Hostel bento box ¥780 which is about £5.50. Really good value and tasty too 😃
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Viajante Oh, the beer isn't included! That's Asahi Super Dry, ¥600 ~ £4.20 I thought it would be crisper, so I probably won't have another.
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Viajante Thick Black Line. An odyssey
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- 28 de abr. de 2017 22:00
- ⛅ 14 °C
- Altitude: 39 pés
- Japão Tokyo Prefecture Taitō-ku Asakusa 35.71227, 139.7930335°42’44” N 139°47’35” E
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Asakusa - local area
28 de abril de 2017, Japão ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Just a few bits and bobs in my local area.
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Viajante I think this is a tanuki (that may be plural). The tanuki are racoon-like creatures in folklore. As well as being pranksters they protect against fire and theft. There’s a whole row in slightly different forms along this street.
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Viajante Little buns, all different shapes. 7 for ¥500, so 50p each. I watched the man making them and couldn't resist. I have to say I'd imagined the filling was chocolatey rather than bean paste. Live and learn! Still tasty but 7 was too many to manage warm.
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Viajante It was the small print that really made me laugh. 'We jam out the beer like a band'. Go brother!
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Japan
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- 29 de mar. de 2017 12:48
- ☀️ 12 °C
- Altitude: 10 m
- Japão Tokyo Prefecture Taitō-ku Asakusa 35.71278, 139.7942635°42’46” N 139°47’39” E
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Bubble tea =)
29 de março de 2017, Japão ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Ook eens proberen hoe dit in Japan is =)
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Gmapannak Japan December 2015
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- 21 de dez. de 2015 12:21
- ⛅ 11 °C
- Altitude: 12 m
- Japão Tokyo Prefecture Taitō-ku Asakusa 35.71333, 139.7916735°42’48” N 139°47’30” E
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Lunch Special
21 de dezembro de 2015, Japão ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
Found a place for lunch. 1000¥ bought a great lunch near kitchen town
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