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    • TravelerJapan trip
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      Day 1

      Day 2

      April 29 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

      Another long day as out for 12 hours with a lot of walking (23k steps!). Left the hotel at around 10am as slept through an alarm because of jet lag. Had some nice Japanese pattiseries for breakfast although mine had crème cheese and custard mixed which was a bit weird. We then headed into Tokyo centre which is around a 30 min metro ride from our local station! We had booked the open top city bus tour and spent an hour and a half touring Tokyo. Luckily was a nice day so nice to sit out in shorts on the bus and learn some history. After we walked 30 mins or so to the famous Tsujiki fish market to see some of the stalls! As we were on our way we spotted a big queue of locals going into a ramen restaurant (usually a sign for good food) so we stopped for lunch there and had a nice bowl of hearty ramen pictured below! They make it all in front of you as you sit around the kitchen on stools at a bar with all Japanese sitting in silence slurping away! Luckily they give you big apron as as it’s good manners to slurp in Japan the broth from the ramen goes everywhere! We both had a nice Japanese beer and are working through them. After we went to the market and looked over all the crazy things they were serving we walked just over 2 hours to Tokyo tower pictured below. On route Sinéad stopped by Uniqlo (one just opened in Edinburgh too) and bought some clothes. We had pre booked a tour up the tower but it was very busy still! Lift takes you up at 600 metres a minute. Amazing views from the top though which makes you realise just how big the city is (32 million people making it the biggest city on earth) those were the same views all 360 degrees round! After the tower we went back to a restaurant we had passed and had some fried pork cutlets with rice miso soup and pickles, was tasty and cheap! With 2 glasses of wine each it and food it came to £20. After we had to get 2 trains home which took about an hour and Sinead was nodding off every few mins because of our walk and jet lag combo! Now back in the hotel for an early ish night as long day again tomorrow!Read more

    • TravelerJapan trip
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      Day 3

      Day 3

      May 1 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

      Long day again as just back after being out for 13 hours! Left at 9.30ish and had a nice breakfast at a bakery next door with egg, bacon bread and some miso soup! We then set off to see an amazing digital art show called ‘borderless’ which we had booked. It was a massive centre filled with rooms that were covered in mirrors and lights! Each room had art that moved and changed and had different scents, very cool experience.

      After we had toured each room and spent a good hour or so in there we had a browse around the local mall which was very posh and clean. The food there was amazing and had been arranged orderly and perfect. The fruit was some of the biggest juiciest non blemished fruit I’ve seen. I had the strawberries and they were amazing! Sinead got an Apple the size of a small football! Imagine Harvey Nichols on steroids with all the Japanese responsible for a section each and working like a well oiled machine. We can’t get over how well dressed everyone is here. It’s like being in a fashion shoot with all the designer clothes.

      We then walked around an hour or so to the imperial palace and the weather got nice and sunny. We walked the grounds with their weird shaped trees and I took lots of pics of the amazing nature mixed with the temple buildings and office skyscrapers. From my very brief stint in my failed sustainable urban management course I could really tell just how well the Japanese landscape architect. Everything has some sort of immaculately groomed greenery on it!

      After the palace we walked another hour to the stadium of Tokyo giants baseball game where we saw a great but very long derby game with the Tokyo giants against the Swallows! We were right up in the rafters with a great view so happy to see that! Both got hotdogs with mustard and ketchup and got a beer from the poor girls that run up and down the stairs with a keg of beer strapped to their backs! Sinead cheered on the other team and hers sadly won but it was a close game with a few home runs and lasted over 3.5 hours….

      After the game we left with 30,000 people although the Japanese were great and every single person left at the same time orderly all taking with them all of their rubbish to the bins inside before they left in a line down the stairs! We got the metro back to our zone Shinjuku and had what I think was our best meal yet. We shared some dumplings and gyoza with some kimchi, chicken and beef stir fry! I had something called a ginger highball to drink which was really refreshing. Another 20k+ steps done and now 1am with an early start Tommorow!      Read more

    • TravelerJapan
      Day 4

      Administration

      May 17, 2022 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

      🇨🇵
      Moi en train d'attendre mon tour à la mairie du quartier, pour faire enregistrer mon adresse sur ma "Residence Card" (zairyuu ca-do). Cette carte de résident est la pièce d'identité nécessaire à tout résident à moyen/long terme. Il faut toujours l'avoir sur soi, car au Japon le passeport ne suffit pas en cas de contrôle d'identité.

      En tant que titulaire d'un visa Vacances Travail, on m'a remis ma carte à mon arrivée à l'aéroport de Narita. Cependant celle-ci n'est pas complète : il est impératif d'y enregistrer son adresse au Japon sous 14 jours, et sans cela, certaines démarches sont impossibles (ouverture de compte bancaire au Japon par exemple).

      C'était une petite épreuve en soi car les formulaires sont entièrement en japonais, heureusement j'arrivais à comprendre et à me faire comprendre en japonais, et le staff était très sympathique. Pour les moments les plus complexes, un sauveur est apparu, quelqu'un qui parlait anglais 😂

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      Me, waiting for my turn in the local city hall, as I needed to register my current address on my "Residence Card" (zairyuu ca-do). This card is a mandatory identification document, for medium / long term stay. You always need to carry it with you, as the passport isn't enough in case of identity check.

      As a Working Holiday visa owner, i got mine on my arrival in Narita airport. But in this state, the card is not considered as "complete": you need to register your current address on its back within the first 14 days. Without it, you're not allowed to open a bank account in Japan, for example.

      It was quite a challenge to register my address, as all the papers I needed to fill were in japanese. Thankfully, I was able to understand and speak, and the staff was very kind. During the most complex tasks, a "hero" emerged : someone able to speak english 😂      Read more

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    • TravelerJapan trip
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      Day 3

      Day 4

      May 1 in Japan ⋅ 🌧 12 °C

      Slight change of plan today as we had originally booked to go to Tokyo Disney Sea but unfortunately the weather took a turn for the worse and the rain started early and lasted all day with heavy downpours! Instead we changed our time for Disney and are going tommrow instead. Luckily the rain is only for one day and we are back to mine weather!

      As it was rainy we decided to go to a Japanese shopping outlet to get some designer clothes cheap! We took the metro early and were right in amongst the Japanese work craze! The metro was rammed and we were crammed on like sardines. I tried to capture what it was like but everyone in Japanese metro looks at the floor on silence as no one dares make eye contact and you could hear a pin drop! Not one person chats.

      We took the metro then train for 30
      Mins and both did some shopping. Normally it’s something I hate but I braved going to Levi’s store and got chatting with a young Japanese worker there who had studied a year in Ireland. He told me about their promotion and I ended buying 3 pairs of Levi’s jeans (light blue, navy and black jeans) all for a combined 13,000 yen which is just £70! got a nice shirt from banana republic cheap too and without tax due to the passport! Sinéad got a great Michael Kors bag 75% off! After a long day of shoping we had coffee and food in the mall and headed back as we were a bit wet from getting caught in the rain! Luckily I’m Japan get package your paper bags with plastic covers!

      More rain and we dropped our bags off at the hotel then set out to go to the famous pokemon cafe in Tokyo centre! (Japan created pokemon) unfortunately when we arrived we found out you needed to book in advance and the next 30 days were sold out! However there was a queue for cancellations so we waited in that and we’re lucky to be told we had sometime drop out so come back in an hour! We came back and both had a Gengar (a ghost Pokémon) themed smoothie and enjoyed the pokemon cafe! Was a big nuts but cool too relive some of my childhood playing Pokémon!

      After the cafe we tried to get into a few places (still need to have some sushi and Sinéad wants udon noodles) everything in Tokyo was packed so we were forced to go to a burger place ! Was decent burger and I love the drink I keep ordering (ginger highball ) it’s basically ginger ale and whiskey with lime! Sinead says it’s a copy Jameson ginger ale lime! But delicious! Sinead found a small metal thing on her burger so they have us the drinks on the house!

      After the burger and getting caught in more rain we went to an underground sherry bar in Shinjuku! I went for Japanese whiskey mixed with Pedro Ximenez and bitters! It had a huge Diamond piece ice cube which they carved up with knifes and was delicious! Up very early tomorrow so an early night (12.30am has become early night for us!)      Read more

    • Japan
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      Day 5

      May 21, 2023 in Japan ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C

      Today was Sumo Day!

      We woke up, did a quick load of laundry, then headed to Ryōgoku Kokugikan Sumo Hall for the Sumo tournament. The walk there was super hot (as was the whole day). We were there around noon, so it was still more of the novice wrestlers, but it was super entertaining. Some of the guys are actually pretty fit, while some are XXXXL. When we had our cooking class, she told us they get so fat because they eat a veggie and meat soup and then go to sleep hahaha you can’t tell me they’re not downing McDonalds and bags of chips all day to get the size some of them are haha Ole got a bento box for lunch at the tournament, which is a normal lunch or travel food here filled with a variety of foods. He thought it was tasty!

      We eventually left to walk to Nakamise-dori Street, which was supposed to be a nice street food / souvenir shopping area, but when we got there, the streets were packed. It turns out the Sanja Matsuri Festival was happening. It’s a Buddhist festival, and one of Tokyo’s biggest shrines is in this area. That was something to see. They all had short robes on, and many men didn’t have anything underneath haha

      After making our way around there, we were really craving the big fluffy pancakes you always see on Instagram. We found the chain, Happy Pancake, in Ikebukuro. We had to wait about half and hour, but they were so worth it. They were melt-in-your-mouth good.

      We walked around that area, and ended up in Sunshine City, a huge mall. There are 4 floors of shopping and restaurants - kind of like a more compact Mall of America. Our favorite part? The world’s largest capsule toys arcade, with over 3,000 machines to buy shitty little toys that come in balls. They also had crane games where Ole finally won something…. A horse for Brewski!! He’s going to be so happy haha

      We ended the night with a quick dinner by our hotel, but it was nothing special.

      Steps finished with - 21,429      Read more

    • TravelerJapan
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      Day 2

      Tokyo, day 1

      March 26 in Japan ⋅ 🌧 10 °C

      After a bit of a queue for immigration (and Ed being questioned about his passport... Seemingly linked to the ones that we had stolen in Barcelona) we took some advice and caught the airport limousine (coach) to Shinjuku, the area that we are staying. Most of the journey was underground in a long tunnel! We eventually emerged into the open not far from the station.

      We got off the bus and walked, in the rain, the 15 minutes to our hotel, arriving at around 10.30am. Unfortunately our room was not available and so we left our bags and wandered back to the station area! It seems that almost everyone in Japan owns an umbrella. ☂️☔

      We explored the area for a little bit before stopping at an old pre war building for some food. The restaurant saw us sitting watching the chef cook the food and alongside tempura battered prawns we also had tempura battered vegetables, rice and some odd soupy things (which was tricky to eat with chopsticks!)

      By the time we finished it was still only 12.15 and so we found a bar to have a couple of beers in... Order at your table here! By now it was almost 2 and we were both flagging because of the long flight and sleepless couple of days. Do we walked back to the hotel and had a quick drink whilst the room was finished.

      Eventually, at around 2.30 we had a message to say that the room was ready and so we checked in to our upgraded room.

      We decided to have a nap and set an alarm for 4.30 so that we had time to wake, get showered and head to the 'social' that takes place each night. The alarm went off and it's fair to say that we were confused. Ed said that he'd realised that we'd missed the social 'last night' until I pointed out that he'd only been asleep for just over an hour.

      Anyway, we both had a shower to eat wake us up. Once done we took the lift to the 16th floor for some wine and canapes. This finished just after 6 and as we were both tired we decided to eat some of the room snacks and have an early night ready for the day ahead!      Read more

    • TravelerJapan trip
      Day 5

      Day 5

      May 3 in Japan ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

      Day 5 started with an early rise! Up at 6.15am as we had to get into Disneyland early as we had heard the queues were crazy! We had a mad rush across Tokyo metro to get to our train on time! Tokyo metro is like a whole city underground, in the morning it’s jam packed and you have to weave in and out of people coming from every direction!

      When we got to our stop (45 mins away) we had to get the Disney Monorail! We had tickets to the sea world rather than the main park as didn’t want to deal with the queues! Despite this there was already thousands of people queuing before it opened at 9am so we queued for an hour or so (luckily in the sun) to get in! Thank god we went today and not yesterday!

      Each ride took about 45-hour of queuing which I was told was not bad to my amazement! The feet are in absolute bits today after 4 days straight of 20k steps and standing on my feet all day! Each section of the park had a different rollercoaster theme and country theme! We went to Italy, USA, morroco which I’ve included above! Also the Japanese are great for not inflating prices at tourist spots! Lunch was about £3/4 which would be £50 in the UK!

      We left after getting tired at 4pm! Train back to Tokyo central and then headed across to Shibiyu to see the famous crossing and go to the sky bar we had booked! We nipped into pick up our JR rail pass before so (we’d be travelling on bullet trains next week) Crossing was amazing with people coming from 8 different ways! We tried it ourselves. After this we went up to the skybar to see the view, it involved another queue so the feet were done at this point. More great views from the top and then search for dinner.

      We settled on a Japanese place and had some Korean noodles and a funny frittata like thing! There’s no English on the menus and no body speaks a word so it’s just pot luck half the time! Was delicious though, and got some Japanese beer with it. Metro stop back and it was an early night. Off to Kyoto in the morning via bullet train.      Read more

    • TravelerWELTREISE A+E on the way
      Day 49

      Lagerfeuer am Strand in Nikaho

      May 11 in Japan ⋅ 🌬 20 °C

      Samstag, 11.05.2024
      28.Radltag
      von Tsuruoka bis zum Sandstrand von Nikaho
      73 km,347 hm, 8h55 Gesamtzeit, 5h14 in Bewegung

      Die Nacht war ruhig, viel wärmer wie gestern, ca. 13-15° und Bärenangriff gabs auch keinen.
      Um 7:40 gelangten wir mit unseren Rädern wieder auf die reguläre Straße. Das Meer links von uns gings nach Norden. Es war warm und angenehm.
      Die Streckenführung wurde sehr selektiv, als wir in eine Sandstraße in den Pinienwald einbogen. Die Fahrspuren waren mit den Nadeln gut fest, und es ging rauf und runter wie auf einer Hochschaubahn. Gott sei Dank war der Wald nach einer halben Stunde aus, denn das Fahren auf dem weichen Terrain war doppelt so anstrengend wie auf der Straße.
      In einem kleinen Fischerdorf machten wir Rast auf einem Fußballplätzchen mitten im Dorf. Das war sehr beschaulich, denn außer einer alten Frau, die ihr Fischgeschäft aufsperrte, oder auch nur zusammenräumte und mit einer Nachbarin tratschte, war dort gar nichts los.
      Es ging dann weiter die Bundesstraße, die war etwas anstrengend, aber die japanischen Autofahrer geben auf uns wirklich sehr gut acht.
      In einem kleinen japanischen Supermarkt in einem kleinen Dorf kauften wir Mittagessen und verspeisten dies gleich vor Ort. Gleich gegenüber in einem Garten ging dann plötzlich der Krawall eines Hand-Motorsensen Gerätes los.
      Alex sprang auf, ging zu dem Mann hin und bat ihn, erst in 20 Minuten hier wieder zu mähen. Er hats wirklich gemacht, und als wir alles zusammengepackt hatten, fragte der Gärtner, ob er nun wieder weiterarbeiten kann. Na klar doch!
      Wirklich ur freundlich!
      Weiter gings, und eine Stunde später waren wir dann schon auf der Suche nach einem Schlafplätzchen. Alex heute vorne weg, entdeckte ein altes,verlassenes, sehr desolates Hotel am Strand. Zuerst stand ein Zeltplatz ganz nah am Hotel zur Debatte, dann entdeckte Alex eine Straße, die direkt am Strand in den Pinienwald hineinführte. Ich gleich hinterdrein.
      Viel Müll, sicherlich vom Meer her bis hierher auf die Straße verfrachtet. Wir fanden einen Weg durch die Betonwellenbrecher an einen wunderschönen Sandstrand.
      Und sprangen gleich mal ins eiskalte Nass. Dann saßen wir in der Sonne um uns wieder aufzuwärmen und ich suchte schon mal nach angeschwemmtem Brennholz für unser Lagerfeuer.
      Heut gabs Spagetti mit Oliven und Salat. Alex kocht immer sehr, sehr köstlich!
      Jetzt sitzen wir am Lagerfeuer und ich schreibe. Alex schaut grad nach einem Hotel für unseren Ruhetag in Akita, denn am Montag sollen sintflutartige Regenfälle kommen.
      Wir schlafen heute direkt am Sandstrand. Haben uns auch schlau gemacht ob uns die Flut eh nicht wegschwemmen kann, und schlafen nur mit dem Mesh/Netz.
      So können wir heut Nacht sogar die Sterne betrachten und das Meeresrauschen wird uns in den Schlaf singen.      Read more

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    • TravelerJapan and Alaska
      Day 9

      Aomori Dancers

      April 30 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

      Tonight a dance troupe from Aomori, Japan performed to a full house on the ship. Later they happened to walk by us and graciously posed for a photo. The performance was wonderful, the group danced, played flutes and drums, and sang.Read more

    • Travelerdldolls-ラブドール通路
      Day 183–185

      東京

      May 13 in Japan ⋅ 🌧 20 °C

      今日のラブドールは通常、カスタマイズされたサービスをサポートしているため、より幸せになります。人形のよりパーソナライズされた体験をカスタマイズし、ダッチワイフ目の色、肌の色、カップのサイズ、乳輪の色、爪、開口部など、すべての詳細を選択できます。このセックス人形はあなたとあなたのものであることを忘れないでください。あなたはいつでも最もパーソナライズされた最悪の経験に値するでしょう。以下に説明する基本機能の一部をカスタマイズすることに加えて、さらに一歩進んで完全なカスタマイズを選択できます。

      ​​​​​​​​​​https://www.dldolls.com/brand-b134422.html

      人形との関係を最大限に活用するために、より多くの時間とエネルギーを費やすことをいとわないなら、セックス人形を持つことは非常に興味深いことです。ラブドールと呼ばれ、ダッチワイフの主な「義務」は性的にあなたを喜ばせることであるからといって、寝室の外でロリラブドールと面白いことをすることができないというわけではありません。

      セックス人形はパートナーとして

      あなたのパートナーがもっと喜んで試してくれるなら、あなたの関係や結婚に人形を導入することは、物事をより面白くし、日常の性生活を取り除く恐ろしい方法になる可能性があります。双方が関与している場合、その試みは決して損なわれることはありません。これは快適な新しい経験である可能性があり、最終的には、第三者と新しいことに挑戦することを繰り返したり、さらに一歩前進したりすることを期待するかもしれません。

      ダッチワイフについて不平を言わないでください。あなたを怒らせることはありません。リアルドールは常に性的にあなたを喜ばせてくれます。特別なサポートが必要だと感じる日は、セックス人形はあなたの良いパートナーです。人形を買うことは、いつでもたくさんの楽しみをもたらすことができます。気に入った人形が見つかると良いです。リアルドールと暮らすことで、人形の無限の魅力を感じることができます。      Read more

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    You might also know this place by the following names:

    Nakano-ku, Nakano, 中野区, _Tokyo

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