by Colin | Dec 9, 2017 | Blog, Food, Travel
Railway Museum Located at Saitama, the home of Crayon Shin Chan and also the name of One Punch Man. Like Yokohama, you’ll have to get on a train and it is about 30 minutes out of Tokyo. I actually like these kind of museums. You can see how the trains evolved...
by Colin | Dec 2, 2017 | Blog, Food, Travel
Snoopy Museum Over at Roppongi is the Snoopy Museum. They have a special exhibition with different themes every 4 to 5 months. When I was there, the theme was “Love is Wonderful” Within the exhibition, different sections were displaying situations about...
by Colin | Nov 25, 2017 | Blog, Food, Travel
Shibuya (渋谷) Finally, THE junction that almost everyone talks about. And that’s it, just a junction in Tokyo. A trip to Shibuya wouldn’t be complete without visiting the Hachiko statue. Tower Record still exists and the Mcdonald’s burger look much...
by Colin | Nov 18, 2017 | Blog, Food, Travel
Yonekyu Honten (米久本店) After my shopping spree (if you can even call it that) at Kappabashi, I walked to this sukiyaki restaurant. Its supposed to be over a 100 years old. The lady would do everything for you in the beginning, laying the fat, vegetables and beef. After...
by Colin | Nov 11, 2017 | Blog, Food, Travel
The next day I checked out of the capsule hotel and walked to my next accommodation… Sunroute Plaza Shinjuku I got a cheaper room, the single bed version. Definitely not much space for you to open your luggage, luckily I only have a Cabin Zero backpack. So its...
by Colin | Nov 4, 2017 | Blog, Food, Travel
So I decided to go to Tokyo on my own. No plan, no preparation except some reading up on places I might want to visit. Here’s what happened during my 10 day trip to Tokyo. I landed at Narita Airport and I had no idea how to get to Shinjuku. I just followed a...