With ancient stratums from hundreds of millions or years ago, impressive stalagmites and stalactites, musical water drips, shrines and coloured lighting, the ambience and beauty of the caves really takes you away to a magical place.
Okutama – Ohtama Walking Trail
A day trip to Okutama is my personal recommendation for the perfect way to escape the city and enjoy nature.
Sunshine Aquarium – Ikebukuro, Tokyo
Nearly 40,000 individual fish across 70 or so tanks with a total water volume of 770,000 litres, it is a truly amazing place to visit.
Tsukemen – Dipping Ramen
Tsukemen, meaning “dipping noodles” is a popular style of serving noodles in Japanese cuisine. Usually with ramen, but udon or soba noodles can also be used.
Making Music – A New Approach
I checked that all my software would work with MacOS – Steinberg Cubase, DaVinci Resolve, Office, graphics and other design software. Every box was ticked! Very soon after, I found myself on the website, configuring my new machine.
A short, but slow-feeling two weeks later, I had my MacBook Pro!
Buying a Suica card
For those who don’t know what that is, Suica is an IC card which can be used (among other things) to pay for public transport around Tokyo, and the rest of Japan.
Pedestrians Watch Out! Cyclists About!
I had been putting off writing this post, and truthfully I still feel a bit beside myself while doing so now. For it is my intention that this blog be a positive and informative perspective of a British person living in Japan. Quite frankly, this is not a positive post, but it is (I hope) informative.
Shibuya Scramble – The Famous Crossing
In almost every list of top places to visit in Tokyo, or even Japan as a whole for that matter, I see Shibuya Scramble – The Famous Crossing…
I was in Shibuya recently, not for the crossing but for other business.. So I decided while I was there to check it out and see what all the fuss was about..
Gyudon – The “Fast-Food” of Japan
Gyudon is arguably Japan’s native fast food. Furthermore, quicker than any typical chain fast food place.
Public Transport in Tokyo
I think it is fair to say that the Tokyo metropolitan area has arguably one of the most efficient public transportation systems on the planet.