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About tokyofox

A Leicester City fan teaching English in Japan

England 2014 Pt IV: ‘Bond In Motion’ Exhibition

Posted on August 24, 2014 by tokyofox

One of the things I really wanted to do whilst I was back in the nations capital was to visit this exhibition at London Film Museum in Covent Garden. With no-one else interested in going with me it was just … Continue reading →

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England 2014 Pt III: Back To My Hometown

Posted on August 21, 2014 by tokyofox

Tickets to Madame Tussauds weren’t the only discounted tickets I bought ahead of our England venture as I also purchased some heavily reduced train tickets to take us from London St Pancras to my hometown of Market Harborough and back … Continue reading →

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England 2014 Pt II: My 1st Time at Madame Tussaud’s Waxwork Museum

Posted on August 18, 2014 by tokyofox

One of the things that my mother-in-law wanted to do in London was to visit this very famous and hugely popular waxworks museum. I have to say that I’d never had too much enthusiasm for going to this place which … Continue reading →

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England 2014 Pt I: When Two World’s Collide!

Posted on August 15, 2014 by tokyofox

Our final day in England last year included many of the same ingredients as the first one this year but was very different in so many ways. The reason was that it was the first time for my wife’s parents … Continue reading →

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TF Top 10……Movie Locations Where You Can Stay

Posted on August 13, 2014 by tokyofox

Hot on the tail of the top (double oh) 7 hotels featured in James Bond films here are the Tokyo Fox top 10 recommendations for other places where you can spend a night amidst movie history. Just to get things clear you have to … Continue reading →

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Review: Films Set In Japan – Rhapsody In August (1991)

Posted on August 9, 2014 by tokyofox

On August 9th 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki and over 40,000 people were instantly killed including (as far as this film story is concerned) the husband and a few siblings of a woman who is now the grandmother … Continue reading →

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TF Top 5……Prague Filming Locations

Posted on August 6, 2014 by tokyofox

Thanks to the 1989 Velvet Revolution that freed the Czechs from communism the city has come on in leaps and bounds to become a very popular destination for visitors from all over the world including the lowest of the low; British … Continue reading →

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Review: Films Set In Japan – Godzilla (2014)

Posted on August 3, 2014 by tokyofox

Despite all the recent Godzilla features and movie location stuff on Tokyo Fox I didn’t actually realise that this Gareth Edwards directed version was set in Japan (in part) until I saw it at the cinema the other day. I just … Continue reading →

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TF Top 10……Pepsi Japan Flavours

Posted on July 30, 2014 by tokyofox

Following last weeks exhausting 83km bicycle ride amid temperatures reaching 34 degrees celsius I treated myself once back at home to a can of Cherry Coke which a student had given me a few days earlier. It took me back down memory … Continue reading →

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Cycling The Godzilla Tokyo Trail…In One Day!

Posted on July 26, 2014 by tokyofox

Following on from my Wolverine cycling trip, and with not too many other themed cycling ideas coming forth, I began to think about other filming location based rides. There was a clear winner which stamped all over the rest like no … Continue reading →

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