Category Archives: Action & Adventure

Hakuba Revisited For A Weekend Of Snowboarding

Posted on March 15, 2008 by tokyofox

My mate Ethan and I made our way to Hakuba in Nagano at the end of February for our annual (if two consecutive years can be considered annual!) snowboarding trip. Pretty much identical to last years really and that certainly … Continue reading →

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Wakeboarding In The City

Posted on October 1, 2007 by tokyofox

Move over Jack Osbourne because there’s a new adrenalin junkie in town and its me!! A couple of weeks ago it was bungy jumping and on September 23rd it was wake-boarding on the Edo River near Ichikawa on the Tokyo-Chiba border. For the … Continue reading →

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Tokyo Daytripper: Big Weekender Pt III – Yomiuriland & Bungy Jump #4

Posted on September 24, 2007 by tokyofox

I hooked up again with Ethan on Sunday 16th September to complete my big weekend of activities. This time it was Yomiuriland and getting from the train station to the amusement park was interesting in itself as we had to take a cable car … Continue reading →

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Tokyo Daytripper: Big Weekender Pt II – Mount Takao

Posted on September 20, 2007 by tokyofox

When a colleague asked me a fortnight ago if I wanted to go up Mount Takao for a nomihodai (all-you-can-drink) session I didn’t think too much of it but as the morning of the event neared last Saturday I began to think that … Continue reading →

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Tokyo Daytripper: Big Weekender Pt I – Tokyo Summerland

Posted on September 18, 2007 by tokyofox

My days off are Friday and Sunday but last weekend I also had the Saturday off resulting in a busy few days of activity. Starting very early on Friday morning myself and Ethan made our way to Tokyo Summerland which is … Continue reading →

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Tokyo Daytripper: The Old-Fashioned Amusement Park In Northern Tokyo

Posted on September 4, 2007 by tokyofox

On Friday the 24th of August I went to Toshimaen Amusement Park which is a 15 minute train ride away from where I live. Sadly we didn’t have so long there as we only got there at 2pm and it was also quite mild … Continue reading →

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Climbing Mount Fuji

Posted on August 6, 2007 by tokyofox

After a hard days graft on Saturday 28th July most workers would maybe wind down for a couple of hours before painting the town red. Not for myself, school manager Shinobu, colleague Mark and his friend Joey who decided to ignore every … Continue reading →

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Climbing To New Heights In Kokubunji

Posted on April 21, 2007 by tokyofox

It must have been over 15 years since I last did some proper rock climbing but that drought ended last Sunday when I went to ‘Run Out’ which is in Nishi Kokobunji. I didn’t really know what to expect as I’d … Continue reading →

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It’Snow Problem Having A Good Time In Hakuba

Posted on February 27, 2007 by tokyofox

Woke up a bit stiff on Monday morning and with a little pain in my a*se too……and that can only be because I spent a long weekend on the slopes of Hakuba 47 and Hakuba Goryu. An all night bus took myself … Continue reading →

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Tokyo Daytripper: Kamakura (2006)

Posted on November 13, 2006 by tokyofox

Never did I really think that I would go back to Kamakura so soon after my first visit in the summer of 2004 with my sisters. It’s not because I thought it was bad but just because I didn’t think … Continue reading →

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