Category Archives: Japan Travel

Tokyo Daytripper: Ichikawa Zoo

Posted on August 7, 2013 by tokyofox

I’ve been on the lookout for things to do along the Sobu Line for a while now and when I came across a video on YouTube the other week about some cute otters at Ichikawa Zoo that place was planted … Continue reading →

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Tokyo Daytripper: Top 10 Kanagawa Sights

Posted on July 29, 2013 by tokyofox

Of Tokyo’s three surrounding prefectures it’s fair to say that Kanagawa offers some of the better attractions for day trips from the capital and so this list was certainly easier to compile than the Top 10 Saitama Sights and the Top 10 Chiba Sights. However, … Continue reading →

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Gunkanjima In Skyfall: Real Or Fake?

Posted on June 17, 2013 by tokyofox

In the 2012 movie ‘Skyfall’, James Bond (Daniel Craig) is seen cruising on a boat (below) with the exotic-looking Sévérine (Bérénice Marlohe) to an abandoned island. Bond is taken prisoner by the crew and delivered to the antagonist Raoul Silva, who is a … Continue reading →

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Tokyo Daytripper: The Yokohama Temple Which Featured In A Manic Street Preachers Video

Posted on June 14, 2013 by tokyofox

I was absolutely delighted to visit this tranquil, little temple in Yokohama recently and that was of course mainly down to the fact that it once featured in a Manic Street Preachers video (read about that here) back in the early … Continue reading →

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Hiroshima 2013 Pt III: Peace Memorial Park & Museum

Posted on May 15, 2013 by tokyofox

The atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima at 8:15am on August 6th, 1945. It was the first dropping of its kind in world history during combat and it wiped out nearly a third of the city’s population. … Continue reading →

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Hiroshima 2013 Pt II: Iwakuni

Posted on May 12, 2013 by tokyofox

Whilst in Hiroshima I wanted to see a different part to what I had seen back in December 2005. Of course I was always going to visit Miyajima and the Peace Memorial Park/A-Bomb Dome but as there was another day … Continue reading →

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Hiroshima 2013 Pt I: Miyajima

Posted on May 9, 2013 by tokyofox

Having arrived back from Vietnam early morning we returned home for a few hours before leaving mid afternoon on the Shinkansen (only my second time to ride on the bullet train) heading 500 miles west to Hiroshima. This wasn’t actually … Continue reading →

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Cycling To Tsukuda And Back (Almost!)

Posted on February 18, 2013 by tokyofox

On a bitterly cold and extremely windy February morning it would have been so easy for me to just take the Yurakucho line directly all the way to Tsukishima station but having the bicycle gives me the freedom to roam … Continue reading →

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Tokyo Daytripper: Tora-san Meets Me In Shibamata!

Posted on February 10, 2013 by tokyofox

I’d never heard of this place until I saw it mentioned in one of my film travel books a couple of years back. Little did I know that it was just down the road from Kanamachi on the Tokyo/Chiba border … Continue reading →

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Tokyo Daytripper: Tackling Takao From The Bottom

Posted on November 25, 2012 by tokyofox

Since climbing Mount Fuji five years ago I have had the idea in mind to climb the 3776m mountain from the very bottom rather than the fifth station which is located about half way up. However, with a limited climbing … Continue reading →

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