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Tokyo Daytripper: Top 10 Day Trips Beyond Kanagawa, Saitama & Chiba

Posted on April 25, 2014 by tokyofox

Unlike the surrounding area’s of Saitama, Kanagawa and Chiba, these day trips from Tokyo are proper full-on journeys and do include a fair bit of travel but with an early start they are all very do-able within daylight hours. However, when … Continue reading →

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Tokyo Daytripper: Ian Stringer Special!

Posted on February 26, 2014 by tokyofox

Imagine leaving your familiar surroundings of home to visit a country where you’re slightly consumed with uncertainty and having a radio fanboy constantly asking you questions about players you’ve interviewed or people you work with. Well that was the case … Continue reading →

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Tokyo Daytripper: Hitachi Seaside Park, Ibaraki

Posted on October 20, 2013 by tokyofox

Whilst skimming my way through the latest articles on the excellent RocketNews24 website last month, one particular story stuck out under their typically over-long subject headers: ‘Do Not Adjust Your Monitor – Hitachi Seaside Park Really Looks Like This‘. It … Continue reading →

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TF Flashback: The 3rd Tallest Statue In The World Is Actually In Japan (2004)

Posted on September 14, 2013 by tokyofox

I had pretty much forgotten about this place until I heard it mentioned a couple of weeks ago in the ‘Factoids’ segment on Steve Wright’s BBC Radio 2 show. Listeners were told that the three tallest statues are all Buddha … Continue reading →

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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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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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Tokyo Daytripper: Jougan-ji a.k.a. The ‘Lost In Translation’ Temple

Posted on March 16, 2013 by tokyofox

When I first compiled the filming locations for ‘Lost In Translation‘ (2003) four years ago (and subsequently updated them in 2011) there was already much written about the Park Hyatt Hotel, Shibuya crossing and the karaoke room which Bob (Bill … Continue reading →

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Tokyo Daytripper: Tama Dobutsukoen Zoo

Posted on March 13, 2013 by tokyofox

Having been on my list of places to visit for about seven years I finally made it to Tama Dobutsukoen zoo last Sunday. I have to admit that I did make it to the entrance gates back in 2010 when … Continue reading →

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Tokyo Daytripper: Top 10 Saitama Sights

Posted on February 24, 2013 by tokyofox

Some Tokyo-ites like to refer to this prefecture as dasaitama (“uncool-tama”) and they’re probably right….to an extent, but thats certainly not to say that it doesn’t have its share of sights which can make for a pleasant day trip from Tokyo. As … Continue reading →

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