When all our devices started vibrating and ringing because messages, updates and emails arrived, we figured internet was working again. The blogs were suspended for a few days because of that, but updates will follow soon! Today we went to Reiko to meet a few of her English language students and two of their mothers. Each student (2 girls and a boy) made a little presentation for us about Japan. It was quite interesting! The first was about the Tokyo Sky Tree,...

When Dennis came home we went to a steak restaurant we discovered earlier. We had a wonderful meal but a little more expensive than normal. After the great dinner we went to Shibuya (although it rained a little). Today was also the release date of Assassin's Creed Revelations here in Japan, almost 2 weeks later then the rest of the world! Although we already have the Xbox360 version that arrived in the Netherlands, we could not resist and bought the PS3 version a...

Because we were still missing a good cutting knife for meat and vegetables and a good bread knife Michelle decided to go to a good knifes shop. When you surf the internet and you look for "knife" and "Tokyo" most sites direct you to one general place; Kappabashi Market. It is a street named after a Kappa (mythical creature) statue halfway in this street. This street is the street to buy all the things you need when you own a nice restaurant or if you are a chef...

Today we wanted to see if we could find some furniture for our apartment instead of going to Mt. Takao. Fiirst we wanted to go to one of the famous flea markets in Tokyo near Yoyogi park. We did not expect any furniture there, but were just curious of what would be sold there and who knows, maybe we could find something unexpected. While on our way to the subway the bus to Shibuya just arrived in our street. Because we never took the bus before we decided to go...

On certain days in November the Asakusa shrine holds a 'market', called Asakusa Tori no Ichi. That was all we knew, so we didn't know what to expect, but of course we went anyway. As we neared the site, we noticed that policemen were controlling the oncoming crowd and soon we knew that was indeed needed too. With huge amounts of people coming and going, we saw there was a queue and we assumed that was to enter the market. The queue was at least 250 meters long ...