For our last day of visit in Japan before leaving the next day, we decided to be heading once again to Tokyo. We spent the morning in Asakusa, which is a neighborhood in the north-eastern part of the city. First we wandered in Kappabashi-dori, the food supply street in Tokyo, where you can find many kitchenware shops. We also discovered there a very typical shop that you can not see anywhere else : plastic food manufacturer. Fake food samples appear prevale...

During our stay in Japan, we took the metro very often, especially in Tokyo. It is very convenient, fast and safe. It is also very easy to use - we never got lost ! Everything is very well indicated, and all stations names or destinations are written both in japanese characters and romanji. In most of japanese cities, there are several metro companies - JR and private ones. Therefore you have to buy different kinds of tickets depending on the company you a...

It was a sunny and hot day, therefore we decided to go and visit Tokyo. Moreover, we were right in the middle of the golden week, and everything should be open to please the huge amounts of tourists visiting Tokyo. We first headed to the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT) which is very close to the Imperial Palace. Indeed we saw on their website that a special exhibition called "Where is Architecture ?" seemed very interesting. When we arrived at...

After the Karaoke night the day before, we woke up late today ! We had a delicious brunch and then drove to Tokyo with N&A. We parked the car near Shin-kiba, which is a neighborhood close to Ageha club where we would spend the night... We took the metro there to Harajuku station. We could see yoyogi gymnasium, but we didn't go close to it as we would come back later on. Instead, we walked to Meiji Jingu shrine and park. It had been a long time since we ...

3 am. Time to go to bed ? It could be so on regular vacation. But today, it was the time when we woke up! Why so early ? Because we wanted to go and have a look at Tsukiji Market. Best known in English as the "Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market", Tsukiji Market is the biggest wholesale fish and seafood market in the world and also one of the largest wholesale food markets of any kind. The market opened at 5am in Tokyo, so we had to leave Tsukuba at ...