HOTELS, RESTAURANTS AND DESTINATIONS REVIEWED AT THE SPEED OF TRAVEL
Posted in Japan, Restaurant, Top rated, Top rated restaurants on Okt 23rd, 2009
After dinner the chef laid out his hardware for me. I quickly decided not to mess with him. They serve green tea crème brûlée for dessert – and they get away with it! This Google Maps™ image is here for a simple purpose: Print it out and show the address in Japanese to your cabbie. [...]
Posted in Japan, Picture of the day, Sights/sounds on Nov 17th, 2008
Fresh premium pieces of tuna. Yes they are fresh. If you want to eat sushi that’s any more fresh, you’d better bring a sushi chef to the poop deck of your yacht. Fresh, was the word! Looks yummy, right? These pieces of premium quality tuna were for sale at the Tsukiji fish market. It is [...]
Posted in Japan, Picture of the day, Sights/sounds on Okt 30th, 2008
If it looks somewhat familiar to you, you may have seen the movie ”Memoirs of a Geisha”. A monk walks through a passage of torii gates at the Fushimi Inari shrine just outside of Kyoto. A torii is a traditional Japanese gate commonly found at the entry to a Shinto shrine. It is frequently painted [...]
Posted in Japan, Useful info on Nov 30th, 2007
This is the voucher. Priceless when you come to Japan. One of the most modern Shinkansen trains passing a station. Note that there are many types of these trains – and that the Japan Rail Pass will not be valid on all of them! In Japan trains come and go on time. A normal day, the [...]
Posted in Absolutely necessary, Japan, Useful info on Nov 30th, 2007
Correction: There are a lot of ATMs in Japan, but they a) do not accept foreign credit cards, or b) they do not have information in English available. This is a bigger problem than you might think, as the only thing you will understand is the 0-9 digits – and there are lots and lots [...]