Tokyo sightseeing

Saturday 8/8:
Ok, time to finish this blog. Can’t stop now when I am so close to the finish line. Here we go, short and sweet.
It was Tokyo sightseeing day, and I was the guide. Having lived here for a year, I felt pretty competent and up for the task. Doing all of Tokyo was of [...]

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Asakusa Hanabi

Saturday 25/7:
It was summer in Japan, and hanabi season, so this weekend it was time for yet another firework festival. This time together with YSEP friends, Yuka and friends of hers that lived in Asakusa.
Asakusa hanabi are on of the biggest firework festivals in Japan, and I read in the paper the day after that [...]

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Tokyo DisneySea

Note:
As maybe some of you have noticed it has been a while since I last wrote in this blog. This is because I had a pretty busy last month in Japan, and then some pretty busy weeks settling inn back in Norway. That’s right, I am no longer in Japan and I am missing the [...]

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More dating in Japan, Sunshine City and the drinking club

Sunday 21/6:
Sunday we were supposed to play basketball with Kojiro’s drinking/basketball club friends (more about that later). But because of rain it was cancelled, and we ended up going to Ikebukuro on Yamanoto line (the one circling the city).
The date started out with some Korean food, which I love, and Kojiro not so much (it’s [...]

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Ghibli museum again

Sunday 7/6:
Sunday I ended up going to Ghibli museum again, together with some YSEP students, Japanese friends and Kojiro.
You are of course allowed to take pictures outside the museum, even if you can’t take them inside, and since the wheatear was actually nice this time I got a lot of nice pictures. There is for [...]

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Some more partying in Tokyo, izakaya style

Thursday 2/4 –  Friday 3/4:
Wrapping up the rest of the week with the Norwegians I went on Korean barbeque with them Thursday. We were supposed to go to an Ninja restaurant, but since it was a Ninja restaurant it was a hidden restaurant and.. yeah we didn’t find it.
After that I managed to find a [...]

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Asakusa, Roppongi and partying in Tokyo

Sunday 29/3 – Tuesday 31/3:
After Harajuku we went to Asakusa to look around for the crazy ice-cream shop I had been recommended. We didn’t find it but we did find the recommended revolving conveyor belt sushi place, or kaiten sushi.
It had a crazy cue, but we ended up going anyway, just in case we didn’t [...]

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More visitors from Norway, Harajuku, Meiji Shrine and Yoyogi Park

Saturday 28/3 – Sunday 29/3:
Saturday was the start of a really busy week again, whit more visitors from Norway, this time the third grade computer science class from my school back home in Norway and friends I have there.
I met Mia, a fellow Japan fan and the same day that she and her class arrived [...]

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Hanami and Ueno Park

Saturday 28/3:
Ok, again I am terribly behind on updating my blog, almost two months behind actually. Wow, time passes by fast! I don’t even want to think about how little time I have left in Japan : (
So anyway, I will need to be efficient if I am gone catch up on my writing. That [...]

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Shinjuku by night

Tuesday 10/3:
Later that day when Anja got to go to Asakusa, Mette was feeling better, and since it was our last day in Tokyo, we headed out again for some more sightseeing, this time to Shinjuku.
Shinjuku can be parted into east Shinjuku and west Shinjuku, and the two parts are as night and day, literally! [...]

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