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Witness the Emperor's Address in Japan
Created on June 15, 2009 by Mark Yeow, WriterFoggy days are nicer when you’re abroad. At home you would want nothing more then to stay in bed,especially the day after New Years, but when you’ve only got a few days left of exploration, you practically leap from your tatami-mat and burst through your rice-paper doors. In this case, however, the locals are doing so too. January 2nd is, for Japan, the day when the Emperor speaks. After celebrating the New Year with throngs of Japanese locals just a few hours before, I decided to head over to the Imperial Palace for the Emperor’s address. The Palace is smack bang in the centre of Tokyo, situated on the site of old Edo Castle, where the chief shogun of Japan once resided. The place was ...
Auspicious Beginnings on New Years Eve at Sensoji
Created on May 29, 2009 by Mark Yeow, WriterJammed up against suit-clad salarymen on all sides, I barely had room to breathe. A signal went off somewhere in front of me and we shuffled forward, pushing and shoving – politely, of course, this is Japan after all – towards our goal. Except this is not a metro station at peak hour. This is Nakamise-dori, the aisle of shops stretching up to Tokyo’s biggest Shinto shrine, Sensoji, and in a few hours it’ll be Japan’s New Year. It was relatively quiet in the afternoon. The usual hubbub of tourists flowed in and out of Sensoji, the monumental Shinto shrine, built almost one and a half millennia ago it is Japan's oldest temple. Nakamise-dori echoed with the chatter of food-sellers and souvenir-peddlers, and from time ...
Climb the Eiffel Tower; The Trendsetter of Tall
Created on May 28, 2009 by Mark Yeow, WriterClimbing the Eiffel Tower, one the great charms of Paris, is a leisure best enjoyed in the spring. If, however, circumstances conspire in such a way that you end up in Paris’ 7th arrondissement between June and August, craning your neck at the confabulation of steel lace that stretches upward to its apex in the sky, it is a pleasure not to be refused. Climbing the Eiffel Tower is a difficult task even without the cloying heat of the summer months. Despite what seem like insurmountable obstacles and annoyances of a tireless stop along the Parisian tour route, the Eiffel Tower will not only raise your range of vision, but send your senses soaring. Built in just over two years for the Paris Exposition of ...
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