Experiences labelled with 'tokyo'
Foggy 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 ...
A trip to the Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo is a defining experience, and often a thought-provoking one. It is a hub for fish and sea life deliveries from all over the world, and the place to get the freshest sushi in Tokyo. Watching rubber-booted fishermen with deft hands fillet, slice and clean fish of every variety, as well as sea urchins, eels, shellfish, and pretty much anything imaginable, is an intriguing sight. As you make your way around buckets and trays full of live sea life, this is not a place for the squeamish, or the vegetarian. The Tsukiji Fish Market's crowning glory, as well as its bitter shame (depending on who you talk to) is the fresh tuna fish auction early in the ...
