tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57948722966377935972024-08-29T01:46:39.904+09:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794872296637793597.post-21852190100881325962010-09-30T01:44:00.000+09:002010-09-30T01:44:01.928+09:00

For about two months I have been going on about going to the paper museum, which is relatively close to our flat and, I must admit, it let me down a little... The Paper museum is in Asukayama park, right next to the Kita City Asukayama museum.  I'd read it had two floors, and right enough, it did! It had a couple of models of paper presses, some rather long explanations in Japanese (kanji,

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One of the museums featured in Grutt pass is the Kita City Asukayama Museum, in Asukayama Park (next to Ooji station). You can't miss the park - it's just a lot of green foliage stretching up the way. Some time back we went to Ooji Shrine, which we got to from the other side of the road, and wondered how on earth you got to that park... answer is, you have to take the overhead crossing from the

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Today we finally got our act together and got a Grutt pass!For those of you who haven't heard, Grutt pass (gurutto pasu, in Japanese) is a booklet with tickets and discount vouchers for loads and loads of museums, galleries, even zoos or aquariums... I believe in past years it was for fewer attractions, but with the current Grutt pass you can access 70 venues... Just buy the booklet for 2,000 yen

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One of the things I always thought I really had to do when I came to Japan was get some nice nails... that was until I found out how much they cost!I believe there are machines for having nail designs stamped on your nail somewhere... have not come across them yet (or haven't noticed them), although I feel quite uneasy about sticking my fingers in a machine....Lucky enough there are plenty of

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Ueno zoo is located inside Ueno Park, right by JR Ueno station. Although it wasn't the only place we meant to go it was the only thing we had time to see, 'cause it's absolutely huge! The adult ticket costs 600 yen (although it's free on the 20th of March, 4th of May and 1st of October), but one admission to the zoo is included in the Grutt pass. I really enjoyed the Night forest (夜の森）which was a

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I've actually been in Tokyo for about a month now, and although I'm not usually into writing I figured that there's so many strange and awesome things here that it's worth putting something up on the net... so here's my little corner of weird, random and profound thoughts (and photos) from hot, humid Japan in August :)

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