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Have you ever seen that much snow in Tokyo ?
Today, Monday, January 14, 2013, little snowstorm on Tokyo! The meteorological agency announces that more than 40 centimeters of snow are expected to fall between 10am this morning and tonight 18h. Quite a lot so ! Especially when you hear people from Tokyo said that it has been years that they have not seen so much snow fall upon the capital! Result: you can see people starting to clear around the streets, Japanese with umbrellas, trying to protect themselves from the snow. Concerning public transportation, trains are apparently slowlier than normal, but not big problems of this side, caution is mostly recommended pedestrian, yes, the sidewalk is very slippery indeed…
The Landmark Tower in Yokohama
The Yokohama Landmark Tower (横浜 ランドマークタワー) was, until this August, the tallest building in Japan, with a height of 296 meters. It was indeed passed by the first ”supertall” skyscraper of Japan, the just finished Abeno Harukas of Osaka and its 300 meters. This not to mention the Tokyo Sky Tree, with its 634 meters, but it is more an antenna than a tower or building … Completed in 1993, the Yokohama Landmark Tower is located in the Yokohama bay, in the futuristic neighbourhood of Minato Mirai 21, the port area of the city with bold architecture, completely rehabilitated. This district, located north of Sakuragi-cho Station, houses a naval museum, the museum of modern art…
The importance of nature in Tokyo
The Japanese have long had a special relation to nature, letting it grow without trying to master it, being scared it could get angry and punish them. Nature is considered as almighty and has to be respected, everything has to cohabit together in peace and harmony, and this is what we can see in Japanese floral arrangements, ikebana, Japanese gardens, bonsais or even cherry blossoms, people pay great attention to their environment. Even in Japanese poesy, haïkus are always related to seasons, animals, which leads us once again to this recurrent idea of nature. This respect is partly due to its Shinto culture, which considers every element is the manifestation…
Swimming and practicing in Ikebukuro
If you had the chance to read my article about The Sunshine 60 observatory in Ikebukuro, you probably ended up wondering what this white windowless huge tower was, and I did the same. Maybe you felt like being in Evangelion’s Tokyo-3 for a second or two, but you’re not, and don’t be worried, nobody lives in this building, growing with no sun, it merely is Toshima garbage factory, and more precisely, the incinerator’s chimney. If you find the opportunity to pass by during the night, the red lights on its wall, used as aerial signals, create a very uncommon ambiance all over the place. Maybe you think it’s not worth…
Some pure fun for a Sunday
Two days ago, I told you about events in Yoyogi, but If you get to Yoyogi Koen on a Sunday and from the Harajuku station, there’s a high chance you see crazy rock-styled peopleright in front of the entrance of the park, pompadour haircuts, leather jackets, tattoos, you kno who they are, they are Tokyo’s very famous rockabillies. I remember that in 2010, I didn’t get the chance to see them, but my friend did and told me about them afterwards, more than too years later, even when the heat burns your whole body, they’re still here to play the show, definitely a must-see in Tokyo ! Well, to be…
Calm and relaxation at the Sakura onsen
Today I will tell you more about my first onsen experience, because as you know, I’ve been here for more than four months now, and if I get back to France saying I didn’t even try, people will just stone me. The thing is that my boss recently told me about this one very famous onsen located less than 6 minutes sharp from my place, making it harder to avoid the trying, so it’s this morning I went to bathe in a few different hot springs at the Sakura onsen in Sugamo. I took the pictures yesterday night, so don’t think I’m trying to trick you, I would never do…
Yoyogi Park’s lively weekends
Tokyo finally managed to make me like Sundays again, that’s a fact, back in France, the Sunday is the day you just rest a lot because you partied and drank a little bit too much the day before, anyway, all the shops are closed, there’s nobody in the streets except the few depressed drunk people wandering here like zombies. Well, maybe it’s not exactly like this where you live, but this really is where I do, and I can tell you here is much different, first of all, and you know it, pretty much all the shops are open so we don’t even really notice we’re on a Sunday, and…
Kasuga’s Kodokan dojo
Considering Teddy Riner’s late victory during the Olympics, I had to write an article about Judo in Tokyo, on this occasion, I chose to write about one very famous dojo, established in 1882 by Jigoro Kano, the founder of Judo, the Kodokan. Well, the very bad news is I was expecting to post some pictures of karatekas struggling hard to illustrate the article, but when I showed up there, I realized the dojo was closed and this for 5 days, so you’ll merely have a few pictures of the empty premises, and I’m very sorry about that, I got very unlucky on this one. The dojo was called Ko-do-kan, literally…
In search of some rest along the water ?
Not this long ago, I wrote a short review of Yokohama Chinatown, located in the Motomachi-Chukahai district, but as you know, it’s not quite close from Tokyo itself, and if you go there, you might want to explore it in depth before heading back to the huge metropolis, if so, you’ll have to thank me once again, because I wrote this article just for you. Just to say, I truly understand, and with the amazing weather we’ve had these past couple of days (it’s raining while I’m writing this but the weather was barely standable this past few days, too hot and humid), you’ll be happy to find a green…
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