23 February 2013, Saturday In the blink of an eye, 10 wonderful days had flown by and I would be returning to Singapore in the evening. As I still had time to spare in the morning, I made a trip to Daikanyama for breakfast and to spend some quality time discovering new music at Tsutaya […]
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22 February 2013, Friday I started my last full day in Tokyo with a visit to Asakusa Kannon Onsen, a historic bath house just three minutes’ walk from my K’s House Tokyo Oasis hostel. It was conveniently located between the Hanayashiki amusement park and Sensoji temple. Established in 1961, Asakusa Kannon Onsen was one of […]
21 February 2013, Thursday It was Day 8 of my trip and I would be heading back to Tokyo today. But before that, I decided to visit an onsen in the morning since Hakone is an area rich with hot springs. After checking out of my lovely Fuji-Hakone Guest House, I took a bus at […]
20 February 2013, Wednesday I had an early start to the day today. After a surprisingly good night’s sleep in my tiny pod, I woke up at 5:30am, packed my things and checked out of my Shinjuku Green capsule hotel an hour later. I then had a quick breakfast at McDonald’s before walking to Shinjuku […]
19 February 2013, Tuesday After a good night’s sleep, I woke up at 7:30am feeling fresh and energised for the day ahead. At 8:45am, I vacated my room at Nikkorisou Backpackers but left my luggage at the lobby because I would first spend the morning exploring the historic shrines at Nikko before heading back to […]
18 February 2013, Monday After spending the past four nights in Tokyo, it was time to head to Nikko, a town about 150km north of the Japanese capital. At 7am, I woke up, did my final packing and checked out of my hostel. I then walked to Asakusa station to catch the Tobu Nikko train. […]
17 February 2013, Sunday Today, acting on my friend MB’s recommendation, I made a day trip to a coastal town called Kamakura and the nearby island of Enoshima, located about an hour south of Tokyo. I had not heard of these two places before so it was great that MB suggested them to me. At […]
16 February 2013, Saturday This morning, I woke up relatively late at 9:15am. At 10am, I left my hostel and took a leisurely walk through Nakamise Shopping Street, just a short distance away from my hostel in Asakusa. I enjoyed looking at the colourful Japanese lanterns and other exquisite souvenir items on sale. They all […]
15 February 2013, Friday This morning, I woke up at 7:30am and had a simple breakfast of toast and coffee at my Sakura Hostel. At 9am, I made my way to my first destination – Ueno. I decided to walk from my hostel in Asakusa to Ueno as I wasn’t in a hurry and I […]
Since COVID-19 isn’t going away anytime soon, that means I won’t be travelling for some time yet. Thus, this is the perfect moment to revisit my older trips that I did not get to blog about in the past. This 2013 trip to Tokyo was a fabulous one. It was my second time to Japan […]
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SOTW Tokyo 2019: Day 4 – Meiji Jingu / Harajuku / Todoroki / Jiyugaoka / Naka-Meguro
Day 4 – 12 February 2019, Tuesday Rise and shine! It’s my last day in Tokyo and I have a full day to roam about before my late flight back home tonight. I wasn’t planning on doing much initially but thanks to my primary school friend MB, I ended up with a packed and fulfilling […]
Day 3 – 11 February 2019, Monday After experiencing the high of Janet Jackson’s State of the World Tour last night, I took it easy today. I managed to wake up early enough to enjoy the two free bread rolls for breakfast. Unlike yesterday’s mostly sunny weather, it was a day of gloomy skies today, […]
Day 2 – 10 February 2019, Sunday I woke up after 9am this morning and lazed in bed for a while before making my way down to take a hot bath. By the time I was done, I had missed the free breakfast bread rolls, which are served until 10am daily. After the cold and […]
How It All Began I wasn’t planning to make a trip to Tokyo this year but when my friend JK told me in late December 2018 that Janet Jackson would be bringing her State Of The World Tour to the Nippon Budokan at Tokyo for two nights in February 2019, I jumped at it. JK […]
[The following post is from the archives of my In Search Of Incredible blog, originally published on 23 April 2017] Day 8 – 14 December 2016, Wednesday Rise and shine, it’s our last day in Hokkaido. We would be departing our hotel at 1:30pm to go to the airport, so we had some free and easy […]
[The following post is from the archives of my In Search Of Incredible blog, originally published on 17 April 2017] Day 7 – 13 December 2016, Tuesday It’s our last full day in Hokkaido today and we spent the first half of the day visiting Otaru, a seaside town about 40km away from Sapporo. At 8:30am, […]
[The following post is from the archives of my In Search Of Incredible blog, originally published on 14 April 2017] Day 6 – 12 December 2016, Monday Today, we woke up to a very chilly morning, -14 degrees Celsius to be precise. Caught the weather forecast on television and it showed that all of Hokkaido was […]
[The following post is from the archives of my In Search Of Incredible blog, originally published on 9 April 2017] Day 5 – 11 December 2016, Sunday This morning, after another splendid breakfast buffet, we reluctantly checked out of the hotel at 8:50am and proceeded to our first sightseeing activity at Shiretoko National Park, which was […]
[The following post is from the archives of my In Search Of Incredible blog, originally published on 5 February 2017] Day 4 – 10 December 2016, Saturday This morning, I woke up at about 6:30am. When I pulled open the curtains, I was greeted by the marvellous view of Lake Akan (阿寒湖) in front of me. […]
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Hohoho Hokkaido Day 3: Tokachi / Kushiro / Lake Akan
[The following post is from the archives of my In Search Of Incredible blog, originally published on 14 January 2017] Day 3 – 9 December 2016, Friday The daily morning call for the tour group was at 7am but as usual, we woke up earlier on our own and went for breakfast at 7am. We like […]