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 […]
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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 […]
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Hohoho Hokkaido 2016 – Day 8: Sapporo / Singapore
[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 […]
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Hohoho Hokkaido 2016 – Day 7: Sapporo / Otaru
[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, […]
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Hohoho Hokkaido 2016 – Day 6: Sounkyo / Sapporo
[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 […]
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Hohoho Hokkaido 2016 – Day 5: Shiretoko / Sounkyo
[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 […]
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Hohoho Hokkaido 2016 – Day 4: Lake Akan / Shiretoko
[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 2016 – 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 […]
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Hohoho Hokkaido 2016 – Day 1 & 2: Singapore / Tokyo / Chitose / Tokachi
[The following post is from the archives of my In Search Of Incredible blog, originally published on 1 January 2017] How It All Began Last year, I had a White Christmas in Hokkaido, Japan. Well, technically, I didn’t spend Christmas Day overseas but my vacation was during the December period and it snowed very heavily, so […]
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Tokyo Raiders 2015 – Day 4 & 5: Tsukiji / Shinjuku / Shibuya / Singapore
[The following post is from the archives of my In Search Of Incredible blog, originally published on 14 May 2016] 13 October 2015, Tuesday It was our last full day in Tokyo today, as we would be flying back to Singapore tomorrow. This morning, we headed to Tsukiji Fish Market to have some fresh sushi for […]
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Tokyo Raiders 2015 – Day 3: Shinjuku / Hiroo / Ikebukuro
[The following post is from the archives of my In Search Of Incredible blog, originally published on 7 May 2016] 12 October 2015, Monday Today, we have quite a few activities planned. But first, we will be heading out for breakfast. The night before, my friend was craving to have some good ramen. Being ever resourceful, […]
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Tokyo Raiders 2015 – Day 2: Lake Kawaguchi / Shinjuku
[The following post is from the archives of my In Search Of Incredible blog, originally published on 21 February 2016] 11 October 2015, Sunday Day 2 of the trip, and we would be spending half the day in Lake Kawaguchi before heading back to Tokyo. For breakfast, we munched on pastries that we bought from the supermarket […]
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Tokyo Raiders 2015 – Day 1: Singapore / Tokyo / Lake Kawaguchi
[The following post is from the archives of my In Search Of Incredible blog, originally published on 31 January 2016] 10 October 2015, Saturday In October 2015, my friend and I decided to make a short getaway to Tokyo, taking advantage of cheap promo airfares by Scoot and American Express. The return air ticket was only S$454.81, […]