Tokyo day 7 – Kamakura / Odaiba

Day 1&2 / day 3 / day 4 and day 5/6 can be found here.

Kamakura is listed in lots of guidebooks as one of the daytrips one can make from Tokyo. Since I always like to see a little more from a country than just the city i'm located in (even if 2 weeks in Tokyo is not enough to see everything) we decided to make a daytrip to Kamakura. We originally planned to do this on Tuesday, but the weather seemed to be better on Thursday, and with Kamakura having a beach, this is quite essential!

Tokyo day 5&6 - Asakusa / Ueno / Tsukiji / Tokyo Dome

Day 1&2 / day 3 and day 4 can be found here.

Day 5 – Asakusa / Ueno / Tokyo station

Our fourth day in Tokyo started in the morning at the Asakusa area where we visited Kaminarimon gate, walked through the Nakamise shopping area to end up at Senso-ji, which is Tokyo's biggest buddhist temple. At the temple we drew an omikuji, a buddist way of fortunetelling, and luckily for us: we do get fortune. (If not, people are suggested to draw another one, for 100 yen ;)). We walked around for a fair bit in the area of the Senso-ji before we took a detour to get some breakfast. Since there were quite some benches close to the temple, we went to a department store, got some sushi (we wanted to buy some grapes, but since they were 52€ a bunch, we skipped it) and ate it while overlooking the crowds and the buildings.

Tokyo day 4 – Ghibli Museum / Kichijoji / Shimo-Kitazawa / Akihabara

Day 1&2 and day 3 can be found here.

We started this day with a breakfast at Yoshinoya, before walking a little bit to Kanda station in order to get a direct train to Kichijoji, where we visited the Ghibli Museum. Anime is not my thing, but for anime-lovers Ghibli is one of the best studio's around and the museum itself was quite nice, and pretty exclusive as there are only a limited amount of tickets sold each day.

Tokyo day 3 – Meiji-jingu / Harajuku / Yoyogi-koen / Shibuya

Day 1/2 can be found here.

On the second day of our trip to Tokyo we got to know the city a little better, and what a city it is! It's still a pretty weird feeling to walk around in a city among millions of people, being one of the few foreigners and also one of the few out there that doesn't understand a single fuck of 95% of the 'linguistic landscape' (the rest are numbers and the occasional English/Engrish words). Despite that disadvantage it's really great to go with the flow, seeing people living their everyday life and do as the Tokyoites do. In the public transport, in the streets, or in a restaurant facing some bowl of weird food: do as the locals do.

Tokyo day 1&2 – Utrecht – Brussels – Rome – Tokyo

Utrecht – Brussels – Rome – Tokyo seems quite a trip, and I must say, it's quite exhausting. We started out by getting a cab at 5:30 in order to get the train at 6:02. We cannot really rely on the Dutch railways, but although every train was delayed, we arrived in Antwerp at 8:00, so we got out and had some breakfast there before taking the train to Brussel Airport where we had to catch a 12:00 flight to Rome. The first flight wasn't the best I ever had, but there was free beer on board and it arrived on time, so not a big deal. We rushed through Rome's Fiumicino airport to make the transfer to find out the flight to Tokyo had a little delay (it turned out to be an hour when we landed). So, hungry as we were, we bought a sandwich, which unfortunately turned out to be as old as the Colliseum itself.