A blog about Tokyo, traveling and yes, penguins
Naoshima is known as the “art island” and has several art museums with exhibits by various well-known artists. The island is also well prepared for tourists with a shuttle bus connecting the various art sites and the port.
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A visit to the Mokin Museum in Insadong, Seoul is the perfect complement to the Chicken Art Museum. Mokins are wooden figures used to decorate funeral carriages.
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My favourite shopping spree grounds are Shimokitazawa and Harajuku and today I travelled to the latter. But first I ate at the Mominoki House which is a “food concept store”.
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When you have very little time, you tend to choose places where you can do multiple things. Today I went to the Olympic Park, the park around the main site of the 1988 Summer Olympics. I took a different route and arrived at the SOMA (map) first, the Seoul Olympic Museum of Arts.
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A classmate of mine told me about the Tokyo Designer’s Week (TDW) which is held at some main locations and various galleries.
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Must be modern art week – after Thomas talked (quite enthusiastic) about a modern art exhibition in Rendsburg, I decided
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After clearing the shoes of any sand that might be left in them from yesterday’s trip, it was time for the annual visit to the Sandworld. Unlike the Iceworld, the Sandworld seems to be popular enough for Lübeck.
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Design Festa 25 time! I got four free tickets from the household agency so obviously I had to go. I met with Kelly and Kevin at Shinagawa to take the Yurikamome line to the Tokyo Big Sight, the famous inverted-pyramid-event-hall.
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There are hardly any people who ring the doorbell and the bell has an awful sound. So I’m always shocked when I hear my doorbell and today it was not the postman: It was someone from the local police
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Originally we thought about driving to Berlin but I had to finish a few articles so we decided on the Hamburger Kunsthalle instead, an art museum situated near Hamburg’s central station.
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