Japan 2004 Archives

The Edo-Tokyo Museum: The 400-Year History of Tokyo

The Edo-Tokyo Museum (江戸東京博物館) is a museum about the 400-year history of the city of Edo-Tokyo since Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu

Since I’ve never been to Paris to see the Eiffel Tower I had to go to the Tokyo Tower which

The reason for my trip to Odaiba – besides riding the Yurikamome – was a visit to the Miraikan (未来館).

This isn’t a post about the Apple Store in Ginza, I’ve covered it in an earlier post. Walking around Akihabara,

Kamakura isn’t only full of temples and shrines, but the city also has a long beach. It’s on one end

One store on my list for Japan was Super Potato in Akihabara. Super Potato (website) is a retro games store

In the evening I went to the Apple Store Ginza. Germany doesn’t have an Apple Store yet so it was

Sometimes I do travel without a fixed plan, just looking at the train/subway map and asking myself “I wonder what’s

I actually went to Akihabara more than once during this trip. Akihabara is also known as Electric Town and is

Germany has its share of Chinese restaurants, but there is no China Town. One of the biggest China Towns of

Odaiba is an artificial island that’s part of Tokyo – and it was also part of my school curriculum back