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We were back in Shinjuku from Mt. Takao at 2PM, and the first order of business was to figure out what was by now an already pretty late lunch. We ducked into a Saboten restaurant at Keio Mall Shinjuku Station,

Mt. Takao was our main place of visitation on Day 07 of our 18 day trip. This mountain is relatively near Tokyo, at just 50km west of the city, and is a frequent half-day trip for residents of the city,

The trains we’d been on during both our previous and this visit to Tokyo had passed by the famous Shibuya Scramble Crossing several times before, but we’d not actually been at the crossing itself until today. It’s indeed quite an

The very masculine display of Sumo prowess observed in the early morning, our next place we checked out was a more feline and feminine (?!) one: the Cat Cafe Mocha located in Shinjuku. However, H did a further check just

Day 06 and we spent the day exploring more places in Tokyo. The amount of walking we’d done in the first five days though – and we’re routinely clocking in around 15,000 steps each day – had started to take

While preparing the itinerary for our trip, the missus was quite insistent that we should plan to stay on Enoshima Island till evening, and specifically to see the Winter Illumination and light-up at the Samuel Cocking Garden. I didn’t know

The Iwaya Caves are a small cave system on the western side of Enoshima Island. We were initially iffy about including the entry fee for this cave when we were picking up the Enoshima Island pass after arrival. But we

The Sea Candle is a lighthouse on the island and located inside the Enoshima Samuel Cocking Garden. Entry into the garden is free until 5PM, after which admission tickets have to be purchased – I assume in part because of

The Samuel Cocking Garden is a short walk from the end of the third escalator, and alongside the Sea Candle – the lighthouse and observation tower in Enoshima – seems to be the central focal point of any visit to

The first three days of our 18 day trip saw fabulous weather: sunny with clear blue skies. The weather became considerably more overcast and cloudy on Day 04 when we’d relocated to Tokyo for the second leg of our itinerary,

During our 2019 visit to Tokyo, we visited just one winter illumination spot in the city. This trip, we made a more conscious effort to find out where the winter illumination light-ups were and populated our evening itinerary with as

Takeshita-dori Street is Tokyo’s center of teen culture and fashion styles. No, we’re not in the target demographic, but since we had this much time on our second visit to Tokyo, we needed itinerary fillers! We reached the area at