Musings

8 days done and we’re coming to the midpoint in our 18 day trip. On Day 09 today, we headed to Kawagoe, a town with a rich history — and specifically one that was made prosperous by merchants during the

We headed back in the general direction of Tokyo Station after our visit to Small Worlds, and reached it a short 28 minute bus ride later. We had a couple of hours to kill before the winter illumination along Marunouchi

We hunted down Uomasala, an Indian restaurant in the vicinity, after our visit to TeamLab Planets for an early lunch, and made our way to Small Worlds Tokyo after that. This is an indoor museum — apparently the world’s largest

Our itinerary for Day 08 in Tokyo primarily featured two indoor places to check out; firstly for the morning, TeamLab Planets, an interactive museum that features both digital art and stylish gardens. We’d booked tickets already several weeks ago through

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