Hotels By City: Cheap Hotels, Hotel Guides & Hotel Blogs

Zojoji Temple & Tokyo Towers

Located adjacent to one another, the enormous Tokyo Tower, taller than the sort-of-similar Eiffel (but because of its improved construction methods, weighing in at half the tonnage) forms counterpoint to the Zojoji Temple, main center for the Buddhist Jodo sect in the Kanto area. Originally built in about 1393, the temple was moved to this location in the 1590s presumably because of the transition during which ...

Electric Town

Akihabara, abbreviated a bit to “Akiba,” is a brightly lit shopping district which rose from the ashes of a region prophylacticly razed following a WWII conflagration in order to buffer the Imperial residence. Thus the “Autumn Leaves Field,” or Akihabara – named for all that was visible on the site then – of today hosts a shopper’s warren, including the Japan Rail station, more properly and fully known as ...