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Thursday, February 8th, 2007

Important things to know about food and money when visiting TOKYO!!


1) Bring money! Some restaurants and shops only accept cash and even a few places that accept credit cards only accept Japanese credit cards. Cash is good, but you'll get a better exchange rate if you carry travelers checks. I always recommend exchanging at least half of the money you're going to spend at the exchange counter at Narita airport. Otherwise it's sometimes hard to find exchange places around the ...

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

IKEBUKORO GYOZA SHOPS.


In Tokyo,whether you are resident or tourists there are various Japanese native

foods and theme park is fameous.The attraction of theme park is we have the opp

ortunity to taste many kinds of foods in place.Head to,Ikebukoro gyoza shops,conveniently located at the heart of Tokyo.

Here,over 15 gyoza shops are ready to serve you without delay.Apart from gyoza,beer

and juice are available.Prices ranges from 450yen to 600yen.

Nerest station:JR Ikebukoro.

Address:3-1-3,Higashi ikebukoro,

sunshine city.World import-mart 2F,

Namco namja-town.

Telephone:03-5950-0765.

Open:10am-10pm.(daily)

Addmision:300yen ...

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

Tokyo Attractions - Zojoji Temple & Tokyo Towers


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 ...

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

Tokyo Shopping - Electric Town / Akihabara


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 ...