Inokashira Park 井の頭恩賜公園

Inokashira Park 井の頭恩賜公園

Inokashira Park is a located right outside the Inokashirakoen station. It's a beautiful park to walk through, lined with plenty of cherry trees to make it a popular place during cherry blossom season. There's a beautiful pond you can walk around that leads to a small zoo or where you can rent boats to take [...]

Ginza West Aoyama Garden

Ginza West Aoyama Garden

Ginza West is a  company with a couple different stores that sell a variety of treats. This one is known for it's tea room that serves giant pancakes. Opening at 11am the tea room has 52 available seats inside along with a terrace with about 16 seats. I mention this because it can get crowded [...]

Tokyo Disneyland

Tokyo Disneyland

I arrived at Disneyland in not the best "happiest place on earth" mood. Getting there had been a pain, mostly because I hadn't fully understood the Shinkasen/how transfers would work out. This meant I didn't get there until the afternoon which wasn't what I had planned. Plus I was lugging my suitcase with me. So [...]

Budget shops in Tokyo

Budget shops in Tokyo

I spent about a week in Tokyo visiting friends. I was able to stay with a friend in their old fashioned tatami mat styled apartment outside of Tokyo. While I spent a disproportiante amount of time in Shibuya compared to anywhere else I had a lot more fun this time then last year. To get home I [...]

Tokyu Hands

Tokyu Hands

After having lunch at the Alice Restaurant I didn't have much else planned.  It had been suggested to visit Tokyu Hands for souvenirs, so I thought I'd give it a try. Tokyu Hands has a bit of everything, but also special hand made things that were somewhat cheap. I went to the one in Shibuya which was huge. [...]

舞踏の国のアリス Alice’s Fantasy Restaurant

舞踏の国のアリス Alice’s Fantasy Restaurant

My friend and I stumbled upon this restaurant while she was showing me her favorite spots in Shibuya. We thought it'd be a nice place to relax and for me to get something to drink. However they have a policy that every person must order food and a drink in order to stay and since [...]

Meguro Parasitological Museum 目黒寄生虫館

Meguro Parasitological Museum 目黒寄生虫館

Warning parsites and possibly upsetting parasite pictures ahead. In Meguro there is a free museum of parasites. It opens at 10 and stays open until 5pm on all days but Mondays or Tuesdays when it's closed. My friend and I thought it'd be fun to check out, especially since it's free. The first floor is suppose [...]

Kaisen Donya 廻船呑屋 目黒西口店

Kaisen Donya 廻船呑屋 目黒西口店

While in Tokyo another friend also happened to be traveling around Japan and in Tokyo so we met up for the day to catch up. We started off having lunch at Kaisen Donya, a small restaurant that had tons of lunch sets and a ton of business men smoking heavily beside us. We had decided [...]

Pie Face パイフェス 渋谷モディショップ

Pie Face  パイフェス 渋谷モディショップ

Pie Face is a pie shop in Shibuya. They're a cute little shop that sells all sorts of tiny pies that they decorate with faces, from savory curry pies to sweet choco pies. They also serve drinks like the best Chai lattes I had while in Tokyo. I ended up getting a choco pie and chai [...]

Pokemon Center Sunshine City

Pokemon Center Sunshine City

One of the things I've been wanting to do is check out a Pokemon Center in Japan. My friend had some other friends visiting so the four of us met in Ikebukoro station near the owl statue before braving the heat and the packed streets to go to the Sunshine City mall. Since one of [...]