Sengawa Yukemuri no Sato is a day onsen near Chofu. It’s a very typical family-orientated onsen with a good mix of baths tubs, a restaurant serving ramen and other dinner sets for ¥800-900, and other services such as a massage…
If you are living in or visiting Tokyo you may at some point need to use the Shuto Expressway (首都高) or “Capital Expressway”, a network of roads that fly over the traffic on stilts or race under it through a…
A couple of months having gone by with my motorbike sitting unused I was feeling guilty, and with the weekend a little cooler after the humidity of August I was tempted out. I decided to aim for Mount Nokogiri in…
Mount Nokogiri is a low mountain on the west side of Chiba’s Boso Peninsula. It was the site of heavy quarrying during the Edo period which left it with a uniquely jagged profile and gave the mountain its name (nokogiri…
Omiya Bonsai Village is a small bonsai nursery precinct in Bonsaicho in Saitama started by a group of professional bonsai gardeners in Tokyo during the 1920s. Spurred on by the destruction wrought on the capital by the 1923 Great Kanto…
Signing up for a tour of the Imperial Palace is one of those things that I had been meaning to do for a long time, but figured I could do anytime so never actually bothered to register. For those not…
If you’re looking for something a little different to do one evening, why not try your luck at the races? There are two racetracks in Tokyo: Tokyo Racecourse in Fuchu and Tokyo Oi Racecourse in Shinagawa, also known as Tokyo…
At some point around mid-summer you’ll no doubt notice a fleeting craze among Japanese for eating eel (unagi). The unique dish is obviously a firm favourite among Japanese, and usually it is only the price of the snake-like fish that puts…
Tsukiji Fish Market is undoubtedly a fascinating experience: the biggest whole fish market in the world with over 2 million kilograms being sold every day. But—despite the seemingly never-ending delays—it will at some point move to its new and gleaming…