One of my favourite places to go to see the cherry blossoms in Tokyo is Kudanshita. The station is always packed and it takes an age to get up the stairs, but once you emerge it’s full on sakura. There’s a beautiful moat around what was once part of the Emperors palace, and a grassy [...]
Last weekend there was crazy wind and rain all over Tokyo. After visiting a friend, we had to take a long detour through the Tokyo underground to get back. In one of the stations (maybe Kayabacho) they’d rigged up a drip to stop the water falling from the ceiling onto the platform and causing accidents. [...]
I’ve been wanting to go the Pecha Kucha Night in Tokyo since I heard about the concept. They accept presentations on just about any topic, and everyone has just 6 minutes to present a talk with 20 slides. You can talk about whatever you like, but everyone tends to talk about slightly artistic stuff.
Since it [...]
Here’s the best keyboard shop that I’ve found in Tokyo. It’s in Akihabara, about 5 minutes walk from the station, in a small alley. It’s called Cleverly and there are 3 separate stores. Only one of them does all keyboards, but they’re all close together, so just ask if you land in the wrong one. [...]
Here’s an excellent list of the major bookshops in Tokyo. It seems to be updated regularly (last update was a few days ago) and includes places that have closed as well as the ones that are still open.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4824/jp-tokyo.htm
Here’s a great list of all the libraries in the Tokyo area. It’s all in Kanji, but you can run it through a translator to find the one you need. This is probably going to be my next project for scraping, translating and mapping.
http://www.reference-net.jp/lib_dir/13.html
Here’s a page with links to libraries throughout Japan, organised by prefecture.
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