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1994
Japan - South East Asia
Bec2004-09-21 11:26:30
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Tokyo
I had been in Tokyo before on business in 1973, 1974 and 1975. I had stayed in the very expensive Imperial and Okura hotels which I certainly could not afford now. They probably would not have let me in with my backpack!
Anyway, I was lucky as usual and I found a room in this inexpensive ryokan in a the northern suburb of Nippori for only 40.00 $US a night.
Kobe beef is no doubt the best in the world but I have not tasted it for it costs 3500 yen for 100 grams or 350 $US per kilo!
Having been here before, I would not have come a fourth time had it not been that I wanted to visit my friend Naoko in Tokyo and my sister Monique in Koriyama in the north.
Naturally, I went sightseeing for there is so much to see in Tokyo. Here is the modern Yoyogi Stadium in Yoyogi Park, between Shinjuku and Shibuya.
Below left, with my friend Naoko before the great Buddha of Kamakura an hour by train south of Tokyo. Below right, the Shinto Tsurugaoka Temple in Tokyo
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