Gosh, Tokyo is massive. You start to realise just how big the world’s largest city is (37 million at the last count) when you delve underground and tackle the monstrous and overly-crowded Tokyo subway system (no surprises then that Tokyo has the world’s busiest subway), which is daunting at first, but sort of manageable after…
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Home Away From Home in Downtown Asakusa
We’ve escaped the building ‘wet season’ of Cairns – the heat, humidity and increasingly heavy rain and headed to the frozen north (again). This time, a couple of weeks in Japan. One week in Tokyo, then a week via the Shinkansen up to freezing snowy Sapporo for the Ice Festival. More on that later. In…