The Cause is in the Way
Don’t let the pictures below fool you: It was gorgeous today. A fair bit of cloud, and only intermittent blue sky, but 24 degrees, a light breeze, zero humidity. It always gives me a thrill to be somewhere outside…
Sheung Wan is the Bomb!!!
Our hotel is in Sheung Wan, the end of a subway line, a transitional mix of massage parlors with cutting edge galleries, cool shops and cafes and old school market stalls with remnants of a colonial past. It’s a wild…
Go Eat and Drink and Feast Go East
Except we’re old men. (If you remember the Elvis song.) Most boring blog ever. Wake me up when there’s a Kalli Wag in site. At any rate, early rise on Friday, out of the hotel at seven, wheeled our baggage…
Sayanora
My transistor radio comes from far away And when it’s night over here over there it’s breaking day Buck Owens, Made in Japan Nourish twist…
Spirited Away Trailer
We did not have the Healthy Breakfast at $34, nor the American Breakfast at $35. After a bit of lounging we went downstairs to Starbucks and had a reasonable facsimile for $6. Typhoon Nuri, which passed Japan, was supposed to…
I have simple taste. Only the best.
That’s an Oscar Wilde quote. Still: Stephen got a very nice Christmas gift last year–two night’s at the Shangri-La Tokyo. So we packed up the bags and took the train two stops down the tracks then 28 floors up to…
We Do Kaiseki
When I arranged for our Kamakura guide we emailed quite a few times to sort out the itinerary and lunch. The tour is free but you pay for your guide’s lunch. She asked if we were vegetarian and what type…
Stephen and Glenn’s Shogun
Or so it seemed, one shrine following the next. A day away in Kamakura, the ancient Edo capital about an hour away from Tokyo where, arguably, many of the defining moments of Japanese history occurred. A military coup of sorts…
The Remains of the Edo
Another spectacular November day, sunny, occasional clouds, up to 20 degrees, light breeze. No complaints. SS in front of a water lily lake We headed up to Ueno, a large park with almost a dozen museums, a zoo,…
Mt. Fuji Makes an Appearance
There, you can see it in the distance from our hotel room just over top of the skyscraper, underneath the clouds. What a beautiful morning. Sunny and bright. It clouded over but remained warm. At one point my phone…