TheTechMatterAnswer: Japan Travel & Internet survival guide

Today I added video streaming feature to my blog, so, I decided for the first “video time” to present you a very short film extracted from documentary we realized at Tokyo in this year travel. I selected a video of Gundam Statue in Shiokaze park located in the Odaiba Island of Tokyo. The statue now [...]

The day of departure from Japan was a Monday (of July). Very early in the morning we left our hotel in Ueno, and by Keisei Skyliner train we arrived at the huge Narita airport (which has 99 gate) and by an Airbus A340 we reached Helsinki after 10 hours of flight. After another 3 hours [...]

For this last day available for the visiting Tokyo we spent the morning with a last ride to Akihabara for a last shopping at the Tokyo Anime Center, a shop (contained in a large building for the conventions of Akihabara) dedicated to exclusive goods related to Japanese cartoons (where among other things, I bought a [...]

When the first day in Tokyo we visited the artificial island of Odaiba with our 7 Japanese friends, because of time constraints, we have not seen many shows at Miraikan and we have not seen all the most famous attractions. On this day, a Saturday, I and one of my other traveling companions, we decided [...]

After the trip to Nikko, in the travel plans that I predicted I placed a visit to Hakone, around the lake Hashi at the foot of Mount Fuji (Fuji san), using no less than 5 different means of transport for the journey. However, after a visit to Nikko of the day before I wanted to [...]

The today’s trip, for the fourth day in Tokyo was Nikko, a town at the entrance to Nikko National Park, which contains a cluster of mausoleums, Shintoist shrines and Buddhist temples. We departed at the morning from Ueno, not too soon, after our usual breakfast of bread, jam and fruit juice. Using first Shinkansen train [...]

On the third day in Tokyo, we started the morning with a visit to the National Museum: I have to say that the only thing that disappointed us about this trip was this museum. From the tourist’s perspective  there’s nothing to see and even if one were an history expert would remain perplexed as the [...]

This day should be devoted to visiting the Tokyo National Museum, but inexplicably and without any notice even on the official site,  the museum was closed. So we spent all afternoon and what remained of the morning to the shops of Akihabara, a district of electronics, computer, anime, manga, music, and action figures (and various [...]

Finally we arrived in the most populated city in the world: Tokyo. Here we stayed at the Sutton Place Hotel in Ueno: it is a comfortable hotel with the usual electronic toilet, air conditioning, refrigerator and Internet connection via LAN as we found in the other two hotels and Italian breakfast. In the morning we [...]

On this day we had time only up to 3:00pm because of our train leaving for Tokyo. I admit that was a mistake to choose to leave Kanazawa so soon, since we could not calmly watch all the attractions. In the morning we got up and we had breakfast, for me in Italian style and [...]