Posted by Trejkaz
Sat, 21 Oct 2006 05:08:00 GMT
It was Sunday, and I had a free day which wasn’t initially planned. The weather was good, so I knew that I had to visit the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, and get some photos of the surrounding skyscrapers from up there. After that, I knew I would be going to a park, but I decided to make the decision of which park, dependent on which platform of the Yamanote Line I happened to find first. (LOL)
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Posted by Trejkaz
Sat, 21 Oct 2006 04:48:00 GMT
On waking up I was able to appreciate the Hotel Grand Palace, it’s quite a good place. Shame the only reason I got to see it was due to an emergency booking, and also a shame that I only got a couple of hours of waking time in the hotel.
I was up early, making calls to book for another hotel.
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Posted by Trejkaz
Sat, 21 Oct 2006 04:24:00 GMT
Ah, day fourteen… the end of the trip.
Or was it?
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Posted by Trejkaz
Sat, 21 Oct 2006 04:08:00 GMT
(Finally, some time for more catch-up.)
Day thirteen was my last full day in Tokyo. As there were a number of things people had requested me to find that I hadn’t found yet, I decided to devote the middle of the day to one last shopping spree, as the evening was already covered by a booking to go see a play at the Kabuki theatre.
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Posted by Trejkaz
Sat, 14 Oct 2006 08:44:00 GMT
As Tokyo was starting to become expensive (in terms of shopping anyway, and other things) I booked two days worth of tours further away from the city to fill larger quantities of time without spending too much money.
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Posted by Trejkaz
Thu, 12 Oct 2006 06:31:00 GMT
I know I haven’t posted all the holiday entries yet but I thought I’d mention (for those of you who might be wondering) that I’m back in Sydney as of Tuesday morning. I was supposed to be back Saturday morning but there were a few fun issues getting home which I’ve already written up in entries which need further checking and editing.
The remaining holiday entries will probably be finished at a rate of one per day until I reach the group of more recent ones which have already been written or until the weekend is reached, whichever comes first. And once I finally have those out of the way, I can start looking at the photos.
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Posted by Trejkaz
Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:14:00 GMT
On day ten I had planned to go to Shinjuku to check out the observatory of the Metropolitan Government Building. But visibility was poor, and indeed it rained again.
I did manage to book the rest of the week’s tours, though. [Note: turned out that the weather wasn’t actually so bad on the days when I actually had to leave the metropolis. Lucky.]
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Posted by Trejkaz
Sun, 01 Oct 2006 12:30:00 GMT
I originally had more plans for the weekend, but it turned out being much more quiet than I’d originally planned.
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Posted by Trejkaz
Sat, 30 Sep 2006 06:39:00 GMT
On day seven, most of the americans returned home, while some stayed in the hotel. However, I had opted to stay in a different hotel which had a somewhat better reputation.
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Posted by Trejkaz
Sat, 30 Sep 2006 06:29:00 GMT
Day six was the free day for the set tour, and even though there were many other options open to me, I decided to go and look for stuff to buy again.
The day went well, details are within. Actually, I’m writing this entry on the evening of day six as I’m catching up on my backlog. But you probably won’t have seen it until a day or two later, because I first need to (a) find some Internet access that doesn’t suck in a country which is allegedly well-connected, and (b) get all the previous entries checked and put up first.
I found the wifi hotspot in the hotel, but my laptop can’t connect to it so it’s as good as broken. Why can’t they just give us an ethernet jack and be done with it? I’d rather pay ¥500 per day for that than the same amount for wifi that doesn’t even connect.
…and as for what happened today…
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