Tag: Tokyo

New Tokyo: Akihabara, Electric City

Next, I visited Akihabara, the “Electric City”. Wow. Akihabara is really the place you want to go if you’d like to build your own Cylon Centurion from scratch. I’m not joking – I really think you could make one, if you were determined enough, had enough Yen and could speak enough Japanese. There were gaming […]

Old Tokyo: Harajuku, Meiji Jingu

I decided to split my first full day in Tokyo into two parts: old Japan and new Japan. Initially, the plan was to head south on the Yamanote line to Harajuku, leave the station and walk west towards Meiji Jingu (Meiji Shrine), do a circuit of the park and then cross over the train tracks […]