We only spent a few hours in Osaka, but it started off super-relaxed: Sitting in a Ramen bar, taking a few minutes to pick a cheap hotel in Bangkok to…
After having spent the last four weeks without any person I’ve known before, I was about to meet Tessa in Tokyo, a colleague and very close friend. She had been…
Akihabara is Tokyo’s massive district for everything geeky: Video games, arcades, mangas, cosplay… as well as everything “adult”. And it’s probably the largest district of its kind in the world.…
It wasn’t hard to get hold of a metro ticket at Narita Airport in Tokyo. But on my second day I kept walking back and forth between multiple arrays of…
Shopping is not my thing. I get the feeling I know everything that really interests me already, and there’s nothing new to find. But when I first walked into a…
When booking my first capsule hotel, I was getting ready for an uncomfortable, but memorable experience. I was so wrong. These things are comfortable! They don’t feel like a coffin…
My first few hours in Tokyo went pretty smoothly. I hadn’t prepared anything. I had no idea about the currency, the public transport or how to get to the capsule…