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The Tokyo Traveler

Archive for the ‘Must-See Sights’ Category

August 1st, 2008

Cruising the Sumida River

Visitors to Tokyo tend to do a lot of walking while touring the city.  The routine goes something like this, walk to the nearest Tokyo Metro Station, navigate your way to your destination, possibly transiting one or more stations on foot in the process, walk to and around your desired destination and finally,when you have […]

By Shane -- 3 comments

June 19th, 2008

Matthew Firestone - He’s Big in Japan!

I recently had the privilege and pleasure of interviewing Matthew Firestone, a freelance travel writer who is one of the authors of The Lonely Planet Guide to Japan and the writer of Big in Japan for Gadling. Over the past three years he has also written or contributed to the Lonely Planet Guides to […]

By Shane -- 7 comments

May 23rd, 2008

Royalty in Tokyo - The Imperial Palace

Across from the grand Imperial Hotel you will find the Imperial Palace, home to Their Majesties, the Emperor and Empress of Japan. The palace has housed the Imperial Household of Japan since 1868, when the imperial family relocated from Kyoto which had been the imperial capital for more than a thousand years.
Japan’s monarchy […]

By Shane -- 8 comments