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Venus Fort and Toyota History Garage

by josephbautista | Sunday, July 29, 2018 | Koto, Tokyo, Yamanashi

Venus Fort and Toyota history garage Losing sense of time and space in Odaiba, it’s possible. That’s how it feels after spending just a couple of hours inside Palette town complex in Odaiba. For those aficionados to vintage cars and mid 20th century memorabilia, head...

Miraikan, museum of the future

by josephbautista | Sunday, November 22, 2015 | Koto, Tokyo

Though I lived for over three years in Tokyo, it wasn’t until my last trip as a tourist back to the big metropoli in summer that I decided to pay a visit to the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, also known as Miraikan. Located in the artificial...

Expo ’70 Commemoration Park (Bampaku kinen-koen 万博記念公園)

by josephbautista | Sunday, August 23, 2015 | Japan, Osaka

UPDATED: In autumn 2015 the latest project, Osaka Expoland will be inaugurated. This will be the largest entertainment and shopping center in all Japan, reactivating the whole area of the Expo ’70 Bampaku park. The Expo ’70 Bampaku Park in Osaka has a...

One day viking tour, the island of Birka and restaurant Aifur

by josephbautista | Sunday, August 16, 2015 | Europe, Food, Stockholm

As I introduced my reason to go to Stockholm in my first post of impressions about it, the research of viking lost culture was the main reason of my trip to the North. To do that, I asked beforehand to many swedish friends, search on guide books and sites to get some...

Things to do in Kanazawa, my Golden week trip

by josephbautista | Sunday, June 14, 2015 | Ishikawa, Japan, Things to do

It’s been a little more than 2 years of my trip to Kanazawa, but I would like to share some tips and my experience of my weekend in Kanazawa for Golden Week. At the time, I wasn’t good enough with japanese reading so my friend Yurina helped me a lot with...