Tag Archives: P2V

境港 [Sakaiminato]

Posted on October 25, 2020 by JBinnacle

To get the steam rolling for Hallowe’en next weeekend, we bring you a post about an almost-literal Yokai Town. Sakaiminato [境港] is a small town in the Prefecture of Tottori [鳥取県, Tottori-ken] in the east of Japan. It might not … Continue reading →

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富士山 [Fuji-san]

Posted on August 9, 2020 by JBinnacle

This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of our climbing Mount Fuji, which we did on the 10th/11th of August 2019, the second weekend of the month (on Japanese Mountain Day). We thought we might give you some information about Japan’s … Continue reading →

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Beppu & Beppu Jigoku

Posted on November 2, 2019 by JBinnacle

Beppu [別府] is a city in the Ōita Prefecture, to the east of the island of Kyuushu in the south of Japan. It has so much geothermal activity that they had to build “chimneys” into the ground to vent the … Continue reading →

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Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building (TMGB)

Posted on October 5, 2019 by JBinnacle

Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building or TMGB [東京都庁, Tōkyō Tochō] is basically Tokyo’s city hall, so you might think about giving it a miss, but here’s a well-known secret: one of the buildings has two free observation decks, and they are … Continue reading →

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Samurai Museum Shinjuku (Tokyo)

Posted on July 27, 2019 by JBinnacle

東京都新宿区歌舞伎町2-25-6. Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo Kabukicho 2-25-6 (Map) Website: https://www.samuraimuseum.jp/ Twitter: @MuseumSamurai Facebook: Samurai Museum Instagram: @samuraimuseumtokyo TripAdvisor: Samurai Museum   1900 ¥ (R: 800 ¥) The Samurai Museum is located in Kabukicho, in Shinjuku, about 10 minutes walking from the station. … Continue reading →

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Rainbow Bridge (レインボーブリッジ / Reinboo buriiji), Tokyo

Posted on September 30, 2017 by JBinnacle

The Rainbow Bridge connects the artificial island of Odaiba (jokingly referred to in SemiRandom as ShoppingCentreLand) to mainland Tokyo above Tokyo Bay. It is anchored between Shibaura Pier (Shibaurafuto) and the Odaiba waterfront. It was completed in 1993 by Kawasaki. … Continue reading →

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X2Y in Japan

Posted on October 8, 2016 by JBinnacle

We’re going to start a new section on the blog that we’re going to call X2Y: X to Y in Japan. It will have two main subsections: places to visit (P2V) and food to eat (F2E). Here we’ll talk about … Continue reading →

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