We’ve shifted our blog to WordPress.com. Far better support than the internet service provider that I previously had.
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We also share some “instant” photos on Instagram. Some of the highlights are below.
Helen and friends admiring a model of a royal occasion in Naha.
Coffee at our ‘local’ in Tokyo.
Christmas beer!
Random train shot.
Customised digital art.
Bikes near Shibuya Stream.
Beeline says 8.3km
Google says 11.1km
But we took 16.4 km…
That’s the joy of random riding in T?kyo.
We made it – now we have a queue.
Fika, coffee and bikes. If you’ve received this as an e-mail notification please click-through to the post to see the video.
No bikes. We’ve gone back to our photo archive to make video for a trip to Korea in 2008. If you’ve received this as an e-mail notification please click-through to the post to see the video.
Berlin’s a great bike town. If you’ve received an e-mail notification click-through to the post to see the video.
Finally finished all our videos from 2017. This is Poland!
Our usual apologies to Japanese speakers – the music sounds good, but we don’t know what the lyrics mean. Let us know if we should change a song!
Sometimes when the other blog author is posting, I am doing useful things like washing the few clothes that I have. Fortunately, Hotel Niwa has recently made that experience better.
Without leaving my room. I can now find out if the washing machines and dryers are available! Hotel Niwa is great for having a washing machine. I hate hotels that want to charge $3 to wash one underpant.
More importantly, I can find out if the massage chairs are occupied.
Also, if the breakfast room (which we don’t normally go to) is busy or not.
Normally, it’s coffee at Glitch. I am on to my third loyalty card!!
Yes, there are trams in Japan. Although, like the rest of the world most of them have been pulled out.
One spot this is not the case is Toyama. Toyama is an industrious area to the north-west of Tokyo and s centre for the pharmaceutical industry in Japan.
In early August 1945 the city was almost completely destroyed, which explains the wider tree lined streets and the presence of three tram lines.
Toyama is a pleasant city with a population of around 420,000. Its density and layout ensures that it is easy to get around. Although, like Adelaide walking can often be faster than the tram.
Much of the rolling stock is postwar vintage – making it as fun ride – like the St Kilda tramway museum.
A further light rail system operating to the port area opened in 2006 – in a first for Japan.
