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  • Narita International Airport Terminal 1: Alcohol….Oh, Alcohol

    Paying 1,000 Yen to the driver with tie, receiving a receipt, ending with taking a back seat, I was now ready to explore the Higashi Kanto Expressway. This was the same street I passed by for the first time after arriving in Tokyo a few days ago. Taking 70 kilometer asphalt road and within an…

  • Tokyo Station: Finding Trail to JR Expressway Bus Stop

    A little past two in the afternoon. I started leaving Meiji Jingū via Harajuku Station. I retraced Yamanote Line, turning south through Shinagawa District, then back to north. It covered a distance of fifteen kilometers and costed 200 Yen. I arrived at Tokyo Station a little past three-thirty in the afternoon and was dropped off…

  • Writing Prayers and Wishes in Meiji Jingū

    The tragedy of losing my wallet at Nakano Station made me gulp in fear, it turned out that there was still a coward side behind my courage to explore the world. I calmed down for a moment by sipping drinking water from free water station at one of Nakano Station platforms. The silver and yellow…

  • Losing a wallet at Nakano Station

    Mattress at Yadoya Guesthouse’s bunk bed also seemed to like an ice beam, even when early hours have already gone. That morning, I deliberately slowed myself to wake up, I looked like a coward who hid behind the thickness of dormitory blanket. I revenged for my eyes, after almost forty hours didn’t so perfectly closed.…

  • Meeting Lonely on Takeshita Street

    I shuffled away from Kanda River, cut a bend in Chuo-dori Avenue, and turned right across Maidreamin, speeding down the six-meter-wide street to quickly arrive at Akihabara Station’s Electronic Town South Exit. See you soon Akiba…. For a moment I took a deep breath inside station building, letting my palms and face slightly warm. I…

  • Enjoying Akihabara from Kanda River

    Electronic Town South Exit Dinner was finished. I hurriedly left Ameyoko Market and walked back to Ueno Station’s Hirokoji Exit. My steps were getting faster and easier because Tokunai Pass was still active in my hand. I seem to have a power to go in and out of each station since that afternoon. It was…

  • Dinner at Ameya Yokocho, Taitō

    I was standing again at train platform, in Shibuya Station, in Yamanote Line, on 3:48 p.m. The sun had retreated on city skyline and made the temperature degraded to a point of 3 Celsius Degree. Then the air which was nearing to freezing easily penetrated thick black gloves on my palms. But it would be…

  • Aura of Hachiko Statue, Five Times in Shibuya Crossing

    Still remember?….. When D.K’s black car was chasing Sean Boswell who was speeding in his red racing car and the racing group was led by Han Lue in front who was masculine swerving in his yellow racing car. In the chase, there was a moment when three race cars were forced to pass at an…

  • Meet with Janessa at Yadoya Guesthouse

    Nakano Station building has two levels above ground with eight platforms. The front lobby of station is stretched out with a canopy made of Aluminum Composite Panel until it is right at the front gate of Nakano Sun Mall. When I got there, I exited the north door with a huge paved courtyard decorated with…

  • Hunting Tokunai Pass: Chou Line from Tokyo to Nakano

    As usual, perpetuating oneself in front of important spots in other countries was a natural habit. So before entering Tokyo Station, I took a time to pose in front of its gate. It was right in front of the “Yaeshu North Entrance”. “If you go to Tokyo. You rarely met people above the surface, Donny.…