Travel

Japan Images: The Last Tram in Tokyo

July 13th, 2010

When you think of the super high-tech, neon saturated city of Tokyo, perhaps the word tram is not the first thing to enter your mind. Me neither but I stumbled across a post somewhere on the interwebs about Tokyo’s last remaining streetcar line, the 12km Toden Arakawa Line, which dates from 1913 and decided to check it out.

Hotel Claska, Tokyo: Room 502

November 14th, 2009

Perhaps it’s just me but in my past experiences with hotels, it is very rare to arrive in your room for the first time and find that it is actually better than what you expected, however that is certainly true of Room 502 at Claska.

Hotel Claska, Tokyo: About

November 14th, 2009

Located on the fashionable Meguro-dori, Hotel Claska is a hip boutique hotel in the sprawling western suburbs of Tokyo. To the typical “sightseeing 3 days package tour traveller” it might be considered out of the way but with the ubiquitous Tokyo public transport system we were never more than a short bus, taxi or train ride to most major destinations across Tokyo.

Hotel Claska, Tokyo: To and From

November 14th, 2009

I’ve read alot about the inconvenient location of Hotel Claska and most of it is unjustified. Sure, it isn’t one block away from the blazing lights of Shinjuku or Ginza but that’s the great thing about it.

Aussie dollar hits 12-month high against Yen

October 16th, 2009

This is probably not exciting news to anyone outside of Australia but today we finally crawled back up to just shy of 84 against the Japanese Yen for the first time in twelve months.

Hopefully we can see it nudge up over 90 and then suddenly all those shiny new toys in Akihabara and Yodobashi are going to be back on my list.