I’ve probably had more contact with the police than the average person might expect to have, considering that I’m a law abiding citizen (of two countries) and I’m not one for excessive drinking or anything that could get me into trouble. This is entirely due to the fact that the world is full of stupid [...]
Category: Articles in English, Blog, Suède / Sweden | Comments (6)Map of DisneySea
In our quest to see as much as possible while in Japan, we included Tokyo Disney Sea in our itinerary. It’s a 176 acre (714,000 m²) theme park that sits outside of Tokyo, in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan. It (and it’s sister park, Tokyo Disneyland) aren’t actually owned by Disney, but are instead licensed [...]
Hakone Travel Guide
Hakone
One of our mini-trips from Tokyo was a sightseeing trip to Hakone, with the goal of seeing Mount Fuji and the hot springs.
Hakone-Tozan line trainGetting there is, to the least, complicated. First the subway lines to get you to a the special quaint Hakone-Tozan line train which zigzags (or if you want to [...]
Spindly trees struggling to grow in heaps of copper slag. Welcome to Falun.
As a part of the course I’m taking at Stockholm University, my class needed to go to Falun in order to do the interviews and research necessary for a field work report. (I’m studying ethnology aka cultural anthropology for Americans.) My research [...]
The second leg of our journey
Before I even begin describing Japan, I have to talk about *getting* to Japan. We left home at 11:45AM on a Monday and arrived at Tokyo Airport at 3:30PM Tuesday, local time. It was a very long trip with a changeover in London. The flight to London was pretty commonplace, [...]
