O snail Climb Mount Fuji, But slowly, slowly! (Haiku by Kobayashi Issa). There’s a well-known Japanese proverb that says, “A wise man will climb Mt Fuji once; a fool will climb Mt Fuji twice.” I have just returned from climbing Mount Fuji for the second time. Why did I do it again? Mainly to get […]
Falling sick is never a welcoming experience and can get unnecessarily complicated when you are traveling, especially if you do not speak the language of the country or know the right vocabulary to communicate your needs. Finding English-speaking doctors and health and wellness specialists in Japan used to be pretty tricky, but the new website HealthyTokyo.com is […]
The Robot Restaurant is one of those outrageous experiences that needs to be seen to be believed. I went with a friend who described it as the most typically Japanese thing he’d ever seen. Forget the ‘restaurant’ part of the name, you get a ‘bento’ box set for ‘dinner’ (read, cheap and convenient, available for […]
