Tag: kameido

weekend escapades in tokyo

sky tree in the distance, surrounded by buildings

weezer

Last week, Weezer announced they are doing a Broadway residency for five nights, playing their new seasonal albums in September and I can’t tell you how much I want/ed to go. We costed it up and it was looking to be around £7,500 at least with flights, hotels, tickets and that’s not including any spending money. If we’d have had more notice, flights and hotels would have been cheaper but alas, it wasn’t to be. I hope they come back to Japan soon.

Japanese road against blue skies
pedestrian only road

hot hot hot

Speaking of Japan, the heat! It has gone to full on summer and ...

ume matsuri

On Sunday, it was a beautiful day here.  Not as warm as Saturday but we had lovely clear, blue skies and it was the perfect weather to go and see the plum blossoms!  So we went to 亀戸天神 (Kameido-Tenjin Shrine).

These green signs led the way from the station.  The main road that we went along was pedestrianised which I loved.  Not sure if this is just an every so often thing or an every Sunday thing, but it felt very daring to be able to just walk in the middle of the road.

We got to the shrine and ...