Travel through life with Faith
For the fifth and final day, we decided to go around the popular areas of Shinjuku, Harajuku, and Shibuya for our last-day shopping. Lunch at Tenkaippin. Shinjuku area. The old Harajuku station. They demolished it and built a new one with fire-resistant materials. Takeshita Street in Harajuku. Shibuya Crossing. To read the previous posts about […]
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Tokyo Disney Sea, unique to Asia and the entire Disney them park chain for its nautical theme, is now on its 15th year of operation. When we came there in May, the whole theme park was decorated for Easter with tons of Disney Easter eggs! We’re coming for you, Disney! (After leaving our excess bags […]
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The third and final stop on our third day in Tokyo was at Seaside Top Observatory Deck. This is, by far, my favorite stop out of our entire six-day trip. It felt as if I had all of Tokyo in arm’s length. From the street market, Ameyayokocho, we took some time to go back to […]
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The first stop for our third day in Tokyo was a visit to Yamashiroya Toy Store because we couldn’t get enough of toys from last night’s trip to Akihabara. Yamashiroya is a 5-storey toy store filled with all kinds of Japanese and Western pop culture merchandises. It’s small, but jam-packed with goodies for any otaku, regular […]
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I’m back! It’s been awhile since I wrote anything here on the blog. That’s because I became unexpectedly busy. Just today I finished an art commission job that required me to draw two people, caricature style. That’s on top of my regular schedule. Now that that is out of the way, I’m back on our […]
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Due to the influx of people applying for a Korean visa, the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the Philippines announced that Filipinos who wish to travel to South Korea can now only apply for a visa through travel agencies. This will become effective starting on July 1, 2018 onwards. Here are all the travel agencies […]
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June 18, 2018: A magnitude 6.1 earthquake shook Osaka and its neighbouring prefectures in Japan during the morning rush hour (just before 8AM in Japan), killing at least five people and injuring as much as 340 (NHK). For a tourist in Japan, it might be a shock to encounter an earthquake during your stay. Since […]
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Sharing with you the four-day Tokyo itinerary that we followed in our first ever trip there. I listed down the places we visited and brief comments are available for each one. We stayed there for around six days, but the first and last day was dedicated towards settling into our hotel and packing to go […]
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I swear, my legs were killing me by then, but what does it matter? From Tokyo Skytree, Akihabara, also known as anime and electronics central, was the next stop for us. I’ve been seeing the place on TV since I was in elementary and I was finally there. Akihabara is Tokyo’s otaku hub with displays of recognizable anime characters […]
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From Sensoji Temple earlier that day, we could see the iconic Tokyo Skytree looming in the background. Plus, that’s my mom, dad, and bro in the pic below too. Tokyo Skytree, along with Tokyo Tower, the red tower similar to France’s Eiffel, are the two most famous viewing decks in Tokyo, although there are dozens of other […]
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Faithful Journeys 