Again I’ve been silent for a while, but I’ve been busy with many different things. However, now that I have a little bit of time I thought it was about time for a new blog post. Right now I am… Continue Reading
I finally found some time to write on my blog after some busy weeks preparing for a conference in Munich, and today I will write about a weekend trip to the Tochigi prefecture north of Tokyo, Japan. We took off towards… Continue Reading
Sunday last week I got back to Denmark, but as I fell behind with my writing there are still things missing from my 6 weeks stay in Japan. This time will be about a day spent renting bikes and riding… Continue Reading
Sorry, it’s been a while since I last wrote on my blog (again), and that means that I have fallen even further behind with posts I want to write. The next story in line is about a trip to Kusatsu… Continue Reading
The next day in Kanazawa started out by checking out from the ryokan around 10 AM and the weather was awesome! Using the cheap rental bike system again, we went to have breakfast somewhere that had gotten good reviews and… Continue Reading
The weekend before last I went to Kanazawa (金沢) and this is definitely a place I can recommend to visit. It takes around 2.5 hours by train from Tokyo and going by Shinkansen it is not particularly cheap, but the place… Continue Reading
Last week, I went sightseeing in Yokohama which is about 1 hour by train from central Tokyo. We arrived around 12, and the first stop was China Town! In China Town you buy plenty of food you can take with you… Continue Reading
Yesterday I went to Harajuku, which is a famous place to go shopping. There are many flashy stores with clothes I would never dream about wearing, however that is also what makes it quite interesting to walk around and look.… Continue Reading
During the last part of my 6 month research stay at Waseda University in Tokyo I was so busy that I didn’t get to write any posts – but not because of lack of writing material. Therefore, even though some… Continue Reading
After a very successful stay abroad in Japan, I did not have to think hard when I got the offer of spending some Japan-Denmark fund money to go back for a visit. In the beginning, my supervisor just told me… Continue Reading