It wasn’t even 8 AM yet and it didn’t take a genius to realize why I needed to queue for more than two hours just to stand in front of Sushi Dai at Tsukiji Fish Market and stare at people eating sushi. The famous Japanese Sushi restaurant is the same size as my room…
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Keep ReadingToday is the last day of my second Japan trip and has shaped up to be one of my most memorable travel tales. I have had too many first-time experiences jam-packed into the day before even 9 AM. This is the story of how I ended up eating sushi for breakfast at the world-famous…
Keep ReadingVisiting Shibuya means walking on the iconic Shibuya crossing. The world’s busiest pedestrian crossing, the Shibuya crossing is a quirky thing to tick off of the Tokyo travel list. I expected to see some weird shenanigans while walking on the Shibuya crossing. But instead, rushing among thousands of strangers, I felt overwhelmed. I chalked it out as a dehydration…
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