For those of you, who pitied me for having to work on the 25th and 26th this month: don’t. Even though this great event does not exist as such in Japan, they created their own, distinctively Japanese version of it. Much more interesting in a way. So what is different? Christmas here is thought to be [...]
As there are quite a few Germans living in Tokyo, there is a reasonable presence of churches. So, albeit they are hidden and hard to find for the regular tourist, every year all of us poor, homesick Germans are informed by the German Society, the Embassy or other means of the christmas markets and their locations. [...]
After last years’ fabulous day at the Oktoberfest in Yokohama, I call like to think of this as a small revival and somehow also my pay of paying tribute to having been in Japan over a year now.
After a bit of short term planning we manaed to all arrive more or less punctually at the [...]