by Katrine Sivertsen | Feb 27, 2024 | Blog, Katrine
We did so much today! But you kind of have to because there’s so much to cover, it’s impossible to do everything. Our morning was spent on a traditional Japanese cooking course where we cooked, among other things, wagyu meat (and ate it). A train ride away we found... 
by Katrine Sivertsen | Feb 26, 2024 | Blog, Katrine
Akihabara was our first stop. This area is famous for lots of character shops, electronics and arcades. We tried a couple of retro games, like dance dance revolution. Asakusa was next up, with the lots of little stores, and we visited the samurai and ninja museum and... 
by Katrine Sivertsen | Feb 25, 2024 | Blog, Katrine
Seizo, our companion for the day, took us crisscrossing the city today. First to Meiji shrine, then to the shopping area, Asakusa, and its Buddhist temple, Sensoji. He taught us the rituals to clean hands and mouth, and offer a 5 yen coin for luck and bow. And... 
by Katrine Sivertsen | Feb 24, 2024 | Blog, Katrine
The downside of arriving early in the morning is that hotel checkin is in the afternoon, so our tired faces and sweaty bodies spent the first hours exploring the nearby neighborhoods which included the imperial palace east gardens and Tokyo station. The gardens are... 
by Katrine Sivertsen | Feb 23, 2024 | Blog, Katrine
Early, early in the morning we took off to Copenhagen with the first flight from Sola, and continued on to Tokyo on a 13 hour flight. A meal, a few movies, a moisturizing mask (both of us), and forty winks later, it was already Saturday and we were welcomed to Japan...