IJT Japan NewsI’ve been working at InsideJapan Tours’ Nagoya office (west Japan) for the last month. As enjoyable as that is, I’ve been eagerly waiting to get back to Tokyo to start my next tour leading stint. I hadn’t been to Tokyo for a number of weeks so I was keen to visit some old friends and haunts. And, [...]
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It has been almost a month since the Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) took the precaution of advising against travelling to Tokyo, but restrictions have finally been lifted. InsideJapan Tours are grateful to the UK government for being the first to react, but have been frustrated for weeks in the knowledge that Tokyo has been safe [...]
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Although the Fukushima Plant continues make headlines, Bob Bury, the former clinical lead for the U.K.’s Royal College of Radiologists, says that a number of countries and cities around the world have naturally occurring radiation levels that exceed Tokyo’s, even during this time of crisis. Meanwhile, the U.K. Health Protection Agency estimates that the average [...]
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You may have been getting the message that Tokyo has returned pretty much back to normal. According to our staff and even our customers that are there, the great city is pretty much ‘normal’. InsideJapan have a number of group tours still running and a few indepedent travellers who decided that recent events in the [...]
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Saturday April 2nd 2011 Inokashira Park in Tokyo It`s still early in the hanami season, but already the party has begun in Tokyo. In Inokashira park yesterday, hundreds of people were celebrating the arrival of spring with a picnic with friends/family/colleagues under a sakura (cherry blossom) tree. There was a festive New Years Eve kind of atmosphere. Knowing tea ceremony [...]
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A Message from Tokyo IJT tour leader Tom Orsman is concerned about the Wests image of Tokyo right now and slightly perplexed about the current FCO advice for Japan’s capital city. Here is a copy of his email sent on the 31st March; I have heard some people were concerned about the lack of bottled [...]
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