Good afternoon peeps!
I hope all had a good week and can continue through to the weekend. The temperature seems to have fallen considerably in the last few days. Last night I had suddenly awoke because my body was feeling cold, though I leave my windows ajar throughout the day/evening. Ok, enough of me...let's check out what's going on in and around the concrete jungle.
Here is a countdown of the 25 things you can do in Tokyo for free or little cost:
1) Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building Observatories: 202m
2) Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center: Give a helping hand to our lost foreigners!
3) Sky Carrot Observation Floor: Check out the views from the 26th floor overlooking the Bay Bridge
4) Bunkyo Civic Center Observation Lounge: Check out the 25th floor/105m and view Tokyo Skytree, Shinjuku and as far as Mt Fuji and the Chichibu Mountains. 330-degree panorama!
5) Tower Hall Funabori Observation Room: 115m/360-degree spectacular photo opportunities
6) Yebisu Beer Museum: Want to learn alittle about the making history of one of Japan's favorite brews?
7) Suntory Musashino Beer Factory: A one hour tour and free samples
8) Morinaga Milk Tokyo Tama Plant: Pass their medical check up and you can enter and enjoy the makings of Morinaga products
9) Coca-Cola Tama Factory: Wanna know the secret of Coca-Cola?
10) Japanese Sake Information Center: One of my favorite places, maybe because there are free samples
11) Suntory Hall Organ Promenade Concerts: On Thursdays during lunchtime, they play 30 minutes from their infamous organ
12) Scai Bathhouse: A 200 year old bathhouse with modern exhibitions, both in Japanese and international
13) ADMT Advertising Museum Tokyo: Check out their 17th century wood block prints to modern product-placement techniques
14) Sumo Museum: Learn about the history of massive men crashing into each other
15) Tama Library Tokyo Magazine Bank: Another quiet place to check out the massive collection of over 16,000 issues
16) Koishikawa Library: Looking for a CD/DV or vinyls and sheet music?
17) Travel Library: Have a place you are thinking to venture to? Check this library out for a lot of updates of places.
18) Only Free Paper: A place located in the Shibuya area to read periodicals
19) Palace Cycling Course: I highly recommend this place if you ever wanna cycle and have a great time. You can rent bikes at reasonable prices. Cycle along the Palace on Uchibori-dori and go round and round til 3pm. Try out the Tandem bikes!
20) Komorebi no Ashiyu: Rest your weary feet here in warm water. Ground water is diverted up through a 250 m deep well and then warmed with leftover heat from the neighboring waste processing plant
21) Suginami Animation Museum: Join one of their workshops and have some fun
22) Asukayama Park Monorail: A great hilltop wooded area next to Oji station
23 Japanese Boats at Yokojikkengawa Shinsui Park: Volunteers bring their traditional, wooden Japanese style boats once a week for your enjoyment
24) Fishing at Shimizuike Park: Sorry, you can't take the fish home, but a great time to spend a few hours playing around
25) Himonya Dobutsu Hiroba: Basically a petting zoo
Hope you all can enjoy!
Chat ya later, Paul