Vagabonding Field Reports: Lost in translation in Tokyo

Cost/day: 35$ per day and I have been hosted 6 nights out of 7. My last night in Tokyo I slept in a internet-cafè which cost me 1450yen for 10 hours package+ 800 to secure my bag in a locker for 2 days. What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? Sanitary masks. Many people in...

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Asia's amazing subways

Asia's big cities are a great place to live the "car-free" lifestyle. Thanks to onerous taxes levied on cars and license plates, many governments also encourage usage of mass transit to relieve traffic congestion. Travel + Leisure Southeast Asia did a round-up of the rails: Asian city public transport guide . Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei,...

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Tokyo's ancient eco past

The news is full these days about a "green revolution." Is it really the wave of the future? Or is it actually a return to the past, when living in harmony with the environment was standard practice? The Tokyo expat magazine Metropolis published excerpts from a new work titled Just Enough: Lessons in Living Green...

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Keeping up with Asia's big cities

New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Asia's metropolises never slow down. A new Web site sets out to cover these hip urban machines: CNNGo . It currently covers six cities: Bangkok, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo. CNNGo says they might expand to cover more cities in the future. What's...

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