May 21, 2009 - 1:52 pm by Him in Others
In terms of sporting options, Japan is up there with the pack.
There are few competitive sports in the world today that cannot be sampled somewhere or other in Japan, while those of us on the lookout merely to serve as spectators have a similar wealth of options to go with.
Baseball is perhaps the de-facto national [...]
April 21, 2009 - 9:28 am by Him in Others
Not one of the biggest ‘names’ in as far as hotels go in Japan, the Tokyo Dome Hotel is, despite its deviation from the more popular locations and lack of a worldwide name, one of the very best hotels in the city, and one worth a visit just to dine in the top class restaurants, [...]
April 13, 2009 - 12:28 pm by Him in Others
April rolls round again, and with it the start of the domestic baseball season.
With both leagues – the Central and Pacific – now entering their second full week of competition, a few patterns are starting to emerge and things are warming up nicely.
The Giants in Tokyo are always popular but can be a tricky team [...]
February 16, 2009 - 8:26 am by Him in Others
During an 1881 tour of Japan, Britain’s Prince of Wales (later King George V) had a large Japanese style dragon tattooed on his arm?
Some thought that baseball playingwould hurt Japanese morals as gentlemen don’t steal (bases);
the reason behind Britain and Germany not playing the game it was said?
The first operational train station in Tokyo was [...]
December 25, 2007 - 10:45 am by Gomar in Others, Travel
This is Christmas illumination of the TOKYO DOME CITY.
http://www.tokyo-dome.co.jp/e/
TOKYO DOME is Yomiuri Giants base ground of the professional baseball team.
The illumination was very beautiful and very happy feelings.
