Inside Japan – From an Outlander to a Mini, Our Odyssey With Buying Cars in Tokyo

Hello everyone, how are you? I am already back! This article follows the one about renting cars in Japan, because we will keep talking about cars. But this time, the focus is on buying them, and especially in Tokyo, the place where we gained our unbelievable experience. Do you remember the recent post on my […]

Inside Japan – Coming Back to Tokyo: Important Documents and Quarantine Hotel Experience

Hello my dear readers, and welcome again to 2022! Hopefully it will start better than my 2021, as I narrated in my last, very personal, post. We spent our New Year’s Eve “on the road” (I will tell you this story later, stay tuned!) and then we took an airplane to Japan on January 3. […]

Inside Japan – 2021: The Year I Settled in Tokyo

Hello my beautiful people, I hope you are all fine and I wish you the best for your 2022! For me, it is that time of the year where I would like to share with you my personal experience. Feel free to continue reading at your own risk, I warned you! 2021 in a nutshellAs […]

Inside Japan – Searching for a Job in Tokyo and Japan as a Foreigner

Hello my beloved followers! I hope you are doing fine. Here Sakura are already a distant memory, the rainy season is approaching, and we are still in state of emergency. As the title of the article suggests, this time I would like to talk about searching for a job in Tokyo and Japan as a […]

Inside Japan – Moving to a New Apartment in Tokyo, Part II

Hello! How are you? Hope everything is fine. In Tokyo the state of emergency was extended until March 7, so I will continue working from home for quite a long time. This article follows the one of last week about moving to a new apartment in Tokyo. While last time we talked about how to […]

Inside Japan – Moving to a New Apartment in Tokyo, Part I

Hello everyone! How are you? Probably in some sort of quarantine like me, because this 2021’s looks a lot like the past year! I started working from home on some days, and with Jack we stopped going out unless we need food or essential furniture for our new apartment. Yes, we finally moved to Shinjuku-ku! […]

Japan Virtual Tours – Kansai Mon Amour! A Different Osaka, Nara, and Kyoto

Hello everyone! How are you? In my last article I wrote about starting to work and my first trip near beautiful Mount Fuji. Many things happened after that: I went live on the Swiss radio, spent one great month working in my company, and found a new apartment where Jack and I will move next […]

Japan Virtual Tours – Beautiful Gems around Mount Fuji

Hi everyone! How are you? I almost finished my second working week in Tokyo after a three days holiday (Monday was Labor Thanksgiving Day). The short trip will be the topic of this article. You can read all day-by-day updates I dedicated to my first week from the posts on my social media. Enjoy before […]

Inside Japan – Setting Up Your Japanese Life as a Student or Employee

Hello everybody! How are you? I am still in quarantine with Jack in our cute Japanese apartment. It is going well, with its normal ups and downs. I put away the luggage, set my “home workstation”, then remotely managed to talk to my company, the city office, and opened a bank account by mail. So, […]

Inside Japan – Back to Tokyo: PCR Tests, Flights, and Quarantine

Hello everybody! Hope everything is fine. As I wished in my last article, I am writing from my Tokyo apartment, where I am currently in quarantine with Jack. If you are in Europe, please stay safe and wear a mask, getting Covid should not be a pleasant experience. I luckily tested negative, so I was […]