Exploring the Ikebukuro Neighbourhood – Episode 8

One of the big draws for us to pick a single place to call home while on these longer trips is to get the chance to settle into a neighbourhood and call it home. Get familiar with the area, how to navigate it, finding little short cuts, discovering a favourite local restaurant or cafe are…

Karaoke With Friends – Episode 7

It just so happened that our really good friends from back home were on their very first trip to Japan while we were on ours, and our schedules aligned in Tokyo. We decided to meet up for an evening out in Shibuya to introduce them to karaoke and proper Japanese tonkatsu. This meant I’d have…

Visiting Gōtokuji Temple – Episode 6

It took until our fifth full day in Tokyo to finally get out to see a new sight. Until then we’d been hunkered down waiting for Typhoon Hagibis to pass, exploring our neighbourhood and making a return visit to Meiji Shrine. We originally planned to visit this spot the day after Hagibis but were not…

Living a Dream – Episode 5

One of the things we were both extremely excited about when getting the chance to live in Tokyo was having a kitchen. Yes, we know that might be a little odd to some of you, but we were excited. On all our previous trips to Japan, well on any trip to anywhere really, we always…

Exploring Ikebukuro Station – Episode 4

For once we managed to plan ahead and take advantage of a holiday to give us a nice long weekend to start our remote work stint. It’s always nice to have an extra day to get adjusted and settled before the work week begins. The holiday was Canadian Thanksgiving and we were kind of chuffed…

Meiji Shrine After a Typhoon – Episode 3

Late the night before Typhoon Hagibis had passed, and we had no idea what destruction, if any, it had left behind in the streets of Tokyo. I went up to our roof top terrace for some fresh air and to look at the view. The storm had left behind nice cool fresh air and a…

Riding out Typhoon in Japan – Episode 2

As you saw last week, we did manage to make it to Tokyo and get situated in our Airbnb before Typhoon Hagibis hit on Saturday. We’ve been in Tokyo during typhoons in the past, but those more or less just amounted to a lot of heavy rain. We were still able to go out and…

Racing a Typhoon to Japan – Episode 1

We’re super excited to be starting a new series of Working Remote. A series where we take you along on a trip balancing working with exploring a location some where in the world. Part of our excitement of this series is that we finally managed to make Tokyo a working remote destination. Japan is definitely…