The Japanese word for “living somewhere new”.

Moving to a new place is definitely stressful for everybody. Even if you’re just moving down the street into a new house, it can cause quite a bit of anxiety. Now, imagine you’re moving nearly 6,000 miles away, and starting a new job the next day…stressed yet? Yep, I thought so. Moving to Japan from England was definitely a scary adventure, but a totally worthwhile one, and one that definitely changed me as a person for the better. Right now I cannot imagine living anywhere else! So let me take you back to where all of this first started…

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The Japanese word for foreign people or “outsiders”.

Tokyo is a place of fantasy and mystery; an amalgamation of the old and ancient traditions crashing with the new wave of western impact, like a wave crashes on the beach. It is a constantly mesmerising experience to explore the streets of such a city. You cannot come to Tokyo expecting something that resembles London or New York. It is like every city put together at once, but then also nothing like anything else in the world. (more…)