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Welcome to Elly’s World! (Guide to ellylakes.com)

Welcome to my world! I suggest you to have a look to this short guide before scrolling or exploring around 😀 Benvenuti nel mio mondo! Vi consiglio di dare un’occhiata a questa breve guida prima di scorrere oltre o esplorare 😀 English & Italian Before starting, you need to know that every article in this […]

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 […]

Japan Virtual Tours – Ibaraki Prefecture Part II: Sea, Relax, and Autumn Vibes

Hey everyone, how are you? I am already back with a second chapter about Ibaraki! Do you remember my latest article about this beautiful prefecture? Well, we recently went back there to experience something new. Let’s go! Saturday: Oarai Beach Library, Hoshino Coffee, and Mito Art Tower On Saturday, we departed by car from Tokyo […]

Japan Virtual Tours – Road Trip Through Ibaraki Prefecture: From Giant Buddhas to Beautiful Flowers

Hello everybody, how are you? I left you with an article about my return to Tokyo, and now I am happy to say that my quarantine became just a memory, while Tokyo is out of the state of emergency! While on my Instagram I started posting pictures related to my Kochi series of articles, this […]

Inside Japan – Exit and Return to Japan as a Resident During COVID-19

Hi everybody! How are you? My first week of quarantine is almost over, I got used to the jet lag, I am fine. Not so much changed from before, since with my current job I have always been working from home. The weekends will be tough though, but I will take the time to write […]

Japan Virtual Tours – Road Trip Through Kochi Prefecture and Mysterious Iya Valley

Hello everyone, I hope you are all fine! Apologies for the hiatus, but the last period was intense! I also managed to go back to Switzerland to see my family and friends after 10 months. I am working remotely from there, and I will be back to Tokyo soon. Where were we? After Kochi City […]

Japan Virtual Tours – Kochi City Part II: History, Art, and Food

Hello everybody! Here we go with the second chapter about Kochi city. In the first one, we saw different sightseeing places, while here we will discover about history, art, and food of the city. At the end of the article you will find a possible visit timeline for four days. History and Art in Kochi […]

Japan Virtual Tours – Kochi City Part I: Sightseeing

Hi everyone! As promised, here is the first article dedicated to Shikoku! I have always dreamt about visiting this not so touristy part of Japan, and I must admit it was an interesting surprise. Let’s start with a first chapter about Kochi City, the capital of Kochi prefecture. Sightseeing in Kochi CityThere are so many […]

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 […]

Japan Virtual Tours – The Best Hanami Spots, Not Only in Tokyo!

Hello my beloved followers! I hope you are doing fine. Here the beautiful Sakura made their short appearance, and I talked about Hanami with Paolo Linetti and Fabio Bassi. Cherry blossoms will be the protagonists of this article, which I will update every time I discover a new Hanami spot! Kinds of SakuraBefore starting, I […]