My friend and I, who left Japan for Paris on May 7, 1992, visited the Disneyland Paris, which opened near Paris on April 12 last month. At that time it was called Euro Disney. Speaking of which, at the time, it was talked about whether Fre…

Since this hotel was near Montmartre, we had to pass several times near the Montmartre cemetery. By the way, according to the Japanese version of Wikipedia, It is said that great artists and cultural people such as Wenceslas Nijinsky, Edga…

Yesterday, I went to the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum to see "Courtauld Gallery Exhibition" in the cold. My focus on that day was Manet's work “Un bar aux Folies Bergère”, and I watched carefully in front of the work. At the beginning of …

The symbol of Montmartre is the Basilica of Sacre Coeur and the oriental white church on the hill is visible from the hotel, so my friends and I decided to aim for it. However, the road was more steep than I thought, and our breathing in t…

The photo is of a tour of the Chateau de Chambord, taking part in a tour of the Loire castle. I was holding an umbrella because it was raining. The interior of Chambord Castle has a large number of rooms and is vast and has a beautiful dou…

This photo was taken near the B & B hotel where we stayed, but there were many African residents around the nearest station. That's why my friend and I enjoyed exotic cuisine at a restaurant along the wide street in this photo. The first i…

Speaking of Paris, Notre Dame Cathedral. I also visited the cathedral as one of the foreign tourists and took a rest nearby (Photo ①). By the way, the Paris Metropolitan Police Department ( Photo ②) is in front of Notre Dame Cathedral, and…

Speaking of Paris, the Louvre Museum. My friend and I visited the Louvre Museum for the first time the day after arriving in Paris and talked about the hugeness of the museum, saying, “We can't finish looking at all the exhibits in three d…

My next destination with my friend who left London was Paris. The hotel in Paris is a B & B, a cheap hotel with a bed and breakfast, and there are many people in the Middle East who get on and off the subway station, which is a little far …

Isetan and Mitsukoshi, major Japanese department stores, entered the central city of London in 1991 where I visited. In Mitsukoshi, where my friends and I visited several times, there were more Japanese tourists than London customers. At t…

My friend and I headed to the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. Established in 1824, most of the exhibitions at the museum were free of charge, even for overseas travelers like us, and showed generosity that was unthinkable in Japan. N…

At the end of 1989, when the Nikkei average stock price was 38,915 yen and the market capitalization of shares listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange was 590 trillion yen, becoming the world 1st, the Japanese government at…

One of the highlights of the trip was watching a musical, and we lined up with Soho's half-price ticket counter on the day, but after a while we realized that there were no tickets for the musical we wanted to see. So we discussed whether …

On the second day of my stay in London, my friend and I took a train at Waterloo Station and headed for Windsor Castle. When we exit the station ticket gate, people who got small flags and cameras gather and wait for something. And when I …

The first time I went to London was at the end of April 1991, when the British Prime Minister replaced Margaret Thatcher with a young Tony Blair. At that time, with a friend who traveled to New York, with a trip of 3 nights in London and 3…

Jim Thompson House, main attraction of this trip, was not so far from Holiday Inn I stayed, so we decided to ride Samlow. Samlow, a convenient means of transportation in Bangkok at that time, was similar to a three-wheeled bicycle, and it …

We ate the first night of Bangkok at a Thai court fee restaurant that exists like a hideout in the downtown area . The restaurant was introduced in the food company's public relations magazine that arrived at the company I was working at t…

My friend and I went on a trip to Bangkok on June 23, 1990 with a plan of 4 days and 3 nights. At that time, Japan was in the midst of a bubble economy, and in the company I was working for, it was popular for female employees to make easy…

We aimed at a Japanese restaurant “Inagiku” in the basement of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, because beef was expensive in Japan at that time. If you ask for sukiyaki in the US in the dairy kingdom, you should eat plenty of beef. I thought I …

For the jazz live house "Blue Note" we went by bus to Washington Square and walked into the store with great expectations. The first thing I noticed was that the Japanese occupied the expensive seats close to the musicians. And, the inside…

The second New York Stock Exchange Findings, which was the aftermath of Black Monday in October 1987 last year, is a big difference from the last time it was the 1986 energy days, and it saw a less lively deal. Black Monday is a global sto…

The next three musicals we saw on the day's half-price ticket section of Times Square this time in New York. "CHESS" was drawn on the stage of a luxury hotel in Bangkok during the East-West Cold War, depicting love created between the west…

A trip to New York for 5 nights using GW vacation in 1988 also enjoyed the same friends as last time. This time the hotel was an elegant "Wellington Hotel" convenient to Broadway. What we decided prior to this trip is The first thing was t…

My friend and I enjoyed the last night in New York at a live of Willie Nelson at Radio City Music Hall at 50th Street, 6th Avenue. Willie Nelson is very popular in Japan at that time.Not only Casey Kasem's moderator, "American Top 40," but…

The New York Stock Exchange is called the capitalist center, but when we arrive, it reflects the economic boom at that time, or visitors from all over the world go from the entrance of the building to the opposite road It was in a long lin…

When we got up late the morning of the next day, when we left the Edison Hotel, a long procession came into our eyes. So when I asked the women in the line, "What is it?" "We can buy a day ticket for the musical at half price, so we are st…

Our trip to New York this time is a 3-night stay, the main purpose is to see museum visits, visits to the New York Stock Exchange, and to see the musical “The Phantom of the Opera”, which was well-received in Japan at that time It was. So …

After leaving the café, we encountered a majestic brass band followed by a funeral march followed by four cops spread stars and stripes, a black-painted hearse, and a uniform cop. I thought that I would encounter a majestic funeral march o…

After gazing at the glamorousness of Fifth Avenue, which we entered for the first time, we stopped at a large, glass-lined bookstore. I enjoyed the layout of various books in the sales floor, grabbed books such as art books, photo books, m…

I went to New York for the first time in early May of 1986. After enjoying the New Orleans Jazz Festival, I and my friends took a tour of Quebec, and the end was New York. We left our luggage at the popular Edison Hotel on Broadway and too…