Today was our day to go explore outside of Tokyo – we planned a day trip to Mount Fuji with a tour group. We were up by 7am and jumped on the subway at 8am to make it to the pickup location for by 8:45 -The LOVE sign 🙂 We had a full size bus at full capacity. All non-Japanese riders. Weather wise it was the perfect temperature with no clouds. The tour guide...
Read MoreNear the temple is an area in Tokyo called Kappabashi. It is the place to go to get kitchen stuff. From pots and pans to knives and even restaurant type stuff. There are people offering to zip you around and of course, we had to stop for a photo. The really neat thing to see was the ‘fake food’. Everywhere you go in Tokyo, the restaurant will showcase...
Read MoreAfter breakfast we headed for a little walk to visit the Sensō-ji Buddhist Temple. It’s not just any temple… It is old (the original was constructed in the 600s and is the most widely visited spiritual site in the world with over 30 million visitors annually. It was about a 25min subway ride for us to the opposite side of town. When we stepped out of the...
Read MoreHad to zip out to the 7-Eleven store to get pancake mix and thought I would share a little about these amazing stores. Did a quick video for you below. For reference, there are 4 7-Eleven stores within about 3 minutes of us just towards the grocery store. We are the X and the circles are the stores. Of course with some many stores, there are trucks restocking them...
Read MoreNot much happened over the last few days, Kaelyn had castings and I worked. We did take time to go the parks with Tammy after school work was done. We stopped at the local ‘everything’ store. Best way to explain it is that it’s like walmart only smaller. It is 6 floors and carries a huge variety of things. Best part for Tammy is the fish tank at...
Read MoreMami @ CDU where Kaelyn worked sent over some typical Japanese candies her children enjoy. It was fun to enjoy them, make your own sushi...
Read MoreOn one of our visits to a local shrine, a local stopped us and talked for a bit. She was a teacher and was surprised to hear about ‘home schooling’. It’s not allowed here in Japan and all kids must go to school. In our neighborhood around 3pm we see many young kids dressed like this (all in fact). We’ve seen this girl a few times walking home...
Read MoreOn Saturday night (I guess Sunday morning) I woke to what I thought was an earthquake. The bed was shaking for 30 seconds or so. But I wrote it off in my head that I was dreaming, in a state of partial sleepiness and ignored it. HOWEVER, today I woke at my normal early hour (so I can action any items before end of day back in EST timezone) and was working for a few...
Read MoreTime to introduce Tammy to conveyor belt sushi. Plus, we really haven’t had much sushi since we’ve been here. We headed out to Shibuya and unlike the conveyor belt sushi in Shangai which is literally a conveyor belt that you take the plate you want, this one they custom make the food based on the order you make on the tablet. We had a 45min limit and...
Read MoreWe had another slow start with a yummy breakfast of pancakes and fried potatoes. Around noon we headed out to visit the Zōjō-ji Temple. We walked again and first stopped at the Tokyo Tower. We were going to go up the tower but the high one was closed so we decided to just keep on to the next destination. Look, even their traffic cones look like the tower! After...
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