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Tokyo Day 27 – Schooling

Tokyo Day 27 – Schooling

By on Feb 27, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan (2018) | 0 comments

On 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...

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Tokyo Day 27 – Earthquake

Tokyo Day 27 – Earthquake

By on Feb 27, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan (2018) | 2 comments

On 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...

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Tokyo Day 25 – Genki Sushi in Shibuya

Tokyo Day 25 – Genki Sushi in Shibuya

By on Feb 25, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan (2018) | 0 comments

Time 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...

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Tokyo Day 25 – Zōjō-ji Temple

Tokyo Day 25 – Zōjō-ji Temple

By on Feb 25, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan (2018) | 0 comments

We 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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Tokyo Day 24 – Pizza Night

Tokyo Day 24 – Pizza Night

By on Feb 24, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan (2018) | 0 comments

Up to this point, we walked about 10km today. Not the best choice, but all I had to eat was a bowl of oatmeal and an apple (don’t worry the girls had several treats). The decision now was dinner and we opted to walk to Domino’s to pickup a pizza 1.5km away. Tammy and I left Kaelyn behind to shower and we bought 2 large pizzas – meat lovers and...

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Tokyo Day 24 – Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden

Tokyo Day 24 – Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden

By on Feb 24, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan (2018) | 0 comments

We took the subway towards Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden. Before leaving I checked out the park on google maps and thought I had found the right subway terminal to exit from. The subway station must have had 300 stairs up so it felt like. We almost passed out. When we emerged we were right across the street from the Japan National Stadium, it was used for the 1964...

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