Category: Japan
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Futuristic Dining Adventure!
Yall. YALL. We found a great food delivery system. You order on an iPad, and the plate zips out and stops right in front of you. Then you take your plate and press a button to send it back. SO fun! (Also maybe a threat to my job but whatever…)
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Robot Adventure!
We made it to Robot Restaurant! You get your tickets across the street, and then led through this hallway mirror, up some loud, wacky stairs and into a waiting room that has gold shells for chairs, colors, mirrors, lights and chandeliers everywhere. There were two robot musicians playing jazz, the best Japanese toilet so far in…
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Tokyo Drifting
For the rest of our stay in Japan, we were at the Super Hotel! It was very no-frills, and the check-in is on the second floor – so when we walked in the door and were greeted by buttons and an elevator, for a shining moment we thought it was going to be a robot hotel!…
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Ryokan Adventure!
We got on the bullet train for about an hour ride north of Tokyo, hopped on a shuttle in a tiny town for an hour ride – and our van died going up the mountain! It was pretty high, with snow still on the mountain tops and about 55-60 degrees when we got there. Another…
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Green Tea & Geisha
Today we had the best sushi so far. We aren’t even sure what we had and it was still my favorite! One of the pieces had what looked like grated cheese on top – it definitely wasn’t a diary product, but we still aren’t sure what it was. Some of it was boxed sushi, which…
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Nightingales & Noodles
This morning, we got up early to try and beat the tourist crowds to the bamboo forest. We didn’t beat all of them, but it still wasn’t too bad. Then we walked around the residential neighborhood behind the bamboo forest. We came upon a pond with a shed-sized shrine, and we’re walking toward it when…
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A Kimono Forest in Kyoto
After a two hour ride on the bullet train to Kyoto, a couple of stops on the local metro, and a twenty minute walk through the most tourist-congested area I have ever been in (about 20% turned up from even the busiest days in Estes Park), we got to a quiet, tiny cul-de-sac and still…
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Karaoke Adventure!
After the baseball game, we were headed home to a tiny, tiny apartment we got for the night – it had two sets of bunk beds and not much else (advertised as sleeping six?!). Not wanting to go straight to bed, and not a lot of room we looked for a place to have a…
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Baseball Adventure!
We picked up our baseball tickets at a Japanese post office, where they were sent from the guy John bought them from (using a stubhub-like service). John showed him his ID and a sentence in Japanese on his phone that the guy typed in an email – voilà! Succesfully navigated the Japanese postal system (I…
