Tag: Japan
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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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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…
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Flowers & Fish
Because of our, ahem, early bedtime, we all woke up at about 3 am and decided to try for the fish market. We missed the tuna auction (seats are limited and rumored to basically be all taken by about 4), but wanted to walk around anyway. It’s basically a fend-for-yourself situation, since it’s a commercial…
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Tokyo First Impressions & Toilet Tales
Well it took 30 hours of travel, our first vending machine stop, and some friends at the konbini (the convenient store – they pulled out a phone book of maps (?) and got us on the right path) to get to the apartment. Sarah and Matt were already asleep and we were exhausted, trying to…
