Tag: Tokyo
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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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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…
