I woke up this morning to what I thought was Emi up early and  to my surprise it was her mom, Momojun, making me a Japanese breakfast. This consisted of Shama? fish, rice, soup, cucumbers and Tofu with greens. I was very appreciative and gave her a big hug. Emi was still kinda sleeping but she heard our conversation and said we did well. Em...

Tämä Okinawan visiitti alkaisi sitten olla tässä ja ei kun ylös, ulos ja lentokentälle ...mikä onkin aina hyväksi havaittu kaava! Otettiin bussi tästä hotellin alhaalta kohti lentokenttää ja tällä kertaa olin valmiina kohtaamaan Okinawan busseissa vaanivan, karmivan, tuomiopäivän lippumasiinan. Keräsin nimittäin koko viikon, hullun kiilto silmis...

Okay...we didn't quite start our travel blog like we wanted to because we couldn't find a connection!  Anyways, after 12 hours of flying, we finally made it to Japan Monday evening on Dec.17.  It is now Thursday morning and Ray and I are sitting in Starbucks while we have our americano and cappachino.  He's planning our last full day in Tokyo wh...

*phew* We were pretty tired it seems and sleept until past 2 PM. I needed a while to upload all the photos. Afterwards we had some cup noodles and went to Shibuya. Shibuya is one of the night life centers of Tokyo. You would not believe the amount of people there past 8 PM. It is also rumored to be one of the places to get hooked with someone fr...

Took 30 hours to get here from Santiago with a 4 hour stop-over in LA. Plus, the time difference was something like 15 hours, so I spent the first 3 or 4 days not only jet-lagged but run-down too and spent a good proportion of my time with a sore-throat, mild headache, much coughing, and feeling very tired. Tokyo produced quite a few surprises, ...

I had a fun day out on my own yesterday in Tokyo, first starting in the Akihabara (sp) electronics district, where I was on the hunt for a new digital camera. The cameras were cool, and numerous, but I didn`t see any Chinese-type deals. I was happy to see that I actually paid less for my video camera back in the States than they were selling the...

The plane arrived early in the morning at Tokyo Narita airport, where I took some time to make sure of travel arrangements to get to Asakusa where I was staying and to try and miss the rush hour. I got a JR Limited Express train bound for Ueno (1,000JPY) and changed at Aoto for Asakusa. It was raining when I found the Khaosan Hostel which is qui...

July 20 -- I've not spotted an Elvis impersonator yet during my two weeks in Japan. Not yet. But I did see the next closest thing today: Elvis sideburns. This 50-something businessman dressed to the nines sported the look. Some things don't need a translation. He looked a bit silly (and you can say that in any language, thank you very much.) ***...

The ANA flight to Narita was pretty nice. There was no one in the middle seat, so there was plenty of room. The arrival at Narita was easy. We landed at 15:10 and by 15:50 I was on the airport limousine bus to Shinagawa. The bus took about 1.5 hours on the Higashi Kanto Expressway. The traffic got heavier around Urayasu-shi, on into the city. Th...