Takenotsuka Station Hotel Village
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From the East Coast to the Far East Coast
It's 7:30 Saturday Morning in the heart of Tokyo, everyone still must be working off their Friday night hangovers. For a city of 37.1 million people, there's not much for noise, a motorcycle here and there, the swoosh of the Shinkansens going by. Arriving by way of the Keisei skyliner from Narita, we flew by lush fields of green, and trees everywhere. Suddenly out of nowhere ...
Hot Mess
... and miles from the train station (I may actually not be exaggerating that one) to get to it, but I'll say it was very worth it. Gorgeous restaurant. Very quiet with a stream (with HUGE fish) all around the entire restaurant. They even have a tea house in the back where Yuka's mom tried to teach me a little bit about the tea ceremony. Our dinner was in a traditional Japanese style room where you take your shoes off and kneel around a small wooden table. I gave up on the ...
The Road to Singapore
... a nice guy brought his beer over and joined our table. He turned out to be none other than Captain Snoball (yes, that's really his name), the Captain of our flight. He filled us in on all the troubles and kept us laughing with many stories. He even introduced us to the 'pilot from Grand Rapids.' Captain Snoball was from Indiana and had nine children (all home schooled), and so had MANY stories. We all stayed until they closed the bar, then had a restful night in Japan.
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Missed the fish, but got the cats
... happy to walk out of there!
Shibu-yeah! In the evening we had a great dinner with Mac, a guy who was on our DPRK tour in Shibuya, home of more excellent Japanese-ness. We then did a mini-bar hop through Shibuya, frequenting bars where there is standing room only thus saving ourselves precious $$. In these places you only have to pay $8 for a glass of beer instead of the $11 you would have to pay if the beer came with a seat...
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De eerste wandeling...
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Deze ochtend voor het eerste Japans ontbeten. Voor het eerst gebruik gemaakt van het Japanse OV. En zo meer dingen voor het eerst in het Japans gedaan. Het is een beetje wennen, maar eigenlijk gaat dat best goed. Arigato (dankjewel) is het eerste Japanse woordje wat we kunnen zeggen. We komen er wel....
Onze wandeling ging door het business district, door een keizerlijk park en door een winkelcentrum. We ...
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