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... wars with everyone until we arrived back at our hotel which is where we sit now with some cans of Asahi beer and some Animal Planet on the TV :-) Tomorrow we get the bullet train to Kyoto which will be our base for our remaining 4 days here in ...
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... in Tokyo was very efficient, bags waiting for us by the time we got through a quick queue at passport control. Picked up the Japan Rail passes that will be scooting us around for the next week (thanks Helen!) and got on the Express Train to the city. Now ...
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... also had a bidet. More on that later. Breakfast was also included. After settling in we walked around. The Oakwood Apartments, where we were originally going to stay, was literally across the street from the Tokyu. We ate at the ...
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... . I figured in everything except ---- swine flu. To make a very complicated story short, our Tokyo residence, The Oakwood Apartment, canceled our reservation 48 hours before we were due to take off because of swine flu reported somewhere in ...
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... . In the end we decided to hit Shibuya when we came back through Tokyo on Saturday. That decided, we visited the Oakwood Apartment again to give our gift to Ryoho Tajima. Ryoho is the most helpful person I've ever encountered in the ...
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... Kaoru to confirm that we were still on for meeting later that afternoon and set off for the day's planned events. First stop: The Oakwood Apartments to see if Ryoho is there. She wasn't so we planned to come back the next day. Ryoho was ...
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Aah Tokyo...what a nice, peaceful, down to earth ...
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A smooth ride o the bullet train and 2 and a half hours later we're in Tokyo! Shinjuku Station apparently has 60 exits....finally found our ...
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... Pacific Combat Zone in time for the 1pm tour. The George H.W. Bush Gallery basically starts with some background information on Japan and earlier conflicts they have had, then on to a visual and audio presentation about the bombing of Pearl Harbor, ...