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On Friday we said goodbye to Tokyo to head to Kyoto on the Shinkansen (bullet train – technically "new trunk line", but that's pretty boring). These fast trains (about 2.5 hours for our trip) join lots of major cities (and other areas) of Japan and are
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On Thursday we went to a cat rescue cafe. A cat cafe is a place where you basically just lie around have a drink and pet cats. There were also some jingley toys for them to play with and really, that's all we did there. The rescue bit
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On Thursday morning, our last full day in Tokyo, we went to the home of some friends of a friend of friends who had invited us. We didn't take any photos, but we had a nice visit with them! For lunch, we went to a teishoku (set meal)
Haiku
Haiku time again... Day 127 • 9 Jan • Los Angeles Games, pizza, ice cream: A change in birthday plans for The new nine-year-old. Day 128 • 10 Jan • Los Angeles to Tokyo There's a day missing Somewhere in here, and I don't Know where it got to. Day
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On Wednesday we headed down towards Yokohama for the day (about an hour on the train – most of our excursions around Tokyo have been 20 to 60 minutes on various trains). Our first stop was the Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum. An awesomely niche museum all about the history and variety of
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On Tuesday we used up the remainder of our Klook cash (and some real cash) to do a sushi making class. As far as we could make out, the class is run in a little out-of-the-way sushi restaurant on the fourth floor of an unassuming high rise. We were joined
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On Monday, our second full day in Tokyo, we had lunch at a soba (buckwheat noodle) restaurant near us. Somehow we managed to decipher the menu (thanks to Google Translate) and order some meals despite barely having a word in common with the elderly lady serving us (i.e. she
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On our first full day in Tokyo, we woke up thinking it was Saturday but subsequently realised it was Sunday. I'm sure part of our confusion was due to having crossed the International Date Line during our flight and thus having leapt forward in time, but the bigger