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First Full Day in Japan
I should think about renaming this series “Eating Our Way Through Japan” because that’s pretty much what we did. The food scene of Japan is world-famous, justifiably so, and we tried our best to be worthy of it. The first day in Sapporo saw breakfast at the fish market, lunch at a grill-your-own place in… Continue reading
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On to Osaka
Notes from Wednesday May 9 2023: But first it’s time to say good-bye to the very comfy Strings Intercontinental Hotel. On the one hand it’s a huge generic corporate space, kinda boring to choose in a foreign country, but it was in a great location and I kind of like having the comforts of home… Continue reading
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Waking Up in Tokyo
Managed to sleep in ’till 6:15AM our first morning. Considering the giant time change, that was quite a victory. Maybe last night’s Japanese Whiskeys helped? 😀 In any event we leapt out of bed, anxious to get out & about. Tokyo’s obviously a gigantic urban sprawl but it has many many green spaces tucked in… Continue reading
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Touchdown Japan!
Woke up and grabbed the hotel shuttle to Terminal 1 ANA check-in. We felt very superior having only carry-on luggage, the airline employees kept asking where was the rest of our luggage 😀 We did see one poor person at the ANA ticket counter who was frantically trying to repack her bags–I guess one was… Continue reading