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Hello! We are having a great time in Japan, I don't have time to write in detail about everything we are doing, but I'm posting some photos and I'll put captions on a few.
The first 2 days we stayed at a very nice hostel in Asakusa, Tokyo, called the Khaosan Samurai hostel. About $50 a night for the two of us and the accomodations were very clean, and the staff very friendly.
We found a little bakery to eat at in the morning called "Tom Tom's"
We rented bicycles ($2 dollars a day) and cycled all the way from Asakusa to Ueno to a small obscure park in Akihabara, then back.
Hilary was a total trooper.
For our emergency rations we bought a loaf of raisin bread at the bakery. To our horror, when we busted it out of the pack at the park, it was SWEET BEAN bread, instead of raisin bread. We choked it down (I threw most of the beans to a nearby pidgeon)
The cheap meat is the low fat stuff.
That's roughly $50 dollars per 100 grams of meat. Hope it's worth it.
The toursit book calls that yellow blob ontop of the building a large golded "object" but it's actually a sculpture of "poo" because for some reason that's suppost to bring luck.
From the top of the hostel. We did our laundry.
We called up some friends Hilary made in Germany - Shataro and Yuko. "Hey! By the way... we're in Tokyo right now..." They were surprised. We had a great time with them.
Here is Pearl, we also had a great time with her. She is going to art school in Ueno now.
After Pearl, we met up with Saki. We went to Shinjuku, to the top of this building where you get an idea of how big Tokyo is.
We then headed to Sendai, where we made a beeline to the "Library Hotel" (recommended by Dr. Biwa's wife). It was really nice, and they gave us cool pajamas, which Hilary is modeling here.
On Sunday, we went to Grace Chapel. They went to a beautiful rose park in Yamagata for the service. Here is Hilary with the older girls in the church - Senna, Megumi and Motoe
Eriya! We got to hang out with him on Sunday. Here he is on a zipline at the kids park.
An old lady in a dancing troupe motioned for Hilary to join. She was a star, doing all the motions. All the ladies were totally thrilled.
Here's the church!
We walked over to my old apartment, after church. We climbed up to my perch on the roof...
We also walked over to the Bible-reading clubhouse
Here's the dancing crew that practices infront of the windows every night
These are Mutsu apples being sold for $2 a pop
Yesterday we went to Yamadera
Hilary was a star again, it's a long ways up
We took a little detour to my secret cliff spot, discovered with Myron
There's something about pretty girls & mountains...
Hilary's "Tourist" shot of me
Last night we went to an incredible restaurant with Dr. Biwa and his wife. The food was gorgeous, and was probably swimming only a few hours earlier...
The first 2 days we stayed at a very nice hostel in Asakusa, Tokyo, called the Khaosan Samurai hostel. About $50 a night for the two of us and the accomodations were very clean, and the staff very friendly.
We found a little bakery to eat at in the morning called "Tom Tom's"
We rented bicycles ($2 dollars a day) and cycled all the way from Asakusa to Ueno to a small obscure park in Akihabara, then back.
Hilary was a total trooper.
For our emergency rations we bought a loaf of raisin bread at the bakery. To our horror, when we busted it out of the pack at the park, it was SWEET BEAN bread, instead of raisin bread. We choked it down (I threw most of the beans to a nearby pidgeon)
The cheap meat is the low fat stuff.
That's roughly $50 dollars per 100 grams of meat. Hope it's worth it.
The toursit book calls that yellow blob ontop of the building a large golded "object" but it's actually a sculpture of "poo" because for some reason that's suppost to bring luck.
From the top of the hostel. We did our laundry.
We called up some friends Hilary made in Germany - Shataro and Yuko. "Hey! By the way... we're in Tokyo right now..." They were surprised. We had a great time with them.
Here is Pearl, we also had a great time with her. She is going to art school in Ueno now.
After Pearl, we met up with Saki. We went to Shinjuku, to the top of this building where you get an idea of how big Tokyo is.
We then headed to Sendai, where we made a beeline to the "Library Hotel" (recommended by Dr. Biwa's wife). It was really nice, and they gave us cool pajamas, which Hilary is modeling here.
On Sunday, we went to Grace Chapel. They went to a beautiful rose park in Yamagata for the service. Here is Hilary with the older girls in the church - Senna, Megumi and Motoe
Eriya! We got to hang out with him on Sunday. Here he is on a zipline at the kids park.
An old lady in a dancing troupe motioned for Hilary to join. She was a star, doing all the motions. All the ladies were totally thrilled.
Here's the church!
We walked over to my old apartment, after church. We climbed up to my perch on the roof...
We also walked over to the Bible-reading clubhouse
Here's the dancing crew that practices infront of the windows every night
These are Mutsu apples being sold for $2 a pop
Yesterday we went to Yamadera
Hilary was a star again, it's a long ways up
We took a little detour to my secret cliff spot, discovered with Myron
There's something about pretty girls & mountains...
Hilary's "Tourist" shot of me
Last night we went to an incredible restaurant with Dr. Biwa and his wife. The food was gorgeous, and was probably swimming only a few hours earlier...
posted by tmm at
6:08 PM
4 Comments:
Ah, brings back so many memories...
So did you talk with Shataro and Yuko in English, German, Japanese or all three? Thanks for putting up all the pictures, Tim---we loved looking at them. Noah noticed that you got a haircut since last time we've seen you.
love you guys!
Sarah
Tim--Thanks. Looks like you found your camera. Made it back from DC ok. --dad
Wow thanks for all the comments, sorry I'm replying so late, we didn't have internet for a few days.
Myron - yeah, unfortunately the cool tree on top of the rock died, but things were pretty close to how you remember them (without the snow)
Sarah - Yeah, all 3! Mostly German though, because everyone except me understood German, and I was happy just to hang
Dad - yeah, really happy about finding the camera, glad you got back ok
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