Tag Archives: Tokyo

Leaving Tokyo and Travelling to Hakone

This morning we strolled around the gardens of the Imperial Palace a little more before leaving Tokyo. The gates opened at 9:00 AM and the scenery and flowers were quite amazing. The only disappointment was that we discovered there was … Continue reading

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A Mix of Old and New in Tokyo

Today, we did take a short bus ride today to see a few different sites. The cool thing our guide did was present some slides and pictures from his mobile phone on s flat screen TV. Much more effective than … Continue reading

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Found Where the Runners all Hang Out in Tokyo

Saturday is still a work day for many in Japan, so that was not a good long run day in Tokyo. So we decided Sunday would be our long distance run day. But where do all the runners in downtown … Continue reading

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Exploring Different Parts of Tokyo

Today, we had a great day learning how the subway, Metro, JR and train system works in Japan/Tokyo. In some ways it is very easy to learn, and in other ways, it was frustrating. There are at least 3 systems … Continue reading

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Exploring Tokyo

We spent our first day exploring around the area of our first hotel…and of course we started with an early morning run in downtown Tokyo near the Ginza district and the fish market. It was amazingly easy to run the … Continue reading

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Arrived in Japan

Flew on United out of San Francisco. Great flight…time passed by quickly. Watched the movie Nebraska. Bruce Dern should have won the Academy Award, but I digress… As recommended by many, we hit the currency exchange counters and ATMs to … Continue reading

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