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It’s Monday morning, we’ve just had breakfast, and we’re about to head out for a day of wandering around in Asakusa. Here are some more random thoughts and observations, in no particular order: Tracie read my last posting and pointed out that we didn’t actually take the subway–we took the train. Japan has a subway [...]

For the moment I’m not going to try to catch up with the end of yesterday’s activities because there’s too much to cover today. Today our main goal was to see the Great Buddha (called Daibutsu in Japanese), a 11-meter tall bronze statue of Buddha near Kamakura. This excursion involved our first encounter with Tokyo’s [...]

It’s the morning of our third day in Tokyo. Yes, I’ve already fallen behind on blogging. I started writing an account of yesterday’s adventures yesterday evening, but we succumbed to fatigue and jet lag and fell asleep at about 7:40. We spent the day with a tour guide named Tamae. Tamae-san is an engaging young [...]

Yes, we have arrived. It’s about 8:00AM local time. We just came back from having breakfast in one of the several hotel restaurants. Our room is on the 20th floor of the Asakusa View Hotel. It lives up to its name; we have a spectacular view of the city, with Mt. Fuji dimly visible in [...]

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Tracie and I are going to Japan for a vacation at the end of this month. We (mostly she, honestly) have been planning this trip for about two years; suddely it’s about to happen. We depart on March 29. Here is our itinerary, with links to infomation about each place: • Mar 30- Apr 04: [...]