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Tokyo – Day 3 1 month, 2 weeks ago · View
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This morning we headed for Nara via the Shinkansen and the light rail from Kyoto. We walked about a kilometer and a half to Nara Park, where there are many temples and many sika deer. We walked through parts of the park (and the many deer) to get to Tōdai-ji, a buddhist temple that is the [...] -
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Today was a relatively quiet day. We got up early to catch the Shinkansen back to Nagoya. We intended to go to Nara in the afternoon, but decided to put that off until tomorrow, do to lots of rain. We went to a ramen restaurant for lunch, where I enjoyed some noodles with a hard boiled [...] -
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First of all, I apologize for the lack of pictures. All of the pictures from this day are found on Facebook however, at: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.757351355235.2146141.58400452&type=3&l=a9e47e1550. This morning (March 29) we left the hotel and headed for the Meiji Shrine. The Meiji Shrine is a shrine to the Emperor Meiji (the first post shogun emperor) and this year they [...] -
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This morning we left Nagoya and took the Shinkansen to Tokyo. In Tokyo we headed on the light rail to Shinjuku, where we grabbed lunch. For lunch I had another fried pork cutlet (I can’t remember it’s actual name, with two chicken and onion sticks. It came with cabbage, a bowl of rice, and a bowl [...] -
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Yesterday morning we headed to the train station and took the Shinkansen to Osaka, Japan’s third largest city (about the size of Chicago, Nagoya is 4th, which is about the size of Houston, and Kyoto is 7th, about the size of Phoenix). The train ride took about 15 minutes longer then the train to Kyoto (which [...] -
Today we left the hotel around 9 AM, and got some breakfast at the train station. After breakfast, we headed to Kyoto. We used the Shinkansen (or bullet train) to get to Kyoto. The Shinkansen had seats that were bigger then airplane seats, and had a snack cart. It also took us through some of Japan’s [...] -
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Today we decided to head to Nagoya Castle which is several subway stops away from our stop. On the way to the subway station we stopped and had some breakfast at a Japanese Denny’s. I had a sunny-side up egg served over cabbage with bacon (which is slightly different from our bacon), rice, miso soup, and [...] -
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This morning Nick and I left the hotel around 7:30 local time. We headed for the subway station and I noticed that there were a lot more people out on a Saturday morning then there was on a Friday night. Perhaps there is less sleeping in on weekends here. We headed for the Sakae district of [...] -
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The flight to Japan was very long. They served a meal almost immediately after I flight took off, at which point I wasn’t particularly hungry. I passed on the meal, which turned out to be my mistake, as it was a while before there were any additional foods to eat. Unfortunately they turned down all the [...] -
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Today in Arkansas, Tennessee, and Kentucky it rained. We left our hotel after grabbing a quick bite shortly after 8 this morning. It was raining, not overly hard, but with lots of traffic it wasn’t that much fun. I realized that people in Arkansas have not discovered the turn signal in their vehicles yet either. I [...]
Friday morning we woke up and headed for the Shinjuku Gyoen Garden. The Garden will be very busy soon once all of the cherry blossoms show up. As it is now, it is just a nice park with lots of paths to walk (and we walked around the park for a while). 
