Many, many years ago (oh say 50 or so years), I traveled through Southeast Asia including some time Japan. So this was not my first foray into Asian territory. Ah, it was a different world back then. No internet for one thing. How did I do it without Google Maps? Starting our journey in rural…
Day: May 4, 2025
You know it’s time to go home when…
You’re too old to have fun at the gathering. Joining the group watching the robot statue makes you feel ridiculous. The park you’re walking through is meagre in comparison to the previous parks. The open shipping lane to the ocean seems adventurous. Ella is tired of waiting for you to catch up. You come across…
Japanese-style Korean (or Korean-style Japanese?)
Dinner had us stumped. There wasn’t much out in the Odaiba area which was our last destination. We opted to start the journey back home. We had to take a train to Shiodome and then transfer to the Oeida subway. At Shiodome station, we decided to ask Google what was in the area for food….
Unicorn Gundam
After a visit to the Sumida Hakusai museum, we wanted to explore an area we hadn’t seen yet. Being Tokyo, there were hundreds of neighborhoods as yet unvisited so really, it could be anywhere. Grubb wanted to head to Odaiba, an area by the bay. We had no inkling that on a fine Sunday afternoon,…
Hokusai highlights
For our last day in Tokyo we had beautiful weather to go along with the beautiful woodblock prints that are part of the collection at the Sumida Hokusai Museum. On Friday I talked about the exhibit at the Tokyo National Museum that featured Tsutaya Jūzaburō, master printer of the Edo Era. The most famous artist that…
Map of the Day, last day in Japan
Hotel -> Sumida Hokusai Museum -> Unicorn Gundam -> Shiodome -> Hotel Stay tuned. More details to follow on how we spent today, sadly our last day in Japan. Tomorrow (Monday the 5th), we leave Tokyo’s Haneda Airport at 17:00 (5:00 pm) and land at LAX on Monday the 5th at 11:00am. Isn’t that clever?…