On New Year`s Day, we took a flight to Tokyo`s Narita Airport. We booked a hotel with traditional Japanese rooms. We have one room about the size of a bedroom. Three futons take up the whole room. Around the hotel, we wear slippers that the hotel provides instead of our normal shoes. Here, it`s already your tomorrow.
We went to Ueno Park and visited the Tokyo National Museum inside the park.At the museum, we saw 11 of Hiroshige's 53 Stages on the Tokaido Road and some samurai armor and helmets(top left). When we went outside, we saw people doing a lion dance(bottom right) because of the new year. Then we went to a temple to see the paintings of the Tokugawa Shoguns. We were trying to find a Shogun called Yoshimune.
He was a character in the Ghost in the Tokaido Inn Series. They are about a boy named Sekei who is adopted by an important judge. Sekei helps the judge solve several mysteries. The most recent one is The Sword that Cut the Burning Grass. I think these books are great!!!
A little later, we took a train called the Superview Ordoriko to Shimoda. Shimoda is were Commodore Perry landed to open up Japan's ports. We stayed at the Rendaji Hot Springs Resort. The baths there were great!! The day after we arrived at Shimoda, we took a gondola on the Shimoda Ropeway to a mountain. There, we saw Shimoda Harbor. On the observation deck was a signpost(top right) that showed how far New York, Mt. Fuji, Tokyo, and others places were.
We went to Ueno Park and visited the Tokyo National Museum inside the park.At the museum, we saw 11 of Hiroshige's 53 Stages on the Tokaido Road and some samurai armor and helmets(top left). When we went outside, we saw people doing a lion dance(bottom right) because of the new year. Then we went to a temple to see the paintings of the Tokugawa Shoguns. We were trying to find a Shogun called Yoshimune.
He was a character in the Ghost in the Tokaido Inn Series. They are about a boy named Sekei who is adopted by an important judge. Sekei helps the judge solve several mysteries. The most recent one is The Sword that Cut the Burning Grass. I think these books are great!!!
A little later, we took a train called the Superview Ordoriko to Shimoda. Shimoda is were Commodore Perry landed to open up Japan's ports. We stayed at the Rendaji Hot Springs Resort. The baths there were great!! The day after we arrived at Shimoda, we took a gondola on the Shimoda Ropeway to a mountain. There, we saw Shimoda Harbor. On the observation deck was a signpost(top right) that showed how far New York, Mt. Fuji, Tokyo, and others places were.
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Sounds neat. :) I've never been to Japan. I discovered recently that I like sashimi and sushi (but not the rolls with the seaweed), and that I'm not allergic to them. The japanese are precise enough with their sesame seeds that I could probably manage a visit one day.
Andrea
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