{"id":12814,"date":"2024-07-07T15:41:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T21:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/?p=12814"},"modified":"2024-07-07T15:41:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T21:41:51","slug":"travel-to-japan-and-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2024\/07\/07\/travel-to-japan-and-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel to Japan and Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After years of dreaming and months of planning, Ben and I travelled to Japan! Overall, it was an amazing trip and ended too soon. We feel like there is so much more we would have liked to see and do and eat. Ben is already thinking about a return visit! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had a direct flight from Denver to Narita. The fancy seats definitely made our long journey more restful. Immigration at Narita was a total mess – hot, unorganized, confusing, and packed with sweaty, over-tired tourists. After we got through immigration and customs we had to wait in a super long line for Pasmo train cards. I used my yen for to first time to get a cold drink from the vending machine, something I would do over and over the rest of the trip! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our first glimpse of Japan!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Soooo ready to get to the hotel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After a long train ride to Tokyo, we arrived in Ginza! The hotel was beautiful and comfortable the best shower I have ever experienced. I immediately fell in love with Japanese toilets too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Refreshed, we struck out on the town to see our neighborhood. I could have spent a lot longer browsing a stationary store called Itoya. I got a cute limited edition fountain pen and some pens for the kids too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A cute street sign near our hotel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Seiko watch tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Browsing Itoya (I think this was the 6th floor? or 7th?)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My apricot colored Kaweco sport pen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mario cart racers in the streets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I loved this building’s latticework design<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Prior to the trip I had wanted to eat at the Vampire Cafe if we had time. We realized it was now or never (our itinerary was packed!) so even though I had little appetite, we dived into the quirky theme restaurant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We were seated in a small table with thick velvet curtains<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My salad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ben’s pasta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mu fancy soda, I dried a rosebud as a souvenir, and it came with a mini-tote bag with their logo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Our spooky host bidding us goodnight as we escaped in the elevator. The staff were very good at staying in character and creating a mood. I was too shy to ask for photos during the dinner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After years of dreaming and months of planning, Ben and I travelled to Japan! Overall, it was an amazing trip and ended too soon. We feel like there is so much more we would have liked to see and do and eat. Ben is already thinking about a return visit! We had a direct flight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12814"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12849,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12814\/revisions\/12849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}