When the trip first got started, Chris was sticking with curry and Kalli was anxious to try more adventurous food. Then, Kalli got sick from some strange thing she ate, and lost her bravery. Here's a tasty dish of Japanese curry.
When Grandpa Bill came to Japan, he bragged about finding a $70 cantaloupe. Chris found one for $126. Must be the same cantaloupe since Grandpa came quite a few years ago.
Before you go to pray and worship, it's customary to wash your hands and mouth out of respect. You go to the fountains before approaching the shrines or temples and follow protocol.
Japan has beautiful gardens and parks. They also have millions of people and businesses. It's pretty remarkable how they are able to incorporate the old and new.
Some of Japan's Architecture. They just build up and up! Last picture has Chris in it. He's pretty small compared to the Shrine entrance.
We arrived in Tokyo on April 23rd at about 1:30 pm. It took about an hour and a half to get to Tokyo since the airport is technically in a totally different city (Narita). Once in the city (Tokyo), we took another train to Shinjuku station which was about a 15 min. walk to the apartment that we rented (if you know where you're going). One thing that we learned pretty quickly, is that Japan is not very tourist friendly. They don't really have maps in English or western characters, and a lot of the streets in Japan don't even have names. (We were told that the reason many streets in Japan don't have names is because they used GPS coordinates) We finally arrived to the apartment that we found on Craigslist after getting help from about 5 Japanese people with broken English.
