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This is post #12 of our Tokyo-Seoul trip for Monday, November 13, 2017. We awake to a grey morning, overlooking the arcing roofs of the convention center. We'd picked up some breakfast at An's Bakery last night, and share the loaf of strange bread and the bumpy bun, plus water. The advantage was that we… Continue reading Incheon and Songdo
This is post #11 of our Tokyo-Seoul trip for Sunday, November 12, 2017. We head down one more time from the elevator near our hotel to the train, and because of our sleuthing on our apps: Google Maps and Hyperdia, we managed to get a direct train to the airport. We find the post office… Continue reading Transit from Tokyo to Incheon, Korea
This is post #10 of our Tokyo-Seoul trip: Saturday, November 11, 2017.More on Instagram. Yes, it's now that time in every tourist's life when they have to do their laundry, if they are not lucky enough to have multiple suitcases or an expense-account travel budget. We locate one south of our hotel, and head back… Continue reading Laundry, Tokyo International Forum, Sushi and Electric Town
This is post #9 of our Tokyo-Seoul trip: Friday, November 10, 2017. Dave doesn't have to go in until later in the day, so we eat leftover bakery goods in our room and head out to another shrine: Nogi Shrine, chosen from one of those "Best Top Ten" web pages, the photographs having looked interesting.… Continue reading Nogi Shrine, Aki-Oka Artisan, and Yuzawaya Fabric Store
This is post #8 of our Tokyo-Seoul trip: Thursday, November 9, 2017.More on Instagram. This morning, Dave heads out to his meeting in the building by the Fish Market, and I get ready to go to Tomato Fabrics. I begin with our usual routine: walk up to the City Bakery, snapping photos of shop windows… Continue reading FabricTown and Yakitori • Tokyo, Japan
This is post #7 of our Tokyo-Seoul trip: part 2 of Wednesday, November 8, 2017. Meanwhile, this was the beginning to Dave's day: finding his way to the National Cancer Center, south of our hotel, near the Tsukiji Fish Market. And his day begins... We both find the rules about smoking in public to be… Continue reading Scrambling in Shibuya, to Dim Joy in Ginza
This is post #6 of our Tokyo-Seoul trip: part 1 of Wednesday, November 8, 2017. Today is the day I'd set aside to track down a Blythe doll in Tokyo. I was determined, equipped with a hot spot and working phone, to track this tiny shop, Junie Moon, and buy myself a doll. They are… Continue reading Blythe Doll
This is post #5 of our Tokyo-Seoul trip, for the second half of Tuesday, November 7, 2017, a continuation of the previous post. After walking back to the station, we are hungry and tired and maybe even a little bit hangry, so we both hit the gift shop looking for something to eat. It's a… Continue reading Kamakura, Part 2: Hasedera, and the Daibutsu of Kamakura
This is post #4 of our Tokyo-Seoul trip, for the first part of Tuesday, November 7, 2017. Just to remind myself: I am in a different country. Good morning, Tokyo. Today is Kamakura Day! We squared away our travel on Hyperdia, got ourselves ready and headed to City Bakery to get our breakfast to go.… Continue reading Kamakura • Part 1: Hokokuji, Jomyoji, and Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Temples
This is post #3 of our Tokyo-Seoul trip, for the second half of Monday, November 6, 2017. Suitably refreshed from our afternoon break, we head out again on this, our first day in Tokyo. When we left early this morning, many of the shops had their roll-down metal doors closed, so we didn't know what… Continue reading Tokyo: First Night in a New City
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