Category: Tokyo Day Trip
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Napa Valley Marathon 2016 Recap
This past Sunday, I ran my first marathon in 11 years! It was the culmination of a pretty awesome training program. I was really happy that I stuck with the 18 week program and it’s all due to having an incredible training partner. I never would have done it on my own, which I’ll be…
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The Amazing Jogasaki Coast
Bliss! Photo by SMS SMS and I decided to go to Jogasaki this weekend. It’s a piece of the coastline on the Izu peninsula, the next peninsula over from Miura where Yokosuka is located. SMS has been climbing around here a few times and he’s brought back such beautiful photos that I was really hoping…
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30 Hours in Kyoto!
Bamboo Forest, Arashiyama Sagoy! I am very impressed with SMS and I! Two weeks ago, my friend Marissa wrote to me to let me know that she and her husband were going to Kyoto. We worked it out so that we could meet up so SMS and I headed off to Kyoto for what ended…
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Hakone: Owakudani and Venetian Glass Museum
Framing flowers…brilliant! After our wonderful breakfast, it was time to check-o out-o. No, the “o’s” are not meant to be annoyingly cutesy. Japanese has a lot of foreign words that they Nihongo-ize the pronunciation. This can sometimes be a dangerous thing since it occasionally makes me feel like I know more Japanese than I do.…
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Hakone Getaway
SMS and I decided to get out of town in celebration of our 1 year anniversary! Sagoy! It simultaneously feels way longer and way shorter than 1 year. So much happened in a year’s time yet I still feel like we’re the two crazies who barely knew each other but decided to take a trip…
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Giant Slides and Japanese Grills!
This weekend was filled with local mini-adventures, really good food and fun times with friends. The weekend started a little early since SMS and I went out to lunch on Friday. We went out to the 16 and I decided I wanted to try the famous Katsu place. I had heard about it when I…
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Grilling, Japanese-style
SMS and I are having a great time on our first real weekend home! An added bonus is the extra time to relax since it’s a holiday weekend. On Friday night, we went to Yakinikuya Sakai. It was a coal-grill yakiniku restaurant with great views overlooking the bay. We had an assorted meat plate, vegetable…
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Last Weekend!
The weekend was pretty mellow. I recovered from traveling, cleaned up the house and made one field trip up to Yokohama. My friend Adam organized a huge birthday adventure starting with “Oktoberfest” in Yokohama followed by the Robot Restaurant in Tokyo. I was on call so I met up with everyone in Yokohama to be…
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Day 8: Sayonara, *sniff!*
Whah! The vacation was awesome but too short. I love hanging out with Mom and Dad but now it was time for them to go to DC. I was very sad to see them go! They took the Airport Limousine bus to Narita. Their JR passes had expired and the bus is super convenient since…
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Day 7: Kamakura and Tokyo
The good weather was back! Not to be too boring in talking about the weather but it is so much nicer to be a tourist on a sunny day! This was our last full day (v. sad) and we took a day trip to Kamakura. We were supposed to go the day prior but I…
Portmanteau Suitcase 