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All right. Let’s talk about the food. Everyone who heard we were going to Japan made some sort of sophisticated comment about the food here and, while I know enough about myself to realize I probably wasn’t going to reach that same conclusion, I was unprepared for this stuff. The picture above is from a […]

I’m sure I don’t need to tell you how massive Tokyo is. Without the GPS on my phone, I’d be lost constantly here. One day, coming back from a long trek, Ron and I had one of our heated “you’re an idiot” conversations about the location of our hotel as we literally sat on a […]

It’s important, if you’re going to dedicate one of your Japan days to trekking out to the Studio Ghibli anime museum, to bring along two people who have no interest whatsoever in anime. For me and for Grace, traveling to Miyakazi’s beloved home base to see still shots from Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle […]

Everyone said we would love the food in Japan and so I came expecting to find it to be just awful. It was a good mindset to have. Grace is surely going to roast me over this statement since she and Mikey went out last night, strolled around Shinjuku, found super-cute little alleyways to wander, […]