Tokyo Vacation

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Tokyo Vacation

• Danielle Devlin

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Day 1 (Mon July 4th)

• Flight
• 845 roundtrip
• All Nippon Airways 9
• 14 hours overnight
• Depart 1230pm JFK
• Arrive 325pm NRT

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Day 1 cont.

• Japanese Railway from Airport to Hotel
• 14 day pass 400
• Arrive at all destinations mentioned by railway
• Hotel
• Check-in at Shiba Park Hotel
• 130.75 per night?1,699.80 total
• Free breakfast of fruit provided daily
• Free Mineral water daily (carry through trip to
  lower expense)
• Sleep off jet lag

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Day 2 (Tues July 5th)

• Visit Tsukiji Outside Market
• 1 of 4 largest in world
• Sells shellfish, meat, vegetables, and gourmet
  items (12.00)
• Bring food to Hama Rikyu Detached Palace Gardens
• Free
• Peony Garden?my favorite flower
• One of the pines is over 300 years old planted by
  Tokugawa

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Day 2 cont.

• Yanaka
• tatami weavers
• workshops selling washi paper (6.50/10 sheets)
• Dinner
• Seigetsu Restaurant (15.95)
• heart of the operation is the grill area
• set behind a protective plexiglass window to stop
  flying sparks
• skewers of chicken and fish cooking slowly over
  the charcoal pit
• jidori-yaki served with a delightful ume-flavored
  miso

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Day 3 (Wed July 6th)

• Day Trip 1
• Onsen (Japanese Hot Springs)
• Gôra Kadan Ryokan (9.22 student price)
• Use of outdoor springs and indoor bubbling pools,
  ranging in temp from 85-110 degrees
• Commune with old ladies even though I dont speak
  Japanese

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Day 3 cont.

• Eat at Owakudani
• black eggs boiled in volcanic water (7.63)
• It is the belief of the local people that each
  black egg you eat adds seven years to your life
• Travel back to Tokyo
• Eat at Las Chicas (16.21)

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Day 4 (Thurs July 7th)

• Star Festival (Tanabata Matsuri)
• Check out this Tanabata Matsurivideo
  clip(QuickTime Movie20seconds 935KB)
• Festival celebrates 2 lovers that were punished
  by the gods for failing to work due to their need
  to see each other
• The gods were lenient, and let the lovers unite
  annually on July 7th
• Eat at street vendor (crabmeat wontons and melon
  soda 7.63)

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Day 4 cont.

• Eat at Koya Ramen (popular with students)
• Shina-Soba (3.81)
• Ramen in rich broth that bubbles endlessly in
  huge caldron behind the long counter
• Attend The National Noh Theatre
• Sleeping is considered to be compliment to the
  performers
• Notice masks that will be on display at the Tokyo
  National Museum later in trip

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Day 5 (Fri July 8th)

• Visit Imperial Palace (free)
• Palace not open to visitors but stroll through
  grounds and gardens
• See Scavenger Hunt
• Eat at Aroyna Tabeta
• Combination shrimp curry and stir-fry platter
  (5.72)

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Day 5 cont.

• Visit Tokyo National Museum (9.22)
• See Scavenger Hunt
• Dinner at Museum Restaurant Hotel Okura Garden
  Terrace
• Stewed Beef with Noodles, Bread, Tea (17.44)

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Day 6 (Sat July 9th)

• Yasukuni Shrine (free)
• Take meal from Tsukiji Outside Market (12.00)
• Lined with Cherry trees
• Dedicated to more than 2 million people who have
  died for the emperor
• Analogous to Arlington National Cemetery
• Hall of Remembrance (also free, next to shrine)
• Military museum
• Tanks, torpedoes, locomotive from Burma railroad

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Day 6 cont.

• Have Fujimamas (14.00) delivered to Hotel

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Day 7 (Sun July 10th)

• Bonsai park (free)
• Tea ceremony
• Dedicated to art and growth of miniature trees
• Extensive guided tour

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Day 7 cont.

• Zoo (1.65)
• giant panda
• Komodo dragons
• Eat at Dachibin (4.25)
• Food of Okinawa
• Island style pork with goat cheese
• Papaya pickled in miso

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Day 8 (Mon July 11th)

• Kite museum
• 4000 traditional Japanese kites
• Also examples of other Asian kites
• Made of bamboo and washi paper with sumi ink
• Scenes of nature, kabuki, Hello Kitty
• Eat at Taimeiken
• The museum is on the 5th floor of the restaurant
• Omrice (fried rice enveloped in an omelet) (5.00)

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Day 8 cont.

• National Diet (just walk by, do not enter when in
  session)
• Parliament
• sessions of the House of Representatives taking
  place in the left side
• sessions of the House of Councilors in the right
• National Diet Library
• only archive of the legislative branch of the
  Japanese government
• Eat at Afternoon Tea Baker and Diner (17.25)

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Day 9 (Tues July 12th)

• (Day trip 2) Mt. Fuji
• Mt.Komagatake Aerial Cableway
• Ride an aerial cableway up and down Mt.Komagatake
  for a sweeping view of celebrated Hakone National
  Park
• Free with JR pass
• Eat at an open mountain hut at base of Fuji
  (3.83)

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Day 10 (Wed July 13th)

• Ginza
• Large shopping district
• Both new and hip as well as traditional
• Kimono Shopping
• Just looking, not buying
• Sell for thousands of dollars
• Japan Sword Shop
• Katana dating from the Heian period (794-1185)
• represented a warriors spiritual purity
• There are antique Samurai swords at this shop, as
  well as a variety of newer, cheaper replicas

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Day 10 cont.

• Eat at Ippudo (3.83)
• Spicy bean sprouts with garlic cloves
• Tasaki Pearl Gallery Tour (7.00)
• See the process of pearl cultivation
• Eat at Dai-Sushi
• Conveyor belt sushi shop
• Foie gras sushi (2.50)

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Day 11 (Thurs July 14th)

• Kabuki (takes all day) (39.50)
• From Edo period
• Archaic language
• Many fans recite it aloud however
• Traditionally enjoyed by peasants unlike Noh
• Dramas about life and love
• Women forbidden to act in them
• Bring food from market (12.00)

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Day 12 (Fri July 15th)

• Sumo Wrestling
• Grand tournaments called basho
• 18.00 for unreserved seat
• Only sport approved by shoguns that is not
  connected to killing people
• Supposed to be entertainment for the gods
• Eat at Owariya
• Cold Soba (Buckwheat Noodles) (2.54)

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Day 12 cont.

• At night
• Hakata Gion Yamagasa (free)
• Festival
• Each area of the city has its own car. They
  compete in a race against each other
• Eat street vender food
• rice and fish wrapped in seaweed (1.00)

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Day 13 (Sat July 16th)

• Sumida River Cruise (6.08)
• Enjoy a forty-minute boat ride from Hinode pier
  of Tokyo Bay to Asakusa
• The river was the most important waterway for the
  development of Tokyo.
• Asakusa
• Sensoji Shrine
• Traditional Craft Stalls
• Eat sembei from stalls (1.66)
• flavors like garlic, wasabi, hot pepper, shiso,
  plum, seaweed

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Day 13 cont.

• Spend last night seeing Samurai film at AMUSA
  Cinequanon
• (12.44)
• Zatoichi?revenge tale
• old master swordsman who conceals his adept
  warrior ability under the guise of a blind
  masseur with a cane
• various battling yakuza clans vying for dominance
• he crosses paths with a myriad of individuals a
  struggling farmer, her inept clown nephew, two
  masquerading geishas and a prideful ronin
• Eat candy and movie snacks (4.00)

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Day 14 (Sun July 17th)

• Flight home
• All Nippon Airways 10
• 12 hours and 45 minutes
• Depart 11am NRT
• Arrive 1045am JFK