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Title: Tokyo Vacation


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Tokyo Vacation
  • Danielle Devlin

2
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

5
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)

10
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)

11
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

15
Day 6 cont.
  • Have Fujimamas (14.00) delivered to Hotel

16
Day 7 (Sun July 10th)
  • Bonsai park (free)
  • Tea ceremony
  • Dedicated to art and growth of miniature trees
  • Extensive guided tour

17
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)

21
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
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