This past February my family and I traveled to Tokyo, Japan for a two week, much needed, dream filled vacation. Traveling to Japan has always been on my husbands bucket list, and once I did more research on all of the lovely things Japan has to offer, it made perfect sense that this would be our first family vacation. We arranged to stay in Tokyo for the entire two weeks of our vacation. We realized that there was so much to experience, see and do, with the city being a perfect mix of Modern and Historic Japan - it was an easy decision to make. Don't get me wrong, we plan to come back and visit Kyoto, see (me) & climb (him) Mount Fuji, and experience the beauty of the cherry blossoms. For this trip, however, Tokyo was perfect, and at the end of it all, we barely scratched the surface. Two weeks was definitely not enough time to experience all that Tokyo has to offer.
Here are some of the things that we did during our two weeks:
- See the Ume (plum) blossoms
- Ueno Zoo
- Eating lots of sushi and ramen
- Visit the Samurai Museum
- Visit the Edo- Tokyo Museum
- Visit with Husband's friend from Tokyo
- See the Pokemon Centre
- Explore Tokyo some more
One of my regrets was not bringing out my DSLR camera at all during the entire time we were on holidays. I was both exhausted and burned out creative-wise that the thought of bringing it with me everywhere left me even more exhausted. So I didn't. And at the time, it was the best decision for me. Yet now, all I want to show you are AMAZING photos and all I have are iPhone photos. Please forgive me. Regardless, I hope you enjoy seeing our Japan.














Excuse the messy hair, but I had to pose with the police mascot!



We spent a lovely couple of hours with one of Brad's friends who returned back to Tokyo after visiting family in Alberta. He took us to an amazing French Bakery and the cakes were to die for. I ended up going for a layered crêpe, whipped cream, and fruit one - I must attempt to make it one day.






Walking under the Torii - traditional gates placed near shrines.








Shibuya Crossing - aka the largest intersection in all of Tokyo. I didn't realize that I was on this famous intersection until I was on it. I took many blurry photographs of my attempt to walk in the middle of it, however, this one, right before the action starts, came out clear. "They" say that during rush hour, thousands of people can cross this intersection every single time the light changes.
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That is a brief summery of our Tokyo, Japan adventure! I hope you enjoyed. Don't worry there will be more photos coming soon. I took a lot of photos of Disney Sea and Disneyland, the Ueno Zoo, Ume Blossoms, and the Shinjuku Gyoen National Gardens, so if any of those are of interest, stay tuned for more blog posts. If Museum photos are more up your alley, let me know and I will add that to my list of posts to write up. Also, if you have any questions about my photographs or experiences, feel free to ask, if I don't have the answer, my husband will!
We really enjoyed our trip to Japan. We started off with a too large of bucket list and eventually realized that we needed to add a few rest days to our crazy schedule. Who knew! ;) I think the only little regret that we found was that we didn't eat enough sushi during our stay. Luckily Husband is already planning to go to Japan again this year and we are trying to figure out a way to travel back to it as a family in the next couple of years. The more we look at our photos, the easier it is for us to get the travel bug back in our system and we are very excited at the possibility of being able to explore new and old places, and see Japan in full sakura bloom, as well as cross some of the other things off of our bucket list. If you have any recommendations for visiting Japan (things we must see, restaurants we must try out, etc), please let me know! I would love to hear all about them and make the ultimate visit trip to Japan.
ありがとうございます (arigatou gozaimasu - thank you very much!)
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