May 9, 2018

"F" Today Makayla and I went full “tourist-mode” and followed a tour that worked its way towards Mount Fuji. The day started pretty early, so we learned how awesome 7-11 is here in Japan-land. I think I’m going to be addicted to Pocky. Hearty 7-11 meal Our tour bus took us on a highway heading westbound. I forget the name of this stadium There was a lot of hanging mist today - it gave off a pretty sweet Hallowe’en effect.

May 8, 2018

Firetruck logo has a doggo My sister Makayla is a firefighter in our glorious motherland of Canada, so we had to track down a Tokyo fire station to see how neat it is. Ain't nothing like trying to work while being photographed by two nerds Makayla and I care a little too much about infrastructure, so we noticed some other weird differences from the homeland - such as fire hydrants being entirely underground, but being visible by these big red poles:

May 6, 2018

I’m surprised by how much farmland there is considering that Japan is supposed to be a super-dense country. While landing at the Narita Airport, you’re greeted with a billion tightly-compacted rice fields. Everywhere that there’s an unfarmable small hill, you see trees and grouped houses. We took the “rapid line” train to Tokyo from the airport. When we activated our tourist-y “travel without charge on a ‘Japan Line’ train” tickets , we were verbosely informed that our tickets would not work on the automated ticket-scanning gates, and that we’d have to speak to go through a human-manned gate.