While my parents were here we took them to a bunch of awesome places. We went to the Open Air Museum in Hakone, one of my favorite places in Japan. This is Van Gogh. By Picasso There’s a huge tower… Read more ›
While my parents were here we went to a bunch of different places. We went to the Shrine of the 47 Ronin: My dad acted out the story for the girls- this is the well where they washed the head… Read more ›
We took my parents out to the Imperial Palace grounds. It was really beautiful. It’s always rained when we went previously, so we never went inside and looked around. The moat. The dolphin that used to be on the gate… Read more ›
While my parents were here we went to Tokyo Disneyland for the day. (They went for two days to celebrate their anniversary.) It was all decorated for Halloween, and was pretty fantastic. During the month of October, anyone can wear… Read more ›
Boro Ichi is a great big flea market that runs for two days in December and two days in January. There are over 700 stalls. We came home with a sword for Bruce, kokeshi dolls for the girls, and plenty… Read more ›
This is the last post, until I load the pictures on from my iPod and discover a whole bunch I didn’t post. Shoganai. (It is what it is.) We went to Disneyland with my parents during the Halloween season. The… Read more ›
More pictures from the last couple of months. From the grounds of the mausoleum of Tokugawa Ieyasu in Ueno Park: Massive alligator in Ueno Zoo. Fortune telling machine at the Kiyomizu Kannon Temple. Tiny kind of liked it. Displays from the… Read more ›
I realized today that I have pictures going back to at least October that I haven’t posted. So this is the first of a number of posts full of pictures. I’m going backwards in time- sorry about that, but it… Read more ›
Yesterday was a holiday in Japan, and so Bruce had the day off. He planned an amazing trip to Kamakura, where we were able to see 5Â different shrines/temples. We took a train down to Ofuna, where we got on a… Read more ›
Yesterday we took my parents to the Tokyo Tower and to Zojo-ji, a Buddhist temple complex nearby. I love this area. This is the Unborn Children Garden, where parents can make offerings to Jizo, the guardian of unborn children (miscarried, stillborn,… Read more ›