At the beginning of May, during Golden week (a week full of holidays), we took the train about 2 hours away to climb Mt. Mitake. The countryside is so beautiful. My picture loader put all the pictures in backwards,… Read more ›
Back at the end of April we traveled about two hours out of Tokyo for a surprise. No one but B knew where we were going, and my goodness, was it a glorious one. We went to the tallest Buddha… Read more ›
We went to Tamagawa Park today. Z is carrying her lunch in her bag, Tiny is carrying her stuffed Pooh Bear. There were tons of these black and red butterflies around. Sometimes you need a sister’s help … Read more ›
We took my parents to Odaiba to gorge ourselves on pancakes and whipped cream. We succeeded in that, and also saw some other stuff. This is my favorite building. It’s from the future. The Rainbow Bridge, seen in such… Read more ›
Just for you. At Shinjuku Gyoen. This woman was setting up to take pictures of her doll amongst the blossoms. Apparently Tiny’s shirt choice was on trend. So many people come out for hanami. (Hanami= cherry blossom… Read more ›
Spring is here, which means flowers are here, which means I’m taking pictures. It also means that I’m moving pictures off my phone and finding all sorts of pictures I forgot were there. And so I post. These are not… Read more ›
Some shots of people from Motomachi Chukagai.
Let me begin with a story. We take the Tokyo Toyoko train line to get to the area we live in. At the very end of the line, the train has the possibility of switching to another line and going… Read more ›
We spent Christmas Eve day at the Tokyo Skytree because the girls wanted to show B the Christmas market set up at the base that reminded them of the Amsterdam Christmas market that we learned about in school. So we… Read more ›
Earlier in the week we took a trip up to Nagano. Nagano is about 150 miles north east of Tokyo, so we took the Shinkansen (bullet train) to get there. It took about an hour and a half and was a… Read more ›