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Sweating, swimming and reconnecting in Shikinejima
For summer holiday we camped on the Tokyo island of Shikinejima.
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Traveling home: a culinary experience
I was in the Minneapolis airport and I had just spent 30 minutes looking for an Arby’s. The beef and cheddar combo was the last item on my mental checklist of food I wanted to eat before returning to Tokyo. From June 27-July 10 I had returned to the U.S., mostly to visit family in […]
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A Tokyo whirlwind tour part II
The continuation of the travel log for Mom and Dad’s 2013 tour of Tokyo.
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Mount Tsukuba (pronounced ‘scuba’)
Mount Tsukuba is shrouded in myth, and the day we hiked to the summit, the valley below was shrouded in mist. Peaking at 877 meters (2,877 feet), Tsukuba is an hour and a half north of Tokyo. Just take the Tsukuba Express from Akihabara Station for about 45 minutes (cost=1,150 yen) and then hop on […]
a Nick in Time 