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1. nickys 2. Grouchy Amy 3. Super Grumpy 4. The Colonel 5. Angel Ariel 6. ZapperZ

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... cont. We hung around the station for a while because we were on our own for lunch. We had a lovely lunch where we encountered for the first time a machine where you put money in and selected what you want to order. It then spit out a ticket that you give to the server upon entering the...

We got up early for Day 5 of our tour because we have to bring our luggage down to the lobby to be transported separately to Osaka. We a good, hearty Japanese breakfast, and soon we were ready. We simply had to walk from our hotel to the train station. The last view out of our room showed how...

.... cont. We spent the night at a hotel in Mishima. The hotel was right next to the train station, which was convenient because we would be catching a train the next day. But what was jaw-dropping was the sight out of the window of our room. Some of the clouds parted, revealing what we had...

... cont. Our next stop was the Fujisan Museum. Didn't take a lot of photos there, though. We then had a lunch buffet at a hotel restaurant. I forgot where, though, but it was still in the area, and it was right next to an amusement park in the Mount Fuji area. Supposedly, from the huge...

Day 4 of our tour was when we left Tokyo. We checked out of our hotel rather early in the day and boarded our bus to the Five Lakes region. We arrived at the side of Lake Kawaguchi where there is a cable-car that took us to the top for what promised to be a spectacular view of Fujisan. The...

... cont. We then hopped onto a train to get to the Imperial Palace garden. We were there till mid afternoon, and by then, it was getting quite a bit hot, so we decided to go back to the hotel, chill out, and get an early dinner. We had an early day the next day because we were leaving...

Day 3 of our tour was another open day. We started our morning by taking the train to the infamous Shibuya scramble. I bought something at the Starbucks overlooking the intersection so that I could sit by the picture window. The intersection appears larger in videos, and it would have been...

Yes, that qualifies. Zz.

7/20-7/26: Food & Drink 1. Grouchy Amy 2. (tie) Angel Ariel, fablass, King Capybara 77, ZapperZ 3. The Colonel

Disney Springs/Downtown Disney Contest Description: A photo taken anywhere in or of the Downtown Disney/Disney Springs area. Official Contest Rules The rules will be very similar as previous years: Contests will run from Saturday-Friday 11:59pm PACIFIC TIME, submissions after this time will...

1. Grouchy Amy 2. Super Grumpy 3. The Colonel 4. Angel Ariel 5. lesthered 6. ZapperZ 7. nickys

.... cont. Our final stop for the day was the famous Asakusa. All the visitor advice that I've read told us not to go there from late morning till late afternoon. So when did we get there? Early afternoon. Of course the place was packed! I decided that we needed to escape from the...

... cont. Our next stop was the Shinjuku Gyoen Garden. This park is actually just north of our Tokyo hotel, so it is right in the middle of the city once again. Luckily the rain stopped. I snapped quite a few photos, including a few to include the city buildings just to remind everyone that...

Day 1 of our guided tour was the check-in day. Day 2 was when we had our first excursion. We boarded a bus and our first stop was a visit to Meiji Shrine, which was a 20th Century Shinto monument set in a very lush man-made forest, right in the middle of Tokyo. Unfortunately, it was raining...

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I also visited the flagship Uniqlo store just down the street from Mitsukoshi in the Ginza district. At the entrance on the first floor, you see this display: It was very hypnotic. It was as if they were trying to hypnotize you to walk in and buy, buy, buy, which I did, did, did. 😂 Zz.

They were all beef, with the first one being wagyu, but I don't remember the cuts. Zz.

7/13-7/19: Sweet Treats 1. nickys 2. high plains drifter 3. King Capybara 77