8r4dsfeets Games and arcade machines weren’t certainly no museum. [read more...]

8r4dsfeets Just outside the moat. [read more...]

castironguy Stopped for dinner at a place we keep walking by everyday between our hotel and the train station. We could see through the windows and wanted to try. I’ve never even heard of monjayaki until tonight, but we got a full lesson and a delicious meal. [read more...]

pixelazy I did bring my SLR to take glamour shots of #japan and it certainly paid off on our visit to the imperial palace. [read more...]

castironguy It was a pokemon kinda morning here in #japan and karin caught an extra rare one… [read more...]

castironguy We checked out one of those pop culture cafes and since i have dabbled in playing final fantasy for years, we ate some chocobo brains and had a very strange lunch. #japan [read more...]

8r4dsfeets Feeling koi? #japan imperial palace [read more...]

8r4d Our third day in Tokyo was definitely tough on my poor feet, but we did get a lot of opportunity to practice some basic politeness using today’s #japan word of the day:

ありがとうございます

or arigatoo gozaimasu (the u on the end is silent) which means a kind of polite and formal thank you, and a phrase that you often hear and say when interacting with services and vendors. A sincere nod of the head or light bow has been getting us lots of smiles, too.