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.

8r4dsfeets Mirror mirror on the floor… [read more...]

8r4d We got tickets to a big digital art installation called Team Borderless which delights and awes and left us feeling more than a bit spinny from all the moving lights and mirrors. [read more...]

8r4d We made some serious progress on foot through the streets of Tokyo today. #japan is gonna owe me some new shoes and some fresh knees when we’re done here. [read more...]

castironguy Real tea, digital flowers. [read more...]

8r4dsfeets Riding the rails? [read more...]

8r4dsfeets Purveyors of fine taiyaki in #japan [read more...]

castironguy Tempura for dinner in Midtown Tokyo. The clever deal here is that you pick the food you want to eat then go to the restaurant that makes that specific and only food. So we choose tempura tonight and it was amazing, but the menu was like six lines long: just what *kind* of tempura will you be ordering, huh? oh #japan [read more...]

castironguy Stopped for a snack. Taiyaki in a small little shop where we had to try out some of our Japanese skills as bad as they are, but we got a tasty treat for playing. #japan [read more...]

castironguy This little street in Harajuku is nothing but little shops selling sugar and treats, and lots and lots of kiddie novelties. It was a jam on a Saturday morning in #japan [read more...]

castironguy Our #lunch stop brought us deeper into Harajuku and a little shop that sold nothing but gyoza in many forms. We dabbled in gyoza joy and left happy for less than 2000 yen. #japan [read more...]

8r4d A real #running adventure this morning as I took the train to Futakotamagawa #parkrun in #japan [read more...]