And we are off!
2月17日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Busy traffic to the airport but made it with plenty of time to spare. Checked in online yesterday so it was the bag drop and customs this morning, and it was super quiet! Got through in about 15もっと詳しく
Home for the week
2月17日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 6 °C
Have arrived at our apartment in Tokyo 16 hours since we left our house in Melb. Our flight was relatively cruisy. Michael and I just read our books basically the whole trip. The food was surprisinglyもっと詳しく
Yokohama cupnoodle museum
2月18日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C
Today is the first day of the Chinese new year, so we are spending the day in Yokohama as they have one of Japan's only Chinatowns. Getting here was a headache and a half.
We've done just aboutもっと詳しく
Lunch at Kahuna Room
2月18日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
We've ducked over to the "around the world building" across from the cup noodle museum to have lunch, as we were starving! We ended up at a waffle and curry house called Kalaha Room. It is Hawaiianもっと詳しく
Yokohome Motomachi Shopping Street
2月18日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C
Caught a go taxi down to motomachi shopping street, which runs along at the very bottom of Yokohama chinatown. It's a quaint street with a strange mix of modern and European architecture, and theもっと詳しく
Yokohama Chinatown
2月18日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
The last stop for the day in Yokohama was at their Chinatown. It's currently Chinese New Year, so there are lots of lanterns and festivities happening and extra food stuff on sale.
We arrived at anもっと詳しく
DisneySea
2月19日, 日本 ⋅ 🌬 5 °C
Today we have a hopper pass to explore DisneySea and Disneyland. This is Michaels first time at a Disney park and my fourth time (I've done California, Florida, and Hong Kong Disney parks). Theもっと詳しく
DisneyLand Tokyo
2月19日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
We spent our afternoon at Disneyland, grabbing the Disney rail to get here, which was very cute given the train cars had fluffy seats and handrails!
We did four animatronic rides here. There wereもっと詳しく
Ramen for dinner
2月19日, 日本 ⋅ 🌙 6 °C
We decided that after a day of scattered snaking, we needed something of substance to fill our bellies but that was also on the way home from the bus station. That combination of factors landed us atもっと詳しく
Mikokuyu: The Japanese Bathhouse
2月19日, 日本 ⋅ 🌙 4 °C
I left Michael at the apartment to go on a little night time adventure to a local bathhouse about a 10 minute walk from the apartments. It's so crazy that our neighbourhood is so chill that you canもっと詳しく
Kichijoji Studio Ghibli Day
2月20日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 2 °C
This is a placeholder post so that everyone knows I'm not dead! Michaels phone is having difficulties connecting to his camera, so we are going to sort it once home and I'll update everything laterもっと詳しく
In transit: Kichijoji
2月20日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 3 °C
There is a bakery not far from our apartment that wafts through the air every time you pass it. It's intoxicating and both Michael and I moan each time we pass by. I looked it up, and they specialiseもっと詳しく
Shirohige’s Cream Puff Shop
2月20日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 6 °C
Our first main stop on our Ghibli inspired itinerary today is Shirohige's Cream Puff Shop. This is the only Studio Ghibli licensed bakery in all of Japan! They sell out super fast, so we arrived tenもっと詳しく
Petit Mura
2月20日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C
The next stop on our itinerary is Petit Mura. Petit Mura is a small complex with some shops and a cat rescue cafe, all designed with Ghibli whimsy and architectural vibes. I got a cute new beanieもっと詳しく
A drink and burger for uncle Don
2月20日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
Had a drink for Uncle Don over our American burgers for lunch today. Uncle Don passed away a few weeks ago, and his funeral unfortunately landed today whilst we were here in Japan. But Uncle Don wasもっと詳しく
Studio Ghibli Museum
2月20日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
We spent our afternoon at the Studio Ghibli Museum. This was an amazing museum that included storyboards, drawing inspirations, Miyazaki's personal study items, a range of displays and explorations onもっと詳しく
Plum Blossoms!
2月20日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
We wandered back up to Kichijoji station through Inokashira Park to discover that the various plums and some early cherry blossoms were out in bloom! Very lovely to see such a nice variety of coloursもっと詳しく
Stationary and Dumplings at Asakusabashi
2月20日, 日本 ⋅ 🌙 8 °C
We ended our day in Asakusabashi, which was the city area that we had to transit between train and subway. We went over to a very large stationary store where Michael bought a few things (his poorもっと詳しく
More baked goods!
2月21日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 8 °C
Had to stop in and try out four more of the baked goods from our amazing local bakery. All four completely hit the spot, munching on two outside of the bakery (the melonpan and the cream and custard)もっと詳しく
Setagaya Plum Festival at Hinagi Park
2月21日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Today we are starting our morning in a Japanese "deep cut" (I'm using this term for any place or activity that is very much not on the tourist radar unless you are a tourist specifically hunting forもっと詳しく
Kitazawa Flea Market and shops
2月21日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
We have headed up to shitakitazawa to visit the flea market that is on today. This is a "thrift" town, but it really is more so a "designer vintage" town. Our friend Erin was bang on with herもっと詳しく
Souffle pancakes for lunch at Flippers
2月21日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
Went to Flippers to get some souffle pancakes for lunch for a change. Omg, they were so light and fluffy! Michael had milk tea with banana and caramel, and I had blueberries with lemon curd andもっと詳しく
Cat street and Parco wanders
2月21日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
We caught the train from Shimokitazawa up to Harajuku to go and check out a great view rec from our friend Erin, and it was so lovely! Michael got some killer snaps of the view and where we were aboutもっと詳しく
Chinese for Dinner
2月21日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
We were ravished after so much walking, so had an early 5.30pm dinner at a local Chinese place. Really tasty stuff that hit the spot, especially after such a wheat heavy day, it was good to down someもっと詳しく
Shibuya Crossing
2月21日, 日本 ⋅ 🌙 10 °C
We went to the super famous Shibuya crossing to people watch and get a feel for the place, and well, Michael caught this candid of me that sums things up. My thought was "it's not THAT big why are youもっと詳しく

































































































































































































































































Can see your plane landed safely and a few minutes early. YAY. Have a great trip guys! Love Mum & Rob. [Jacqui]