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Nijū Bashi

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    • Day 127

      Tokyo

      June 7, 2023 in Japan ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

      🇨🇭: de ganz Tag voll dure Plant hahaha mir hend hüt so viel gseh🤯
      Zerst mol zum Kaiserpalast (wo mir leider ned würkli was gseh hend) und denn simmer zu nehm Shrine, sehr schön gsi. Per Zuefall au eh Zeremonie chöne mit ahluege. Nochdem simmer nach Shibuya. Mega cooli Stadt! Isch au die mit gfühlt de grösst und völlst krüüzig. Megaa geil gsi sind denn au chli ge umeschländere und ih Läde inne. Sind in nem Pokemon Center gsi, was btw echt geil gsi isch 😂 oder im Nintendo Store. Nochdem mir denn au det usgibig zmittag gesse hend simmer ih eh Arcade inne. Det hemmer die coolst Mario Kart rundi i üsem Lebe gspielt hahaha so würkli mit Gadpedal und Bremse hahaha🍌
      Bi dem Video ein Versurch spöter han i denn würkli die Figur gha hahaha mega stolz gsi😁
      Mitem Taxi sind mir denn witter zum Tokyo Tower. Sehr geili Ussicht vo det obe, ganz ussicht über Tokyo. Kurzi Zit det verbracht und denn zu üsem lieblings Punkt uf üsere Tagesliste Akihabara oder Akiba. Die Stadt
      für Anime Merchandise hahah anderst cool gsi. Hend de restlich Tag denn det verbrocht hend viel Läde ahglueget. Am schluss sogar no in nes Maidcafe zum znacht esse. Lustigi Erfahrig gsi aber insgesammt chli zu tüür…
      Ufem heiweg sind mir denn no vo ner Japanische Familie adoptiert worde wo üs mit gnoh het ih nes Restaurant (Muetter het no Geburi gha) hend denn mit ihni was trunke und sache chöne probiere. Echt lustig gsi, defür chli spöter zrugg is Hotel cho🫢
      Morn gohts denn zum Checkout und mitem Zug i die nögst Stadt.

      🇺🇸: the whole day was really full with stuff we want to do. Start with the kaisers palace, it was nice but we couldn‘t see so much we acutally wanted. So we went to a shrine in the near. It was really beautiful, and randomly we could see a special tradtional ceremony. After this we went with the Taxi to Shibuya. Very nice city with one of the largest and hurriest crossings in Japan. Was super interesting. We spend sometime there and visit diffrent stores. Like the Pokemon Center was amazing or the Nintendo store. We also eat dinner there and going back. On thw way we a arcade and we decide to play some games there. Its funny after the video a try later i win the figur hahaha😂 and i also play the funniest mario cart in my life. It was so good with a real accelerator and a real brake. With the next taxi we drove to the Tokyo Tower. Amazing view! You can see the whole city, was so nice. Our last stop bring us to our favorite place on the list. It calls Akihabara or Akiba. I love it. There are streets full with anime merchandise and a lot of maids. We also went for dinner in a maid cafe. Was really funny bit litte bit expensive… but was anice experince. On the way back home we get adopted by a japanese famil. Was so cute, the invite us in a restaurant and the funny thing was the mother had birthday. It was so funny and we can try some japanes things. We are really enjoy it and had a great day here in tokyo
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    • Day 25

      Japanorama

      October 10, 2023 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 72 °F

      The weather cleared today and we had our first proper tour of Tokyo. A quick bus ride downtown took us by the Parliament Building, and then we exited the bus at the park surrounding the Imperial Palace. Our guide, Yuki, was fantastic. Her English was impeccable and her commentary was superb. I had wondered whether we should have endeavored to visit downtown Tokyo yesterday on the train, but a couple of passengers on our bus today revealed that though they had come into town on their own, they had no idea where they were or what their locations meant. We were wise to wait.

      Today I asked Yuki about the location of the ancient fishing village of Edo. She told me that at that moment we were in the bounds of ancient Edo. I would never have known it from all of the beautiful modern skyscrapers around us. I also asked her about the Japanese name for Tokyo. The two Chinese characters signifying “eastern capital” are also the Japanese kanji characters for Tokyo. I asked her if the two identical Japanese characters had the same meaning. She said they did, though the Japanese pronunciation is different from Chinese. We toured the exquisite park around the Imperial Palace, and I fell in love with their black pine trees. They are similar to our pine trees, but noticeably distinctive and absolutely beautiful. The general population gets to go beyond these gates twice each year, once on January 2 to wish the Emperor a happy new year and again on February 23 for his official birthday.

      Not since we arrived in Tokyo have we seen a scrap of litter nor a letter of graffiti. One absence I found shocking. Downtown, in one of the largest cities in the world, I did not hear a siren. Not one. For four days. This omission strikes one as impossible in a city this size. I did not see a homeless person. We did not hear an automobile horn honk. When asked about this quietness in a bustling downtown metropolis, Yuki said, “We Japanese are quiet. We do not like to disturb our neighbors.” She told us that from the first grade, pupils spend 20 minutes after lunch cleaning up from their meal, sweeping the floor of their classroom, polishing the windows and cleaning the chalkboard. There is virtually no crime here. If you leave your wallet on the seat of your unlocked car, it will remain there. If you accidentally leave your cell phone on a park bench, you can go back five hours later, and it will still be where you left it.

      The Japanese people are astounding.
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    • Day 30

      Imperial Castle

      October 28, 2023 in Japan ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F

      Aside from Senjosi Temple, the only other place we visited today was the grounds of the Imperial Palace.

      We only had a few hours in Tokyo, not nearly enough time to do the city justice! We definitely need to come back and spend a few days here.

      Even so, we enjoyed this brief taste.
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    • Day 5

      Rund um den Kaisergarten

      February 7, 2018 in Japan ⋅ ☀️ 8 °C

      Es sind nur kleine Teile des Kaisergarten zugänglich, vielleicht auch weil Minister Steinmeier heut hier ist 🤓

      Alles ist super sauber und gepflegt. Stress kennt man hier nicht. Oder wir merken es nicht.

      Alle Bäume 🌳 sind geschnitten wie Bonsai, in allen Formen - irre was für eine Arbeit.
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    Nijū Bashi, Niju Bashi, 二重橋

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