Living at a hostel for 10 days puts you in a category of guest called “Hostel Rats”. When we arrived we met Bishop who had been at Tokyo Hostel for a month, he walked us to the train stations and showed us where to eat soba, and last night we officially became hostel rats. Ai,… [Read more…]
April 30, 2009
We are back in Tokyo and taking it slow… really slow… as in not getting out of bed until 11am and not leaving the house until 2pm. Its nice not to feel like we need to go and do or see anything. We have been taking the bikes out from the hostel and checking out… [Read more…]
April 27, 2009
7:30am Woke-up and ate breakfast in our room. 8:30am On the first of three trams and a bus that took us to the Toyota Headquarters. 11am Met up with the English tour and got on yet another bus to the factory. 11:15am Watched in amazement as at least 20 robots spot welded sheet metal into… [Read more…]
April 26, 2009
It was either starve or learn Japanese. Scoutt likes to eat and chose to learn Japanese… or at least kinda. With the help of Bishop, the Alaskan hostel rat at Toyko Hostel, and Ai, the super cute receptionist, Scoutt learned the phrase “Yasai dake ni shite kudasai” which means “Please vegetables only”. Ai wrote it… [Read more…]
April 26, 2009
I`ve got Robyn playing in my head as we wonder threw the mega-tropolis of Tokyo. Its been freezing cold and on-and-off raining, but Scoutt and I have having a rockin` time in Tokyo. The city is Massive and we have been riding the rails to get from place to place. Making sure to get lost… [Read more…]
May 3, 2009
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