The Grand Adventure: We love Japan

We made it! We have been here for about a week and we are seriously questioning our return. We head in to the mountains tomorrow and if the snow is as good as people say... we may never come back. We have basically been doing the City thing for the last week. First we hit Tokyo for a couple days and then went Southwest to visit Crystal’s middle school friend, Chris! Tokyo: Our first train ride from the airport to was insane. Have you guys seen thie video of Japan train station during rush hour? If not, peek at this. We were fortunate enough to be making our way to our air bnb at primo rush hour. So picture us with full packs plus day packs, cramming in to the train like the video above. Whoa.

It was a tight squeeze to say the least.

Overall, we loved Tokyo but we didn’t get enough time there. We explored some main spots like

Shibuya crossing, harajuku, Yoyogi Park and Omoide Yokocho.

We took a bus to Nagoya where Chris lives in a small town called Tokoname. Public transportation in Japan is amazing. It is so quiet, always on time, clean, and easy. The polar opposite of what we experienced in South America.

We were greeted with a lot of love from Chris and his wife Tomoko!

Chris and i have been friends since middle school and we have always considered each other family so it was amazing to see his home and finally meet his loving wife!

They surprised us with an awesome wedding gift. Tokoname is known for their pottery and they got us a pottery session with a local artist so we can make soy sauce dishes and ramen bowls! The experience was so fun and we loved every minute.

It was a rainy day so Chris took us to this amazing place called Spo-cha where its like Dave and Busters on drugs. There is literally everything there. You probably saw my instagram of us in the bubble suits. It was so fun.

We also ate conveyer belt sushi that night but we were way too busy housing down sushi to grab any pictures.

The next day, Chris took us for a quick day trip to Kyoto where we went to a golden temple, walked the Nishiki market and checked out the bamboo forest.