# Japan 2025! Tokyo Days 1-2

Konichiwa from the Shinkansen! It’s Nov 4 (Day 4) and coming off the heels (and very tired heels) of 3 days in Tokyo.

Current View

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My self-heating bento box

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Chris’ perfect little buffet

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The sights are amazing, and the sounds are non-existent — the people of Japan are notoriously quiet. I think I could sleep like a baby on a busy subway. I won’t try to cover it all but here’s a lil walk through a few moments.

Christine and I decided to capture a photographic themes on this trip. James — “playful” and Christine — “order”. Detroit had a couple playful moments…

This dancing fountain

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This Parallel Reality ticket reader is way cool. It’s hard to explain, but we both could see our info on this board AND NO ONE ELSE. We shared a fun moment with another traveler.

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First Tokyo subway ride

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The view outside our Sumida City Tokyo apartment

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And inside

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First morning outing started out with the best french toast ever at Suke6 Diner — they were so good we went back a couple days later.

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A nod to my fav japanese youtuber

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Slurping competition

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The Sakuragawa Shore Fireworks festival — the fireworks were fired off about 3 train-stops away but we could still feel the boom on the big ones.

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Even Japanese people were taking pics of how crowded the (incredibly managed) exit was.

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To capture the essence of how crowded this train was…

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Ok that’s it for Days 1 and 2 in photos. I’m realizing the wifi is slow and I have more photos than I can manage to curate for these posts… but I’ll try to keep up a few quick posts and come back later with more curated ones post trip.

But first let me leave you with a better photo than my nostrils…

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