MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Tokyo Trip Day 10 – October 23 2024 Easy blog day! We had booked tickets to the Making of Harry Potter, a studio tour about an hour away by train a couple days ago for this morning. We left the hotel at 9:15-ish. The only direct train was out of …
MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Tokyo Trip Day 9 – October 22 2024 We are getting to the point in the trip where we start to track how many days/meals we have left to make sure we are prioritizing what we want to do most. What we thought would be most important, such as day …
MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Tokyo Trip Day 8 – October 21 2024 The districts of Shibuya and Harajuku are quite close to each other and were both high on our list to visit, so we started our late morning taking a quick subway ride to Harajuku. A popular dish here is Japanese souffle pancakes- …
MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Tokyo Trip Day 7 – October 20 2024 It was a Sunday, so we had to pick where we explored strategically. Some of the districts would be too busy to enjoy if we went on a weekend, so we picked Shinjuku again to see the rest of the district. After …
MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Tokyo Trip Day 6 – October 19 2024 We had a slow morning and left the hotel around 11 again. Since it was going to be so hot and humid, we decided to head to a district called Ikebukuro. There was a large mall called Sunshine City we wanted to …
MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Tokyo Trip Day 5 – October 18 2024 We woke up finally feeling refreshed. We were both starving and wanted something quick to eat, so we popped into the convenience store right next to the hotel. We got a good haul so we had some leftover for later, too. I …
MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Tokyo Trip Day 4 – October 17 2024 We woke up early again. Not by choice. Mike has been doing OK with sleep, I have been having a rough time. The original plan was to sleep in and hang out in the hotel until checkout at noon, take the 3 …
MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Tokyo Trip Day 3 – October 16 2024 DisneySea day! General consensus in the global Disney community is that this is the best theme park in the world (not just Disney parks), so we were sufficiently excited. In addition, the main reason we purchased the vacation package was to have …
MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Tokyo Trip Day 2 – October 15 2024 Last night, I (Jessica) got only 4 hours of sleep, even after only getting 5 the night before the flight and being up for 26 hours. It wasn’t the best start to the day, especially because my body typically needs a consistent …
MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Tokyo Trip Day 1 – October 14 2024 Overall, the travel experience getting into Tokyo was one of the easiest we have experienced for international trips. Other than an hour delay on our first flight making the connection a bit tighter than we would have liked, everything was smooth and …