Sub-Blog Post 1: "Japan: Part 1"
Date: July 19, 2024 @ ~09:39 EDT
Author: lule34567
Hello everyone,
Last blog post I explained my situation and how I mentioned I went to Japan. Well, this ost will (hopefully) describe my trip to Japan! Let's get started.
Day 1: Arrival
When we first arrived, we had to get up from our artificially sleep-induced flight (in which I was the only one who couldn't get sleep) and pick up our bags. After that, we went through customs (which is where I found out Japan is still super paranoid about COVID-19) and then pretty quickly got a taxi, where we drove an hour all the way from Narita Airport to Tokyo. It was actually pretty nice, it reminded me of Europe a lot. Once we settled down, we decided to go walk around Tokyo at night, and I thought it was beautiful in terms of its architecture and urban planning.
Day 2: Moving
Once we woke up in the first hotel, we went to another hotel we already reserved in adavnce as this first once was far too expensive to pay off, so once we paid it off using points we collected plus a tad bit of taxes roughly around $30 USD. We hailed a taxi and proceeded to carry our luggage to our new room, and then a couple hours later, we went out to eat food.
Day 3: Shibuya Sccramble
We got settled in our new room, and decided to go out to Shibuya Scramble/Sky today which I think was a nice place to go. The place was rather cramped thanks to the overwhelming amount of people such a tourists and residents who live here, however we had already reserved a place for us in the line at Shibuya Sky, so as soon as we found the express elevator, we were greeted by a couple minute ride andd then... Frsh, albeit highly windy, A i r.
Once we were done there, we went out to go eat somewhere near the hotel. I thought Udon noodles were a 6/10 at best, certainly not as awful as the ones here in America lol.
Day 4: Kyoto
One of the things on our trip that my mother wanted to do (and by "our list" I mean "her list") is go to Kyoto. So we hopped on the Shinkansen and had a one hour ride through the rural regions of Japan. It was quite nice. Plus, I had the chance to try some snacks from the infamous vending machines that were really good. Especally the sandwiches, and the sparking mineral water. Oh, and quick note I might get some of these images in the wrong order, but oh well.
After we arrived in Kyoto, we went to this temple that I forgot the name of (because we went to so many temples) and was decent I guess albeit a little hot but cooled down thanks to the mist. Here's some images.
When we finished up there, we went out to eat and hopped back on the train back to Japan.
Day 5: Those red gates I forgot the name of
I think sometime during the trip we went to those famous red gates in Japan that I forgot the name of but still rather cool in its own way. Heres the two images I found of those. Again, we took a train, and I enjoyed some treats, but all in all that was about it.
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End
AS of right now writing this, I'm getting burnt out from writing this HUGE blog post that I wanna put out so what I'm going to do is seperate into 2 parts and work on the final 5 days later on...that is if I don't procrastinate.
Anyways, Thanks for reading.
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