Japan 2025

We headed out this morning for Tokyo, Japan. Nico has been very excited! It was the longest flight we’d ever taken, 12 hours! Nico didn’t sleep for a single second.

What a great day to start our first day in Japan! It was Nico’s 7th birthday and he got to spend it at Tokyo Disneyland! We got to go on a bunch of rides and by the end of the day we had to carry Nico around because he was

Today was our second day in Japan and second day at Disney. This time we headed to DisneySea, a Japanese exclusive Disney park. Nico had so much fun, he rode 13 rides according to Lee’s records. We had breakfast at our hotel and ended the night with dinner at a

Today we spent our last day at Disney at DisneySea again. We hit the last few rides we missed for the day before. We stayed all day in the park, including having dinner at a fancy Chinese restaurant called “The Silk Road”. After dinner we packed up and headed to

Today was Nico’s favorite day so far. We started out with breakfast at the hotel where he had Japanese pancakes (they are very much like the ones you are familiar with, but they are much fluffier). Then we took the train to Shibuya, a borough of Tokyo. There we had

Before heading to heading to Shinjuku, we made a pit stop in Ginza, the premium shopping district in Tokyo. I am very much a watch fanatic and had researched a watch from Japan I wanted to get while were where here. We went to Citizen’s flagship Tokyo store where I

Today was another fully loaded day! We started off again, with breakfast at our hotel. Lee and Matthew split the traditional Japanese breakfast, Matthew said next time he would pass . . . Then we headed to the Sky Tree Tower, one of the tallest buildings in Tokyo. On our way to the

Today we had to get up bright and early to meet our tour group for our day trip to Mount Fuji. Once on the bus, it took us about two and a half hours to arrive at our first stop at Mount Fuji. Lee, Matthew and I slept most of

Today Nico let us sleep in, and then Matthew had a mock trail call so we didn’t leave the hotel until about 11am. Then we took the train to Shibuya where we did some shopping. First we found a Pokémon store, then we went to the official Nintendo store where

Today we headed to Nikko. Nikko is a city in the mountains about two hours car ride outside of Tokyo. Lee had hired a private driver for the day to take us to Nikko and show us around. The mountains in Japan are absolutely stunning, so lush and green. If

Today we headed to Asakusa, a borough of Tokyo. This area has the big temple we went to on another day. First thing we did was go to a sushi making class. Nico had so much fun and Matthew made so many nigiri! We learned about how to make the

This morning it was raining and looked like it was going to rain the entire day. We met up with our tour guide, a Japanese college student here in Tokyo. He showed us around a near by Buddhist temple. It was very interesting to see the inside and learn about

This morning Lee let me and the boys sleep in (after my late night with Lee the night before). She and Nana went to the Imperial gardens, which is just across the moat from our hotel. There they had a guided tour with two guides. The gardens were the Shogun

This morning we got up bright and early for our last day in Japan, so sad! We took the bullet train to Kyoto for the day. The train is so fast, it goes 125 mph! We made it to Kyoto in about 2 hours. We all took a nice nap

We spent our last hours in Japan packing then getting breakfast in one of our hotel’s restaurants. It was bittersweet as we fell in love with Japan, but we missed home and wanted to see our dog Emmy. We got to the airport four hours early, and spent a while