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  • Suica Card

    Suica Card

     Here is a pic of Samuel’s Suica card. With the name (so it can be addressed to you when lost and found, try to spot it), and the map of Tokyo JR stations for the day pass! Aquí podéis ver una foto de la tarjeta Suica de Samuel. ¡Con el nombre (para que se pueda…

  • The longest day

    The longest day

    The longest day, day 55 (travelers only). We wake up on Monday, 8th of August, at 6:30am local time. Three quick showers, close the one opened suitcase, and we are waiting for the hotel bus at 7:15. At 7:30, we are in the bus. We arrive at the airport terminal at 7:45, have our 3…

  • Day 54

    Day 54

    The morning is spent finalizing suitcases (after a last laundry) that will fly soon and suitcases that will move to a Step21 studio on campus. We then try the Bambi Café in front of our building, a Korean café and fluffy pancake place that has had quite some success since we arrived. We then grab…

  • Day 53

    Day 53

    Saturday. Our last complete day in Tokyo… Tomorrow, three of us will be sleeping in Narita, ready for the next day’s morning flight. After the early laundry, part of the morning is used up to advance luggage preparation. We then head up to the Nezu shrine. We take the Oedo line from Higashi-Shinjuku until the…

  • Service announcement

    Service announcement

     The last 3 days and some thematic post will come from another continent.   Les 3 derniers jours et certains postes thématiques viendront d’un autre continent.   Los últimos 3 días y algún post temático vendrán de otro continente.  Boarding!!

  • Day 52

    Day 52

    After a morning working on the recovery of the lost laundry (lost to rain yesterday), and luggage planification for the upcoming trip, we head through the Shinjuku Waseda neighborhood. The aim is to get to the traditional Tempura restaurant that Noe has talked about for ages. We get there in time to have a nice…

  • Day 51

    Day 51

     Eyquem has recovered well. The sky is gray, temperatures are more acceptable, we are almost cold: we leave the apartment with 27 degrees, real feel 32, and it shouldn’t go further than 32 degrees, real feel 35. Fresh, by our current standards. We walk to Shinjuku station, admire the famous Shinjuku crossing cat, who just…

  • Day 50

    Day 50

    Today is a long-awaited day in the Danthine Navarro household. We have tickets for the Ghibli museum. So off we go. After a walk in the heat to reach Okubo station, a swift train ride, we are at Kichijoji station. The neighborhood seems nice. We walk, hunting for shade, until we reach the Inokashira park.…

  • Day 49

    Today, we go visit the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. They have a beautiful retrospective exhibit on Gerhard Richter, in which you can follow clearly the evolution and the continuity. The permanent collection, which mainly holds Japanese artists from the Meiji era to now, is very interesting, too. We must admit we do not…

  • Day 48

     Not surprisingly, the weather forecast is on the warmer side. Today we will have a max of 37 degrees Celsius, with a real feel of 42. Tomorrow it will go to 38 and real feel 43. Noe is going to the fresh haven of her office in Waseda, the rest is aiming for museums. Today,…