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  • Day 7

     A day at Waseda U. After a quick morning laundry and breakfast, we leave for Waseda. The offices are very big, and there is easily room for 4 in Noe’s office: there is the “office” section but also a big table where 6 people can easily sit and work. This one is probably intended for…

  • Day 6 Jour 6 Dia 6

    Just a stroll in Shinjuku to buy some notebooks for the kids to practice their Kanjis and write their journals. We did stumble upon a shrine on the way. Finding Bento boxes, then going to Waseda U. for some work.  Solo un paseo por Shinjuku para comprar unos cuadernos para que los niños practiquen sus…

  • Day 5

    It’s Sunday, and it’s rest time. But from 3pm it is less hot and we decide to go out anyway. Departure on the JY line (Yamamoto line) for Yoyogi park, where we were promised a horde of people in cosplay, rockabilly dancing, and a famous temple. When we arrive, there are, once again, a lot…

  • Day 4

     On day 4, the first challenge was to wake up early, to catch the 9:50 JS train to Kamakura. Kamakura is about 1 hour 15 from Shinkuku station on the Shonan-Shinjuku line, a train line that started in the early 2000s that borrows other JR east tracks. We reached the station, found the correct platform,…

  • Day 3

    This third day, the wake up is still a bit difficult. After a quick breakfast, we leave by train to an area north of Shinjuku City, Kitaotsuka (Toshima). After having strolled in small streets quasi-pedestrian (it should be said that many non-major streets seem quasi-pedestrian in what we saw of Tokyo). We buy a lunch…

  • Day 2

     Thursday, June 16th, second day in Tokyo, first full day. After a more complicated than normal wake up, due to the jet lag, a quiet breakfast, we went to explore the Shinjuku City area south of the apartment. We are in the Okubo district, a Korean district with a lot of bars, cafés, and other…

  • First day

     After our touchdown on Wednesday around 7:30am, it was time to navigate Narita airport. First thing we noticed: lots of people to orient passengers, check they have the mySOS app, that the screen on said app is Blue (or, if a different color, to send them to the appropriate line), checking the QR code, thus…

  • The trip

     Monday 13th of June 2022. After tidying up as much as possible the house, spending the weekend getting the garden prepared, prepping the friendly people who will take care of the hen coop, making sure people will be on hand to insure hens have enough water (France is going to have a warm spell, and…