I am an architectural designer living and working in the Seattle area. This blog is used to document my travels around the world.
We got up and headed to the airport. Kalun’s flight left at noon, ours left at 5pm. It took us a good 3 hours to travel from the apartment to the airport. Kalun barely caught his flight. But then with 5 hours left for the rest of us, we spent our time looking through the […]
So today was all about seeing last minute stuff. We started by going over to the Prada store in the very yuppie Tokyo Shopping District. No, we did not buy anything there, but my architecture professor told me that I had to see the building and you can see why. It is a very strange […]
After seeing the older sights in Tokyo - the palace and temple - we devoted today to seeing the modern parts of town. We finally left Avid’s place at about noon, since we finally hit the sack near 1:30. Our first stop was food. Big Macs taste the same here as they do at home, […]
We got up this morning around 7am. Spent a far amount of time on a train heading to central Tokyo to visit the Empirical Palace. We walked around the grounds for a while, saw a bunch of really neat traditional Japanese architecture (and real anti-ninja walls!)
From there we moved on to a very traditional marketplace […]
So I guess I should start out by saying that everyone made it to Japan safely. It was just a REALLY long day…
The flight was pretty neat. We were on this ginormous 777 with more headroom than you can imagine. Each seat had this little LCD where you could choose from a variety of movies […]