• 16Jan
    Categories: Tokyo 2015-2016 Comments Off on Shinjuku Gyoen

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    Shinjuku Gyoen is a national garden has three styled gardens, a Japanese traditional garden, an English landscape garden and a French formal garden.

  • 10Jan
    Categories: Tokyo 2015-2016 Comments Off on Love that swing

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  • 10Jan
    Categories: Tokyo 2015-2016 Comments Off on Autumn, winter or spring?

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    We took a walk through Arisugawa koen and played with leaves and admired the flowers in the trees…early spring…

  • 10Jan
    Categories: Tokyo 2015-2016 Comments Off on Tokyo Skytree

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    Tokyo skytree,  the world’s tallest tower, is 634 meter. We took the elevator to floor 350. It took 50 seconds…

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    It was a bit hazy but we could see Mt Fuji in the horizon.

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    Snack time and one floor below to the glass floor..taking pictures of our feet…

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  • 07Jan
    Categories: Tokyo 2015-2016 Comments Off on All done!

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  • 07Jan
    Categories: Tokyo 2015-2016 Comments Off on Max smaller excavation

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    Almost ready…some more brushing needed…

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    Sam relaxes after a day in school…

  • 07Jan
    Categories: Tokyo 2015-2016 Comments Off on Tokyo National Museum

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    Highlights of Japanese Art. Max truly enjoyed the “attire of the military elite”.
    I preferred the “fashion in the Edo period”.

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    Finished off with a walk around Ueno lake, which in the summer time is filled with beautiful Lotus flowers.

  • 07Jan
    Categories: Tokyo 2015-2016 Comments Off on Terracotta statues exhibition

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    Max and I went to Tokyo National Museum to see an exhibition of the Great terracotta army from China’s first emperor.  It was pretty amazing! 

  • 05Jan
    Categories: Tokyo 2015-2016 Comments Off on Toshugu shrine in Ueno

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    Time for some play before picking up Sam from school..

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    and lunch at Hard Rock cafe..

  • 05Jan
    Categories: Tokyo 2015-2016 Comments Off on National Museum of Nature and Science

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    The dinosaurs were a hit of course,  then we moved on to science and technology.

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    We enjoyed the hands on displays, even if it was a bit hard to understand the directions in Japanese…

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    Amazed to see the intestines of a cow, and a whale…

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  • 03Jan
    Categories: Tokyo 2015-2016 Comments Off on Another park visit

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  • 03Jan
    Categories: Tokyo 2015-2016 Comments Off on Lunch

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    15 in the shade…we have lunch on our terrace today again!

  • 02Jan
    Categories: Tokyo 2015-2016 Comments Off on Yokohama trip

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  • 01Jan
    Categories: Tokyo 2015-2016 Comments Off on New Year’s day

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    Most places are closed on New years day but we did find one park that was open…

    Then we went home for afternoon coffee on our lovely roof terrace

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  • 01Jan
    Categories: Tokyo 2015-2016 Comments Off on Happy New Year

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    Wishing you all the best for 2016!

  • 30Dec
    Categories: Tokyo 2015-2016 Comments Off on To Star wars or Not…

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    Max and daddy went to see Star wars

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    Sam and mommy went to the park

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  • 29Dec
    Categories: Tokyo 2015-2016 Comments Off on Beautiful days…

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    Another amazing blue sky day in Tokyo and another trip to a park and a walk back home. We had coffee and snack on our roof terrace and enjoyed a one-man-show by Max!

  • 28Dec
    Categories: Tokyo 2015-2016 Comments Off on Wonderous machines…

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    We are all fascinated by all the different vending machines we find here…you can get most anything from them….bananas, snacks, ice-cream, cold and hot drinks and today Max found hotdogs…

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  • 28Dec
    Categories: Tokyo 2015-2016 Comments Off on Nikoniko park

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    Spent a fun morning in Nikoniko park, in glorious weather. Definitely have to go back!

  • 27Dec
    Categories: Tokyo 2015-2016 Comments Off on Star wars..

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    Max is a real pro now, building lego Star Wars,  and his collection is growing…

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