Things Japan gets right

They do so much so right. Japan is winning. Here are a few of my favorite things:

The children are incredibly well behaved.
The hotels give you lots of cool stuff like shaving cream and toothbrushes.
The hotels understand that using hotel washcloths is gross so they give you individually sealed body sponges! And a new one every day
Restaurants give you baskets to put your purse or backpack in so they don’t have touch the floor!!!
Trains!!!
People are quiet on the trains and you cannot make phone calls on a train!
Food and customer service
Cars and electronics
Fish for breakfast, lunch and dinner
Heavily prunes trees and bushes!

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OH YES WE DID!

Oh yes we did drive go-carts through Tokyo for 3 hours at night dressed like Mario Brothers without helmets or seatbelts. It was both crazy and crazy fun at the same time. I think we topped 70km/hr which Eric says is about 43mph. I’m sure it was perfectly safe. We drove across rainbow bridge too This is where I ogled the Valentino store in Ginza: And Rainbow Bridge in the background that we drove over... twice:

Burnt Miso Ramen

Let’s get a closer look at this unbelievable ramen from ramendining-gogyo.com, which is across from the US Army Hardy Barracks. This was more pork than I’ve eaten in years. But I loved every minute of it. And here is a square watermelon And we ate an Asian pear. They are in season.

Matsumoto

We left Tokyo and arrived in Matsumoto where there is one of the few surviving wooden Samarai castles called black crow: We climbed to the top of that bad boy and the stairs were super steep. Surprisingly I did not have an anxiety attack coming down. Then we took a soba noodle making class here: Here are my noodles and my favorite drink POCARI SWEAT. We also had burnt miso ramen here DEElish. Matsumoto is the birthplace of Yayoi Kusama (whose Hamilton of the Art world tickets we snagged at the High). The city museum of art had an awesome exhibit which included infinity mirrors but no photo allowed. These are her flowers outside. Her work is incredible. Now taking a bus to Takayama

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