Welcome To
Tom and Jana's Japan Journal!
Nine days in the Land of the Rising Sun
A Map of Our Journey
My good friend Mark and his family, who had spent nearly two
years in Japan, graciously hosted us during our visit. Having
people help familiarize us with some of the challenges we would
face during our visit was a tremendous help. A special "Thanks" to
them!
Mark, Traci, and Tom on the shinkansen (bullet train)
Another "Thanks" is in order for my brother Steve, who
contributed some vouchers from Delta to help with the cost of our
tickets!
OK, I admit from the beginning that Jana wrote this
journal,
so full credit, or blame, goes to her.
I did take some of the pictures though! (The really good ones.)
An index is provided at the bottom of this page
if you want to jump to a particular day.
So now I will turn these pages, beginning with this
introduction, over to your lovely host...
Your Lovely and Talented Host... Jana!
It's a long flipping way to Tokyo from Tennessee - an hour
flight to Atlanta, five hours to Los Angeles, then a
monsterously-long 12 more hours to Japan. If only it were that
easy. To make a long journey even longer, the incident to which I
am so obliquely referring is our cancelled flight from LA to Tokyo
and subsequent rebooking on the same flight 24 hours later.
Now, although we both certainly prefer a one-day delay in our
trip to plunging into the ocean in a big ball of flames, we also
would have preferred if Delta would have let us off the plane as it
was sitting in the gate for four hours instead of making us sit
there in a plane reaking of diesel fumes. And we also would have
preferred not being given a different story as to the cause of the
delay every half hour or so, such as the one where we were told a
sensor was making the check-engine light come on, though we could
easily look out the window and see mechanics dismantling the
engine. And yes, surprisingly enough, we would also have preferred
not being treated as a major inconvenience in the ticket agent's
day.
But anyway, one day late, on Thursday, March 1, at 5:00 p.m.
Tokyo time, our story begins...
Day 2 Kyoto
Day 3 Kyoto and
Yokohama
Day 4 Tokyo and
Yokohama
Day 5 Nagasaki
Day 6 Nagasaki
Day 7 Fugen-Dake
Day 8 Yokohama
Day 9 Tokyo
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