Earlier this year, three of my brothers, my sister, and I went to Tokyo for five days. I took lots of pictures but never put them anywhere. I’m posting them here with a small learning of mine.
Tokyo was my first time traveling to a “English isn’t very common”-speaking place. Everywhere else I’ve been either spoke Spanish, or had English as a second language/taught in schools. When I landed, I was almost caught off guard. All the metro signs were in Japanese. The ATM was in Japanese. At Disney Sea, the rides and safety instructions were in Japanese. Menus were in Japanese (we did a lot of pointing to photos, totally guessing what we were ordering). It might sound naïve: “Duh Emily. You’re in Japan. They speak Japanese.” and perhaps next time I will download the Google Translate app beforehand. But adjusting wasn’t hard. Communication is communication. It was a really valuable experience. Konnichiwa.
Bakeries knew how to do it 
Tower of Terror at DisneySea 
View from up the Tokyo Metropolitan Building 
classic Koi pond
officially landing 
DisneySea rope drop 
snacking 
Shinjuku Garden & Patrick 
outside the Sensoji temple
classic theme park ride photo 
walking down Hozomon Gate 
Sensoji temple 
bar tab at Disney 
farmer’s market
my sister and I went to a cat cafe 
the Emperor’s house…we think
we went to this insane show… 
…where we had to walk down a shroom-like staircase… 
…and were giving light-up batons… 
…to wave around…. 
…and it was insanely loud…. 
…but the performance was good
my name in Japanese 
Godzilla Statue
they had such interesting things there 
Meiji Shrine 
