Angela's birthday happened while we were in Tokyo and we arranged to do a video call with our boys back home. Here's a video of the three angels posing for their mom (lower right corner).
Our hotel was reasonably priced and was in quite a nice location in Tokyo. Here was the view out of our hotel window to the nearby river. You could see Tokyo Sky Tree to the left (an observatory) and the beer factory to the right with the funny golden colored wavy thing.
There was a foot bath for men and women on the top floor of the hotel that we enjoyed a couple times. This was the night view from the foot bath (again similar to the one above).
Here's Angela enjoying the bath. The water was very warm, almost too hot, but it was sure nice to rest your feet after a day of lots of walking!
We did a lot of train riding. Here's a typical train car, though it can sometimes be so full that everyone is standing with no chance of having your own personal space.
Here's Angela showing her train pass that allowed us to easily navigate the 7 different train companies that serve the Tokyo area. It was like a gift card that you put money on and use till it runs out. It made traveling much faster.
We visited a very small fireworks museum that Angela's dad would have really enjoyed (he does big firework shows every year).
We also visited a sumo museum and had this funny photo taken of Angela.
There are various river boat tours you can do in Tokyo, w/ or w/o meals provided. We didn't end up doing one but we got a cool photo of some of the boats.
The video below is perhaps one of the funniest videos we've ever made. This was our funny experience of figuring out how the Japanese toilets work. We just used toilet paper.
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