Thomas Visit to Japan

My newlywed sister Michelle and her husband Dallin came to Tokyo for a visit, shortly after my parents left.  We hit a few of the same tourist spots, but mostly we tried new places.  I knew that Dallin could only handle so many shrines before he went batty, so I tried to pick "active" tourist adventures!

SHOWA KINEN PARK

Does this remind you of, "The Never Ending Story"?

Dallin caught "some" air on the marshmellow mounds... uh, wow

Michelle had better toe-touches than me and she never even did cheer

Dallin lured quite a crowd of school kids and like the Pied Piper, they followed him around until he was forced to make a quick getaway

Tulip Festival at Showa Kinen

 HAKONE Open Air Art Museum

Creative nets with crawling holes to climb in and out

Dallin... now you see him, now you don't

Feeding the COY FISH, Michelle actually pet one :)

At the end of the museum path, there is a FOOT SPA... ahhhh so nice

Then we rode the ropeway to the OWAKUDANI NATURAL HOT SPRINGS

This area is famous for KUROTAMAGO which means black egg

(even Hello Kitty is dressed in a black egg costume for this tourist hit)

Steam comes from the hot springs and there is a heavy sulphur smell in the air...

PEEE EWWW

The eggs are cooked in the sulphur water and it turns them black

They were stinky and looked wierd, but actually YUMMY!

 

HAMARIKYU GARDENS during SAKURA season

Tea House in the center where we had Matcha Tea

HEIWA NO MORI Obstacle Course Park

We all fell into this water and became completely soaked

(bummer...pictures accidentally got deleted )

ZOZOJI Buddhist Temple

Cool idea to lean on these huge red doors... uh, wet paint? 

And now a stain to always remember Tokyo.

TOKYO TOWER

Bye Bye Michelle and Dallin... we had fun!