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On Saturday afternoon, we flew to Tokyo, Japan, which was our fifth country in five months.<\/p>\n

Today, I got an early start and explored all over Tokyo. I started in Shinjuku<\/span>, which is where our AirBNB<\/a><\/span> was. My first stop was the famous Shibuya Crossing, which has sees about 2,500 pedestrians cross through it AT ONE TIME. This means over 2,400,000 people use this crossing in one day. I thought Sydney\u2019s public transportation was crowded<\/a>\u2026 that was EMPTY compared to this! I actually had to use the panorama setting on my phone in order to capture all the people.<\/p>\n

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Next up was the suburb of Ueno, which is famous for having the first public park in Japan. After some time in nature, I headed to Odaiba to view their Statue of Liberty replica<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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My fourth stop of the day was Ikegami Honmonji Temple<\/strong> as I was curious what a Buddhist temple looked like in Japan.<\/p>\n

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The final stop to my day exploring Tokyo was Yokohama.<\/p>\n

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First impression: Knowing what things are might be a bit difficult as it\u2019s written in Japanese symbols and not English letters. At least in Vietnam, I knew that ga meant chicken, bo meant beef, and ca meant fish.<\/p>\n

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Second impression: Holy cow. There are SO many people here. The foot traffic in Tokyo is like the scooter traffic in Ho Chi Minh City<\/a><\/span>. Granted, I was in the touristy areas of town but still\u2026 shoulder to shoulder on every sidewalk.<\/p>\n

The highlight of my day was eating at Uobei Sushi in Shibuya. I was seated in a long row of people (15 places per row, 4 rows in the restaurant).<\/p>\n

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I ordered my sushi off an iPad and it came out on a conveyor belt directly from the kitchen! You could order up to 3 plates at a time (each plate had two pieces for 100 yen).<\/p>\n

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After you took your plates off the conveyor belt, you touched a button on the iPad and it zoomed back into the kitchen. The only times I interacted with a member of the staff was when I got seated and when I paid.<\/p>\n

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This type of service keeps getting threatened to happen in America with the increase of minimum wage. I can honestly say, I had a great experience using a computer to order my meal! I was even able to customize it, no problems.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Now, I did seek this place out off a recommendation from a fellow traveler so I knew what to expect.<\/p>\n

However, for dinner tonight, I just walked into a random ramen place (Tokyo is known for ramen) and had a pretty similar experience. I walked in and ordered from a computer. After I inserted my money, it spit out a ticket.<\/p>\n

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The chef motioned for me to sit down on a particular chair (just one row of 15 seats in a bar-like setting). I handed him my ticket, watched him cook my order, and then he handed the bowl to me. Again, very minimal staff to interact with.<\/p>\n

Maybe this is how all restaurants in Tokyo are? They eliminated the middle man position.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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While the noodles had great texture, I thought the broth tasted like moldy beef broth.<\/p>\n

So gross. It\u2019s like I\u2019m eating someone else\u2019s throw up.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

After discussing this experience with Brittany and Michael later, I was informed it was probably miso-based. Safe to say, I do not like miso.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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