Tokyo Free Guide (draft)

We are very excited to meet Chikako, our Tokyo Free Guide!  (I'll actually write stuff here at some point)

You can check out their web site here - http://www.tokyofreeguide.com/

General updates (draft)

• Passport
• Japan Rail Pass

 

• Currency exchange
• Studi Ghibli tickets

Learning about Japan via YouTube

These are things we've watched on YouTube that have been especially inspiring and/or useful to us:

• Kyde and Eric - http://www.kydeanderic.com/AboutUs/
• BrotherAnnie - http://www.youtube.com/user/brotherannie
• Neko Aesthetic - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bdCAQlngrc&list=PL81AF9FFD51DB20C9

Music (draft)

Taiko No Satsujin

AKB48

Weezer

Plans for packing (draft)

These are the bags we plan to use for our trip to Japan:

How we've learned about Japan

We get bored with Lonely Planet travel guides pretty quickly so these are a few things that we've used to augment our Japanese research:

 

Big Bird in Japan:

 

Jiro Dreams of Sushi:

 

Studio Ghibli:

 

Postcard from my dad, 1989:

Totoro! (draft)

We watched - and fell in love with - Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro this weekend!

Following our adventure on Instagram (draft)

See #AmyandJohnTakeJapan for photos of our pre-Japan adventures!