{"id":3548,"date":"2001-01-27T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2001-01-27T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sch1auh0s7.site.nfoservers.com\/wp_lew1slau\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2022-04-25T16:33:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T16:33:35","slug":"tokyo-japan-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/2001\/01\/27\/tokyo-japan-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo, Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Towards the end of January I had the chance to visit Japan with my brother Philip. It was a holiday simply to get away from all the worries in the past few months, as well as a chance to see each other after two years apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The passing of our mother made me want to weave a better web amongst us brothers, Philip, Kevin, and I, simply because the original bond, my mother, isn&#8217;t here anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am sure mom would want us to stick together, through good and bad times as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During this trip, Philip and I travelled through Kyoto, Osaka, Shusenji (in Izu), and Tokyo. These are the pictures that describe our fun times during this two-week trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" data-id=\"3549\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3549\"\/><figcaption>Arrived Tokyo the night before Philip and his friend Jamie was bound to fly in from Taipei&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" data-id=\"3554\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3554\"\/><figcaption>The onboard station map shows the high speed train&nbsp;<em>Narita Express<\/em>&#8216;s current location in real time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" data-id=\"3551\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image003.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3551\"\/><figcaption>After spending an extremely relaxing evening at the Takeuchi&#8217;s (Thank you Maki and her family!), I took the local train out to Tokyo Station the next day&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" data-id=\"3550\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3550\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" data-id=\"3552\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image005.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3552\"\/><figcaption>Being one of the central stations in the Tokyo area, I naturally assumed it to be somewhat like the Grand Central station in New York City&#8230;<br>To my disappointment, the interior looks just like A DEPARTMENT STORE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"158\" height=\"210\" data-id=\"3553\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3553\"\/><figcaption>Interesting picture inside Tokyo Station&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" data-id=\"3556\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image007.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3556\"\/><figcaption>If you ever travel to Tokyo Station and need to find the&nbsp;<em>cheap shuttle bus to Haneda Airport,&nbsp;<\/em>this is the exit you need to take &#8211; the bus is located right across the street, costing 980yen (approximately US$8.50). The ride is about 40 minutes&#8230; sure beats the 6000yen or so if you take a taxi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" data-id=\"3555\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image008.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3555\"\/><figcaption>And the beautiful scenery outside the bus window towards Haneda Airport.<br><br>For those who don&#8217;t know, Tokyo area has two main airports &#8211; Narita, the international airport, and Haneda, the airport that serves domestic flights (and those coming from Taipei&#8230;)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" data-id=\"3558\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image009.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3558\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" data-id=\"3557\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image010.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3557\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" data-id=\"3559\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image011.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3559\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" data-id=\"3560\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image012.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3560\"\/><figcaption>Finally arrived the waiting area of Haneda airport&#8230; Philip&#8217;s flight even arrived early!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Towards the end of January I had the chance to visit Japan with my brother Philip. It was a holiday simply to get away from all the worries in the past few months, as well as a chance to see each other after two years apart. The passing of our mother made me want to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image011.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3613,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions\/3613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}