Ok, the title is a little misleading. My wife and I just got back from a great 2 week trip to Japan. The last time I went to Japan was over 10 years ago right after we got married. This time the main reason we went was for her sister's wedding, but we did end up doing a solid week of sight seeing all over the country and this included a tour of a Toyota factory! I thought I'd share the sights we saw on our journey.
We started out in Tokyo where a Japanese friend of ours lives and could show us around. Our flight got in around midnight and we checked into our hotel. This was pretty typical of the size of the rooms we stayed in. Small by US standards but not bad. Still larger than a cruise ship cabin. Since we were traveling by train everywhere, those two backpacks were the only luggage we had.
It turns out that governments all around the world are just as inefficient as ours. There, it takes 4 guys to paint an arrow on the ground.
This the district of Akihabra, which is known for selling electronic gadgets. You mostly go there to people watch because all the weird anime people go there, kinda like going to Comicon.
The newly opened Tokyo Sky Tree was pretty cool. It's the worlds tallest tower. Not building, but tower, like the Eiffel tower. It pretty much dwarfs every other sky scraper around.
Heading back to our hotel at light speed.