Sylvia's Scenario

I already told you all about Mother's Day in Tokyo which was Day Two so now I will tell you about Day One in Tokyo, which was actually an evening.  We arrived in Tokyo in the evening because we stopped off in Yokohama for a sushi making class that lasted until about 4:30 p.m. We got to eat all our sushi that we made so we weren't really hungry for dinner at that point.  Tokyo is about a 30 minute train ride from Yokohama so we went straight to our hotel and checked in which had a nice view. We were in the Shiodome area which is a modern, tight cluster of towering high-rise hotels, office buildings and shopping complexes. Our hotel was next to a large Japanese TV station and the view looked straight over at the famous Tsukiji Fish Market that we visited last year during our trip to Japan. (Here's a couple of photos from last year.) Tsukiji Market is known as one of the world's largest fish markets, handling over 2,000 tons of marine products per...

I realized I haven't blogged all month but that's because we've been in Japan. It usually takes me a week of recovery when we return home and we returned on the 24th so I'm actually ahead of schedule! There is hardly any spare time on trips like this so I wasn't going to stress out and try to keep up on my blogging. It's so much easier to do it once I'm home. Now that I'm all caught up and rested I'm going to start off with my very special Mother's Day in Tokyo.   We spent two days in Tokyo which is an hour train ride from Nick and Sachiyo's house in Yokosuka.  We stayed overnight at a hotel in the Shimbashi/Shiodome area of Tokyo so we could maximize our time.  Nick timed our trip in Tokyo so the second day would be Mother's Day and he had three special places he wanted to take me.  The first place was called  Nicolai Bergmann Flowers and Design . I think the reason Nick thought of taking us here was be cause it had a S...