This morning I ran 3 miles around Odori Park and then Camden and I had breakfast at the hotel (rice balls again, good thing I like rice=) Our 1st stop was the clock tower and it's museum. The clock was made in Boston, MA and was shipped over to the town of Sapporo for the Hokkaido Agriculture College. Next, we walked through the Botanic Gardens which is also a part of the College. The gardens in Japan are absolutely beautiful!!! After walking more than 7 miles on our tour of the city, we finally arrived at the Sapporo Beer Museum [View Full Entry]

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A day in Sapporo, Japan. We are in the northern area of Japan in the region of Hokkaido today. Tour of Shadai Farms: We had a breakfast of rice balls and miso soup, a baguette and green tea. We took the express train to Shadai Farms and were able to view 3 of the mares and their foals, next we went to the stallion station to view the three sires of the foals we saw: Fuji Kiseki, Deep Impact, Agnes Tachyon. We were also able to view War Emblem. Shadai Farms has 3 horses in the upcoming Japan Derby: Reach [View Full Entry]

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I used to work with a Japese fellow, we called him Adam, at the University of KY Cardiovascular research center. He recently moved back to Okayama, Japan. We told him of our trip to Japan and he graciously offered to fly to Tokyo to show us around the city. First, we had breakfast at a cafe. When you think of breakfast you think bacon and eggs right? Not here, they eat everything from hot dogs, rice balls to miso soup for breakfast. Lucky for me they had muffins=) After we headed to Tokyo Tower and went to the top to [View Full Entry]

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Last night we went to Kokubunji (I think) area and had dinner at Acadia. While the food was good, the neighbor was very different, it was like a mix of video game arcades, porn shops with curtained entrances, and tons of people on the streets trying to sell you stuff.....Oh, and the whole place looked like Times Square on crack., soooo many lights everywhere! This morning we had breakfast at the hotel since most cafes don't even open until 10am. The travel guide wasn't joking when they said it was more expensive. The food was a wonderful blend of western and [View Full Entry]

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I just wanted to let everyone know that we arrived safely and tiredly last night at the Narita airport. We are staying at the Keio Plaza Hotel in Shinjuku, Tokyo through Friday. Then we will fly out of the Haneda airport on Friday night to go to Northern Japan to Saporro to visit the horse farm on Saturday. Then its back to Haneda airport on Monday morning then to the Narita airport that evening to fly to Bangkok, Thailand. We will keep you posted whenever we have internet access. I love it here in Tokyo, everything is so clean, so [View Full Entry]

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