Tokyo, home for New Year

27 Dec 2025 – 4 Jan 2026 · Japan

9 days2 stops1 country83 km

My mother, my nephew, three million people at Meiji Jingu, and eleven breakfasts in the city I used to live in.

Day 1 27 Dec
1

Tokyo 🇯🇵

Japan · 8 nights

My old neighbourhood, my old bakery, my old train at 7:42.
Day 8 3 Jan
2

Lake Kawaguchi 🇯🇵

Fujikawaguchiko, Japan

Two hours by bus for Fuji on a clear winter morning.

27 Dec

Tsukiji Outer Market 🇯🇵Tokyo, Japan
Breakfast #139: tamagoyaki on a stick, tuna on rice, coffee from a man who's been there since 1978.
29 Dec

Shibuya Sky 🇯🇵Tokyo, Japan
The crossing from 229 metres up. Three thousand people, zero collisions. Every time.
30 Dec

teamLab Planets 🇯🇵Tokyo, Japan
Wading barefoot through a room of floating flowers. My nephew now thinks all museums are like this. Sorry, all museums.
1 Jan

Meiji Jingu 🇯🇵Tokyo, Japan
Hatsumōde with my mother and three million strangers. Drew a fortune: small luck. She says that's the best kind.
1 Jan

Sensō-ji 🇯🇵Tokyo, Japan
Asakusa at seven: the gate, the incense, the shops still shuttered. Breakfast #141 is melon pan from the stall that opens at eight.
2 Jan

Lake Kawaguchi 🇯🇵Fujikawaguchiko, Japan
Fuji completely clear, snow to the shoulders, upside down in the lake. It never does this. It did this.

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