Breakfast at the ryokan was more delicious than dinner since there were no gelatinous or sticky substances (no nattou yet). It included smoked salmon, a scrambled egg concoction, roll your own maki, a vegetable and fish cake soup, miso soup, local yogurt, and more. Hora (see the pictures).

It’s hard to know exactly what day it is at this point, but the jet lag mitigation plan seems to have worked. We’re tired but fully functional. Japan is by far the most confusing place to navigate of any of our foreign in destinations. Addresses are nonsensical at best. Places…

Japan in T-minus 14 hours. My great plan is to have already shifted my day by 6 hours (thanks Diablo III) leaving only another 6 hours of jet lag. We arrive in Tokyo at 11 pm local time so I can just go to sleep “normally” when we arrive. Of…