Our friend Kate had some time off so she came to visit us in Japan! We took her to some cool spots in Tokyo.

We are all foodies so we went to get top rated ramen, fluffy pancakes, trendy chestnut desserts, etc.

Walking around the city is one of my favorite activities because you never know what adventures you’ll have. We happened across Tokyo’s Pokémon Center!

Not quite Seattle, but Tokyo has a burgeoning coffee scene. We went to Glitch coffee where they get the best beans from around the world and make it as perfectly extracted pour overs. I didn’t use to think much of coffee notes until trying coffee from Glitch.

Forrest loved the Art Aquarium Museum that hosts 30,000 living goldfish on display in really cool and unique ways. Forrest loved seeing the fish and saying “fshhh.”

We went on a food tour around Tokyo that took us to 5 different restaurants/izakayas and allowed us to try food from around Japan. We also got to walk around other parts of the city we didn’t know about before, like “piss alley” so named because there didn’t use to be a restroom there (thankfully there is now!), as well as around Kabukichou.

We ended the tour with delicious taiyaki desserts. Forrest is definitely a foodie!

One of the highlights of our trip to Tokyo was TeamLabs Borderless. It’s basically an art museum that you walk through that doesn’t follow a map or route. You can go anywhere and every room is different. Forrest loved all the projected interactive designs.

Since we couldn’t take Forrest to a sumo match (you have to be at least 3), we took him to a sumo experience. At the sumo experience, retired sumo wrestlers showed us the rules and did matches for us to watch while we ate sumo wrestler food (hot pot). Leanne got to compete against one of the sumo wrestlers and won!

The last highlight was Tokyo Disneyland! We stayed at the one of the Disneyland hotels so Forrest could take a nap during the day. Forrest loved all the rides, food, characters, and music! While Forrest napped during the day (I went back to the hotel with him), Leanne and Kate went on a Disneyland food tour and ate all the fall exclusive goodies.