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We ate the poisonous puffer fish at Tokyo’s Tsukiji Fish Market
Tokyo is home to some of the most fascinating spectacles in existence and one of those is here at Tsukiji: the largest fish market in the world. In the wee morning hours you can find individual tuna selling for as much as $3 million. But we’re not that hungry or that rich, so we’re in search of other delicacies, like the famous fugu fish, which, with a toxin 1000 times more deadly than cyanid, can kill you just by touch. Will our gastro-adventurous family risk eating it just for bragging rights?
Experiencing Nagano: Ramen, Ninja, and the Olympic Memorial
We're bullet training through the birthplace of ninja to meet back up with our favorite fellow filming fam: MomDuty! And while we're sharing a mountainside Nagano chalet for the weekend, we figured we might as well put all four kids through a little ninja training themselves.
Scoring big with Osaka's winning food scene
After a few great days amongst the historic charm of Kyoto, we've traveled 50km southwest to the bustling Japanese metropolis of Osaka. Known as "Japan's Kitchen," it's no wonder this city's famous for its fantastic food scene. So we're tightening our shoelaces, loosening our waistbands and spending the entire day walking from bite to bite to see which parts live up to the hype.
How to find geisha and other Kyoto culture in Japan
It’s our second day in Japan's historic city of Kyoto and we’re about to pack five thousand years’ worth of authentic sites and bites into just a few hours. From samurai tea to shinto shrines. From alleyway foods to dancing geisha. And all from our home base at the Four Seasons Kyoto.
First Impressions of Kyoto, Japan's Gion District
After spending our first night in Japan in a cramped robot hotel in Tokyo’s Ginza district, we took a cross-country bullet train to class things up significantly: We’re spending two nights at the five-star Four Seasons Kyoto, where we’ll soak up their 800-year-old family-friendly luxury and devour our first bites of true Japanese sushi. But... why the long face?
Japan's bullet train experience: Tokyo to Kyoto in JR's Green Car Class
We're leaving Tokyo on a 2-hour trip to Kyoto, at speeds above 300 kilometers per hour, without leaving the ground. We're doing it by taking the world-famous Shinkansen bullet train between cities. And we booked their first-class "green car" to see if it's worth the extra cost.
Day 1 in Tokyo: robot hotel, robot ramen, robot everything
On our first night in Tokyo, we're relying exclusively on robots to facilitate the entire stay. Transportation? Planned by ChatGPT. Dinner? Recommended by ChatGPT. And an overnight in the Guinness Book of World Records' first certified robot hotel.