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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?
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.