A Plan

[owlectomy]

This is all very contingent, and especially contingent on me bouncing back relatively quickly from jet lag (I've had bad experiences, and I've had experiences of falling down dead for a four-hour nap in the middle of the day and then being fine. We'll see.) And none of it needs to happen on a specific day except the Ghibli museum, because I've got tickets for that.

-Ueno Park at daybreak, if my jetlag wakes me up early, as I expect -- my hotel is right by there.
-Tomioka silk filature, followed by onsen in Maebashi.
-The hike in Kamakura to the large Buddha, possibly followed by wandering around Kamakura.
-Takarazuka, if I can manage to get tickets; the Tokyo one more likely than the Osaka one.
-Ghibli museum
-Wandering around the shitamachi areas of Tokyo, especially the used bookstores around Ochanomizu
-Wandering around Shinjuku, Harajuku, Ikebukuro, Shibuya, hoping to see the crowds of fashionable people around Harajuku on Sunday, and also eating crepes.

I want this to be a vacation and not a forced march of tourism, so I'm prepared to cancel any of those in favor of lying in bed watching the Japanese "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" if I get tired or stressy. (Except going to Tomioka, since I am ostensibly going for research purposes.)

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[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

GHIBLI MUSEUM!

That is all.