Tokyo, Japan Good morning, still struggling with the time change. We have a tour this morning and will get to the ship at the Tokyo International Cruise Terminal about 14:00. This morning we will visit the Meiji Shrine, Imperial Outer Gardens and the Hamarikyu Gardens. The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto shrine dedicated to the deified spirits of Emperor Meiji (1852 – 1912) and his white Express Shōken. Again, it was totally destroyed in WWII. The present iteration of the shrine

Tokyo, Japan Good morning, another early day. Still fighting the time shift. We are going to visit Asakusa & Ginza today. The truth is we aren’t visiting Asakusa but we are visiting the Senso-ji Buddhist temple. They claim is that this is the Tokyo’s oldest and most iconic Buddhist temple. The claim it was founded in 628. It may have been founded in 628 but it was completely destroyed on March 10, 1945 during WWII. It was rebuilt in the late 50’s and the pagoda was built in

Tokyo, Japan Last night was a long and restless night. Quite a bit of tossing and turning. Finally staying in bed was no longer an option so at 04:30 it was out of bed and into the bath. The hope was that a nice warm bath would help sleep return. Unfortunately, it didn’t work. Breakfast is downstairs just off the lobby in the Marble Lounge, adjacent to the St. George’s Bar beginning at 06:00. We have roughly a three and a help hour tour of Tokyo today. The pre-departure a

Wednesday & Thursday, April 15th and 16th, 2026 Sonoma > San Francisco > Tokyo, Japan This two-day transfer actually begins on Monday or Tuesday with packing and repacking for the trip. We have preordered a Blacklane car and driver to take us to the airport. We are on an airline we haven’t taken before, All Nippon Airways or ANA. ANA was founded in 1952, so it is as old as we are, as a Japanese Helicopter and Airplane Transports. It was renamed in 1957 when it merged with F