Our final full day in Tokyo began with Phil & I taking the Keisei Line train to the Oshieage (Sky Tree Mae) train station. At our local Aoto train station, both of us used the ticketing machines to load another 1,000 yen onto our IC cards that we primarily use to pay for train fares, […]
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