A walk to Tokyo In June of 1998 my friend Sean and I walked from Yokohama to Tokyo. When we had first arrived in Japan we decided that sometime during our exchange we would walk to Tokyo. It was about 20-25 miles. One Saturday after school we set out from Yokohama Station at about 1:30 and arrived at Tokyo Station about 8:45. Along the way we saw many interesting things. Just before we left the Yokohama city limits we witnessed a bicyclist get hit by a motorcyclists and minutes later saw the ambulance rush to the scene. Just after we entered Kawasaki limits we found a kitten and took it with us in my backpack. When we enetered Tokyo we stopped at an animal clinic and donated. This took about an hour, but we knew we couldn't keep it and it wouldn't survive on the street. When we were in front of a train station in Tokyo we also saw a couple break up. The girl was really steamed and jumped out of the car screaming at the guy in the middle of traffic. Sean and I found it quite amusing. After we got to Tokyo Station we ate dinner at a ramen hut and came back on the train. We treated ourselves to the luxory car because we believed we deserved it. It was a lot of fun. You should do it sometime.

Yokohama Station is where we started.  We passed all these places before getting to Tokyo

The Tokyo Tower

Signs marking how far it was to Nihonbashi, an area of Tokyo about a mile from Tokyo Station.

It is hard to see, but the charactors written on the rock above stand for Tokyo Station.  We made it.

A cat we found on the sidewalk in Kawasaski. We named it Nazo which means enigma in English. We chose this name because we didn't know where it came from and how it ended up on the street.  I carried it for five mile in my back pack before we gave it to a vetrinarian clinic in Tokyo.

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