RandomlyrachelG
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Mar 22, 2016
Hello all!
I'm fairly new to the boards--and also relatively new to a love for Disney. I went to Walt Disney World with my family in January 2014 and fell in love. My husband and I moved to South China later that year, and, of course, since it was only a 3 hour metro ride away, went to Hong Kong Disneyland for our 4th anniversary. We both currently work in education-- I teach kids and he teaches adults. I'm a travel and quirky fashion blogger who's always loved writing, but until finding the Disboards, has never met people who love the Disney parks as much as I do.
We loved living in China, but last year, moved to a different Southeast Asian country. I'm sure we'll go back to China someday, and I'm sure we'll eventually make it to Shanghai Disneyland, but I'll give them a while to get the kinks worked out before trying that. I wanted to celebrate my 25th birthday big this year, and we decided to go for a trip to Japan when we found some very reasonable Air Asia flights.
Since this is our first trip to Japan, and it's relatively short, we've decided to just stay in Tokyo. We're celebrating both of our birthdays (25 and 32) during the week, and we didn't want to be constantly riding trains and trying to see absolutely everything. So this'll be a more laid-back trip than I might normally plan.
Tentative Schedule for our July trip:
Day 1 - Departing from home and arriving in Japan, late evening, finding our Airbnb.
Day 2 - Exploring the city area, probably hitting up Shibuya, Harajuku, and Ueno Park areas.
Day 3 - Spending the day in the vicinity of Yokohama and celebrating the husband's birthday.
Day 4 - Moving from our first Airbnb to the other one closer to Disney, visiting Ikspiari
Day 5 - DisneySea
Day 6 - Disneyland
Day 7 - Disney Park-hopping based on what we still want to do. My birthday!
Day 8 - Visiting Odaiba and spending the day there, and then heading home on our evening/all-night flight.
I speak/read/write Mandarin (which means I can have an educated guess at the meanings of written kanji, though the characters are not always used the same, the general meanings tend to be related) and am brushing up on my college Japanese which is woefully rusty in preparation for the trip. We're 'budget' travelers, hence the Airbnbs instead of hotel rooms--we've used Airbnb in Hong Kong and Malaysia and the USA and have always loved it--I'm excited to find out how we'll do finding our apartments in Japan!
Stil 3.5 months out from the trip so this may be a little premature, but what can I say, I'm really looking forward to it!
I'm fairly new to the boards--and also relatively new to a love for Disney. I went to Walt Disney World with my family in January 2014 and fell in love. My husband and I moved to South China later that year, and, of course, since it was only a 3 hour metro ride away, went to Hong Kong Disneyland for our 4th anniversary. We both currently work in education-- I teach kids and he teaches adults. I'm a travel and quirky fashion blogger who's always loved writing, but until finding the Disboards, has never met people who love the Disney parks as much as I do.
We loved living in China, but last year, moved to a different Southeast Asian country. I'm sure we'll go back to China someday, and I'm sure we'll eventually make it to Shanghai Disneyland, but I'll give them a while to get the kinks worked out before trying that. I wanted to celebrate my 25th birthday big this year, and we decided to go for a trip to Japan when we found some very reasonable Air Asia flights.
Since this is our first trip to Japan, and it's relatively short, we've decided to just stay in Tokyo. We're celebrating both of our birthdays (25 and 32) during the week, and we didn't want to be constantly riding trains and trying to see absolutely everything. So this'll be a more laid-back trip than I might normally plan.
Tentative Schedule for our July trip:
Day 1 - Departing from home and arriving in Japan, late evening, finding our Airbnb.
Day 2 - Exploring the city area, probably hitting up Shibuya, Harajuku, and Ueno Park areas.
Day 3 - Spending the day in the vicinity of Yokohama and celebrating the husband's birthday.
Day 4 - Moving from our first Airbnb to the other one closer to Disney, visiting Ikspiari
Day 5 - DisneySea
Day 6 - Disneyland
Day 7 - Disney Park-hopping based on what we still want to do. My birthday!
Day 8 - Visiting Odaiba and spending the day there, and then heading home on our evening/all-night flight.
I speak/read/write Mandarin (which means I can have an educated guess at the meanings of written kanji, though the characters are not always used the same, the general meanings tend to be related) and am brushing up on my college Japanese which is woefully rusty in preparation for the trip. We're 'budget' travelers, hence the Airbnbs instead of hotel rooms--we've used Airbnb in Hong Kong and Malaysia and the USA and have always loved it--I'm excited to find out how we'll do finding our apartments in Japan!
Stil 3.5 months out from the trip so this may be a little premature, but what can I say, I'm really looking forward to it!