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Tokyo Marathon 2018

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Hello, travelers and runners. This is  Kumi .   Picturesque Japan  Blog welcomes you to Tokyo Marathon! Today, we first visited Kuramae area and tracked where our friends are running using the app called " R-navi ." https://itunes.apple.com/app/ying-yuannavi-ranningu-da/id1107467189?mt=8 Well, even   if you don't know any of the runners,  you can enjoy meeting strangers. A lot of runners gave us high five. :) Watermelon!? You can see a lot of people in funny costumes. Oh, yeah! Here he is!!! Now let's walk through the Kuramae Bridge and go to the other side. Superman!! The dogs were also enjoying the event. The lady told me the one with the green scarf is "Ken" and the other one is "Atsu." Ken insisted on staying here. LOL Oh yeah! Here he comes again! A black demon!? Found her friend from Bermuda in the distance. Cute cheerleaders. Uh-oh. The yellow bus is following the r...

Tokyo Marathon Preparation Tour

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Hello, travelers and runners. This is  Kumi .   Picturesque Japan  Blog welcomes you to Tokyo. We started our tour from Shinjuku station. Today, one of the main purposes of this tour for them is to learn the transportation system of Tokyo because he's running the Tokyo Marathon and she'll be taking the subway to cheer him up. First, we visited Tokyo Teleport station by Rinkai Line. Odaiba  is really a fun place to explore. https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e3008.html Everyone says VenusFort is just like Vegas. https://www.venusfort.co.jp/multi/index_e.html The very first model of Shinkansen (bullet train). The shopping street really has the 1950-60s' atmosphere. You can see Tokyo Bay area from Decks Odaiba . Let's take the Yurikamome Line to Shimbashi station. Wow! The lady in front of us is having the Tokyo Marathon bag. Will she run? We got off at Kuramae station on Toei Asakusa line because she's planning to cheer...