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The costs nobody plans a trip around: an eye exam, a doctor's visit, the stuff that comes up anyway.
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Ordering glasses from Zenni before you fly versus walking into JINS or Zoff once you land, broken down cost by cost, shipping time by turnaround time.
Japan requires a car seat for kids under 6 in private and rental cars, but licensed taxis are exempt. Real law, real rental process, and what we actually ride in.
Lunch, a folk museum, and meeting other full-time traveling families at a real Worldschool Pop-Up Hub event in Kawasaki. What the whole day cost, item by item.
A real November evening near Tokyo Skytree, three girls trying on puffer jackets with the tags still on. Real Tokyo November temperatures and real kids' outerwear pricing.
A rainy Osaka night walk under a clear vinyl umbrella, the kind sold everywhere in Japan. Real history, real convenience store prices, and real lost-and-found numbers.
A few December days in a Chiba apartment: a free, surprising view of Mount Fuji from the window, a casual pizza dinner, and a beer at a neighborhood izakaya. Real prices for the parts that weren't free.
Cora's actual birthday, the day before her Universal Studios Japan trip, happened in the family's Osaka apartment. Real prices for the cake, balloons, and wrapping.
Turkey in Japan runs 8,000 to 12,000+ yen from a handful of specialty importers. Here's what we cooked instead, and what a real Tokyo apartment Thanksgiving looked like.
Japan's Halloween isn't trick-or-treating, it's costumes and community events. Real Don Quijote and Village Vanguard costume pricing, and a real Halloween afternoon in Ueno.
