12 Apr 2026, Sunday

Prioritized Daily Task - Nara and Tokyo

Send luggage to hotel The Westin Yokohama- Confirmation #87255380 KING bed

Breakfast at hotel

9:00am- Nara Park (no reservations needed)

■ Taxi (10 min)

■ Feed the deer

10:30am- Todai-ji Temple (no reservations needed)

■ 10 min walk

Lunch at Nara

2:00pm- travel to Kyoto Station

■ Kintetsu Line orJR Nara Line (45 min)

4:07pm- Bullet train to Tokyo (2.5 hours)

Hotel: The Westin Yokohama

Note: Met a man in line to catch a shuttle to the monkey park. His name was Mervin, from Germany, who was also staying in the J.W. Marriott Hotel. He brought up the subject of the trimmer in my left hand. I told him I had seen doctors, and they told me there is nothing that can be done to stop them. Mervin said he had them, and his was much worse. He shook so badly that he would sling food while trying to eat. He is a retired veterinarian, and an old man told him about Primidone, an epileptic medicine that has been around for many years. He took one tablet, 250 mg, 3 times a day. He said it completely stopped his shaking.

Debbie's report of the day, Sunday! We went to the Nara Park where deer run in open spaces by the big bronze Budda. It is a large park. Everyone slept in and so we got a slow start. The children loved seeing and feeding the deer. They bow their heads for food and some get quite anxious if others get fed before them! They but you with their heads, antlers and sometimes nip at your leg or buttocks if they smell the wafer deer food on you!

Elain and Lori Lynn met us and we took pictures feeding the deer. We took two Uber/taxi's to the train station and then to the main station were were runniing late and got separated. Debbie and I knew our train was leaving as we arrived. We saw a train for Tokyo; we thought Matthew, Melodie, Bella, Ava, and Vickie were ahead of us. We got on the train knowing if we are seperated it will be better to be seperated in Tokyo, a city, instead of the whole country of Japan. About 10 minutes after we left the station Matthew called. They missed the train and were still back at the station we left. The conductor or ticket inspector checked our ticket. He did not speak English but he let us know we were on the wrong train and must get off. I tried to communicate that we are afraid we will get on the wrong train again and be lost somewhere in Japan. We know our children are going to Tokyo and it would be best if we stayed on the train we are now own. He did not know what I was saying and I had a feeling we should get off. Later we got a phone call from Matthew and all of them were on a train headed to Tokyo. When our train stopped we got off each with a bag. We could not read the Japaneese words on the signs and was trying to find something that matched what the young ticket inspector had written down for us. We had gone to the end of the station on the main level. There are levels above and levels below with trains going and coming. The young ticket inspector's shift ended and he could not get a trin to his home because it wall full. He started looking for us and helped us get on the correct train to Tokyo Station. We were in the non-assigned seats. When we had traveled not stopping at each station as the train we were previouls on was doning. Melodie started trying to locate us on her 360 cell phone app. Se saw we were traveling the same direction, at the same speed, and stopping when they stopped. She told Matthew that we are all on the same train. They called us. We were in car 5 and they were seated in car 15, I went up and visited with Bella and Ava. I came back so Debbie got off together. We met them. Every one was astonished how we got seperated at the train station in Kyoto. We got on different trains, none of which our ticket were orginally for, and wind up on the same train getting off at the same train station in Tokyo. We stopped and got some food before checking in The Westin Yokohama Hotel. Matthew came to our room and we had prayer. Later Debbie and I had prayer together before going to bed.