Rail Pass

Kenny is here, and the sightseeing begins. (And Mike, I promise to take a picture of Kenny tomorrow, just for you. I don't know how I ended up with only pictures of me today.)
We took care of the rail pass business first thing. With Japan Rail, you need to purchase a voucher before you enter the country, and this voucher can then be redeemed for unlimited travel for a certain number of days. We now have most of train travel set for next week. The Japanese bureaucracy requires first visiting one office to exchange the rail pass for a voucher (the rail pass has no less than four official stamps. There were also stamps on the reciept.) and then we had to visit another office for the actaul train tickets.
More later.