Chad introduced me to geocaching years ago, but he doesn't like to do it much anymore so these days I usually hunt them by myself. He did get me a really nice GPS a year or two ago but unfortunately it didn't come with maps of Japan (I think there are some you can buy now but they can get pretty pricey). No matter though, because now there is an iPhone app (made by the official site) that works really well.
This was not the first time I had looked for a cache here in Japan, I nearly got irretrievably lost in Ginza looking for one and risked a divorce trying to find one in Odaiba with Chad. I prefer the method of geocaching whereby you look for them during the normal course of your day if you have some time to kill (the iPhone app makes this super easy). This is also called "caching-for-numbers" because you can find a lot this way (i.e. run up your "found" number) but the downside is you can see some pretty boring caches in annoyingly crowded places. Some people only cache when they can make an event of it and concentrate on the more interesting/isolated caches---this is more what we did when we first started geocaching.
At any rate, after our Krispy Kreme breakfast Sunday morning, Chad headed off to Akihabara and I fired up the app. There are about a million geocaches in Tokyo and more throughout the rest of the country. I can tell by the descriptions and logs (on the website) that Japanese people geocache too, but fortunately most of them are are written in English.
It took me about three minutes thanks to a good hint and a low difficulty level.
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| the cache |
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| contents (I didn't take anything to move, who knows when I'll find my next one) |
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| signing the logbook...I realized while looking at this photo that I dated it in August rather than October...I don't know what I was thinking. I noted it on the weblog later. |
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| standing next to where I found it |
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