Beijing and Tokyo

We're off on Monday for nine days in Beijing and Tokyo! We had enough frequent flyer miles to do a trip up to Tokyo, then found out that for just a few more miles we could get a stopover somewhere else, too. We added on Beijing. Both China and Japan are new countries for both of us. We've changed planes in Narita like everybody else, but that's it. Mateo and Deanna live in Tokyo these days and we'll be staying with them for the Tokyo leg, no way we could afford to do that otherwise! Beijing is first on the itinerary, however, three full days there to see all the sights in one of the fastest moving cities in Asia.