Perhaps you noticed the massive Grand Seiko coverage on our Instagram (stories) already, but last week our Grand Seiko readers journey took place in Japan. With a some of our readers (from the United States, Belgium and Germany) who signed up for this trip, we visited the Grand Seiko manufactures in Morioka and Shiojiri.Grand Seiko Readers JourneyWhen I visited Seiko back in 2015, as part of their Seiko Media Experience tour, I got so enthusiastic that I asked our publisher (Ebner Publishing, who also has WatchTime, Watch-Insider, Chronos and Uhren Magazine in their portfolio) if we could do anything like this for our readers. With the help of Seiko Germany and Seiko Watch Corp in Japan, we were able to put together a similar trip (as the 2015 one that I reported here) for our readers.In this first part I will mainly report about our visit to Shiojiri, where the Seiko Epson manufacture is located. The day before (so Day 0 ;)), we had a beautiful sight-seeing trip in Tokyo, to get a bit used to the environment and habits in Japan. We visited the Tokyo Sky Tree as well as a temple and had a traditional lunch (and welcome diner). For some, it was also time to visit some of the watch boutiques and electronic malls that can be widely found in Tokyo.