Anchor: Instead, consider buying everything you want as you go along, using Japan's remarkably efficient and inexpensive takkyubin courier delivery services (available at the ubiquitous convenience stores) to forward your larger purchases to your hotel, where they will be waiting for you on your return to Tokyo or elsewhere.
Entailed: Instead, you may want to consider buying things as you go.
Contradiction: Japan has a system of management where you must forward larger purchases to your hotel and the service is free of charge.
Contradiction: A funeral procession.
Contradiction: The city provided us a place to compost our Christmas trees at Christmas time.
Contradiction: The captain and passengers all thought this would be a terrifying experience.
Contradiction: Have the outliers received enough attention?