Well leaving Tokyo wasn't easy. Our deadline was to reach Tokyo station at 10.30am to catch our Shikansen train south. High winds from the offshore typhoon "Melor" meant cancellation of the Chou Line (Rapid Service) that we had planned to use to Tokyo. With lots of help from station staff, almost running from one side of the Shinjuku station to the other (its BIG), around the outside, and Maureen almost being blown over by the wind at one stage outside the East entrance, we finally got in a very long queue for the subway, before we even reached the turnstiles to get in to use the Marunouchi line subway to Tokyo. It was a bit scary, the queue was long and stationary and lots of unintelligible announcements were made - we figured all was well because
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