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Asia » Japan » Tokyo » Harajuku June 30th 2009

We were up at about 8am today. Good for us. We had breakfast downstairs in our hotel. A japanese take on a western breakfast. Interesting. You take your food on your plate then on a tray to eat at your table. When finished they clear your tray. Although it was "buffet" we seemed to be the only ones going back for more. Today was for Bec to have a look at a few different neighbourhoods in Tokyo and use the language. Firstly we were going to go to the Japanese Government building in Shinjuku where there is a free observation deck. But the weather was overcast with fine mist rain that we gave it a miss. We were having some mobile phone issues which Justin sorted and we headed to the Isetan department store for the ... read more
intersection Shibuya
Justin at lunch
Harajuku

Asia » Japan » Tokyo » Shinjuku June 29th 2009

Well today has been a long day. It was 5am when we left the Coast and had an uneventful (thank God) trip down to Brisbane airport. The flight left pretty much on time at 8.45am and we were pretty impressed with the service of JAL. We checked in using the web the day before and picked our seats. Justin got to sit by himself. We were fed a few times on the flight and generally well looked after. We arrived at Narita airport about 5.15pm and had to take a airport limousine (read bus) to the terminal. Once through customs we purchased the Nex and Suico cards we would be using the next couple of days. The Nex is used to take us from the airport to Tokyo and the Suico card is used on the ... read more
Sign on platfom floor of station
First of many vending machines
At Shinjuku




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