We arrived in Japan at 6am. We got through customs quickly and spent an hour at the Jr office exchanging our rail passes. We caught a bus to Tokyo and walked across the city to our hotel. We dropped off our bags, went to the local shrine and then to ToKyo Tower to climb up to see the view, amazing! We had Starbucks for lunch and then visited the local Shiba Fire Station,where Andrew swapped badges with the locals.The best part of the day was the vending machines, you can buy coke, hot coffee, noodles, icecreams, beer and even undies. These machines can be found on every street corner and coke is only yen150yen ($1.50).
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