Hello Tokyo
6 Jun
We said goodbye to Okinawa, but hello to Tokyo!
We left Okinawa and arrived in Tokyo on the 4th during the evening sometime and wanted to get to the hotel quickly after dropping our pet off at the Pet hotel in Narita Airport so we decided to take a taxi to our hotel. The taxi was probably the most expensive cab ride my wife and I have ever experienced, costing nearly $250! I guess that is a lesson learned from this trip.
We are actually staying at a nice hotel named the Park Hotel Tokyo . After checking in to our room, my wife and I noticed that it was missing something, that something was space! The room here in Tokyo is about $20-$30 more a night but offers one-third of the space the room in Okinawa offered. I guess that is all part of the big city experience.
Our first full day we ventured to Shibuya to experience an absolutely crazy metro station during peak hours and also to Akihabara to take a look at what Tokyo has to offer in regards to electronics. No surprises, they have everything.
The great thing is that I got pretty sick and stayed in bed all day yesterday. I am writing this today with hopes that I will feel a little better and venture out to see a couple more sites.
Here are a couple pictures from before I got sick.
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Sorry about the cab ride. I was gonna say you should take the Subway. Ash and I went from our hotel to Tokyo Disney, took about 20 mins on the Subway and boy was it crowded. The cost was around $3.
You should see the subway at 6, its bad. If you have seen the subway traffic in DC and Virgina and think thats bad, Tokyo will blow your socks off.
Okinawa – Check
Tokyo – Check
Now Hawaii is next on the list. Good luck.