At YVR prior to takeoff. It’s a 10 hour flight to Narita airport.
It’s a long flight. Landon and I play poker, watch movies and say “are we there yet?” more times than I care to count. Boring but uneventful which is good. We land safely then the juggling starts. I have to purchase a Suica card for Landon for use on transit and load it with money, then I find the place where I can send our luggage to the hotel so we don’t have to haul it on the train. Then we have to find JR East to purchase tickets on the Narita Express to take us in to Tokyo. We accomplished all that and were on the train into Tokyo two hours later. Very comfortable ride in but when we got to Tokyo station what a mad house. It was rush hour and it was packed. So glad we weren’t pulling luggage!
We decide to walk to our hotel which is only 20 minutes and after 10 hours sitting on the plane we could do with the exercise. Google Maps gets us there. It’s a lovely evening. We check in to Tosei Hotel Cocone Kanda and go to find a 7-11 for dinner.
Get some gyoza, chicken skewers, edamame and sushi. Quite a meal and we’re wiped. It’s lights out at 9:00 pm.
Landon modelling our housecoat and slippers provided by the hotel. Lots of toiletries provided. Very nice.
It’s our first full day so we head off to Asakusa to see the Senso Ji Temple and shop the Nakamise Street which has 89 shops on it. It’s so hot. It’s around 34 degrees so not too comfortable. We try to find shade when we can. There are some misters which help but we do take cover in a Starbucks for a cold latte and enjoy their air conditioning.
We walk around then decide to get on the train and go to Ueno as there is a park and zoo there that we thought we could check out.