Lou starts antibiotics purchased over counter in Malaysia for throat infection.
Get up and pack, ready to check out at 10am, and go to starbucks for a quick coffee before we leave, using our 2 quid yellow brolly purchased the evening before. Check out and get a taxi to JR station, Ieuan eyeing the driver suspiciously as he thinks he is taking us the long way round, and catch the Shinkansen to Tokyo. Ieuan complains of a constant (imagined) peanut sauce smell along the way, which Lou is completely unable to smell!
Pass the Sanyo Solar Ark building – completely covered in solar panels, get to Tokyo station and put our luggage in lockers so that we can go off and do some shopping and have dinner before leaving for our hotel near the airport that night. Aveda café for lunch, then to Shibuya for some shopping. We do an intensive 1.5 hours shop then meet back at starbucks to watch the huge crossing below – the busiest pedestrian junction in Tokyo.
Catch the tube to Roppongi and go to Erewan Thai for evening meal, locking our new clear umbrellas in the umbrella stand provided! Delicious tea, then jump on the train back to the station to search for the luggage lockers we left our gear in, then go to catch the Narita Express to the airport. Get there with 25 mins to spare, only to hear an announcement saying that “due to a person being struck by a train, the train will be 20 minutes late”!
We arrive at the airport and eventually get a taxi, despite being usurped by a couple of blokes, meaning we have to wait 10 mins for the next taxi to arrive. On the plus side, quite a queue had built up behind us at this stage so at least we were first in the q. We are driven to the Holiday Inn by a decrepit 98 year old driver who we are not convinced is fully in control of the car, or even aware of the fact he is even on a road with other traffic!! Our room is very nice – we go on the internet and go to bed.
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