the first day in Tokyo
5 June 2008
7.10 am – MH88 arrived Narita about 30 min early than the estimated 7.40am.
After clearing everything and get the kids change to their ‘kaikai’ clothes, we headed to buy the N’EX (Narita Express) and SUICA (like our Touch ‘n go) package which is special designed for tourists. It cost 1500 Yen for the N’EX (usual price is about 3k Yen) and the SUICA card with 500 Yen refundable deposit plus 1500 Yen of value.
We are taking N’EX #6, 8.54am from Narita and reach Ikebukuro at 10.54am. We leave our luggage in the hotel and it is still too early to check in the room. The normal check-in time is 3pm, but I decided to pay for another 2000 Yen to check in 2 hours early, at 1pm as the kids are too tired! They need to good rest.
There is still plenty of time to 1pm after we had our light breakfast at Yoshinoya, so we went to see see look look at Bic Camera which is about 5 minutes away from the place. There, we bought the new babe, PS3 controller and also the Sony HDMI cable. The famous Wii is selling at 25,000 Yen there; it is about 50% cheaper than the modified version Wii in our place here.
On evening, we went to Shinjuku to buy the Hakone freepass, it cost 5,000 Yen for 1 pax and additional 870 Yen for the ‘romance car’. The ‘romance car’ is like the express train which is more comfortable and faster to Hakone. We will go to Hakone on the next day at about 7.45am.
We going back to hotel after buying the ticket as both of us need to sleep early to catch the train next day. 
Oh ya, we tapao the rice from Yoshinoya as our dinner.
That’s the first day in Tokyo, nothing special!
N’ EX #6 for Ikebukuro and Shinagawa
while waiting for the train,
lunch at Yoshinoya
our room and also the wonder of wide angle, the room look much spacious than the actual size
dinner ….
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