Day 1

Good news everyone!

I’ll spare you the boring “on my way to Nippon” stories and instead fast forward to our arrival at Narita Airport. Right, first thing first. Before going through arrival procedure here’s a nice picture of the Boeing 777 we spent 11 hours on.

Boeing 777

Welcome to Nippon

Some nice and warming welcome words – unlike in the US you can actually take a picture of that without being scolded by security. The arrival procedure was fairly simple and everyone was very kind. I’m really impressed with how polite these japanese people are – we were able to book our rides to Kyoto and Kobe without any problems.

After that we bought some reserved seats for the NEX (Narita Express, train towards Tokyo) which was unecessary because the whole train was kinda empty. It took us about an hour to arrive at Shinjuku Station which you can see in the picture below. Amazed by the beautiful view we were lost for a few minutes before taking a very good guess which direction to take towards our hotel at Shinjuku Higashi. The hotel looked just like on Google Maps so it was rather easy to spot.

Shinjuku Station

I have to say I’m very impressed with Tokyo so far. The air actually smells good and the streets are very clean – at least those that I’ve seen so far. If you’re an avid anime watcher then it’s rather easy to imagine how Tokyo and its small side streets looks like – pretty much exactly like pictures in those. Here’s a little example.

Sidestreet

Eventhough Tokyo is filled with countless people we managed to see the same girl three times already – well she is a foreigner too so it isn’t hard to spot her. Here’s a picture taken on a random street. Nothing compared to the very famous crossing in Shibuya which you can see below.

Lots of people

Bad picture of Shibuya Crossing

First day was pretty tiring, we’ve been to Yoyogi Park near Harajuku Station and checked out a small part of Shibuya before hitting the bed. I promise better pictures of Shibuya and the crossing the coming days. Here’s a video of a bird playing with some foreign kids in Yoyogi Park which I think is very cute.

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