October 19th
October 19th, 2006 at 2:54pm
| Not much to report here as this day was half lost due to our plane trip. We got into Tokyo at about 3 PM with customs guys wanting to go through rocky’s suit case for as part of their random search. We were questioned if we had a wide range of products, drugs, weapons, pornography (they should talk) or mushrooms. They didn’t open the hand luggage just pulled every thing out of the suit case which was jammed packed, They really took a liking to a few bears which were purchased in London and took them away for a x-ray (or cuddle). |
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| The train into the city took about an hour and we got to our hotel about 4. The hotel was pretty good the room had microwave, dvd, tv, video, fridge and there was even a washing machine and dryer, which was the first washing machine our clothes had seen since leaving Australia. We had previously just used the sink. |
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| We were staying in Shibiya and did a bit of exploring when it got dark, the main feature was a huge neon and video intersection which is meant to be the busiest in the world. The station handles some 2 million people a day. A vending machine restaurant for dinner, which is a Japanese treat, you up to a vending machine fill it full of yen then press the buttons against the pictures you want. You then give the ticket to the person behind the counter and they cook up the treat for you. There’s quite a few of them throughout the city and it makes things really easy to order, usually the picture looks like what you get. Fortunately we didn’t get anything with cod roe or sea urchin sauce…who knows it tasted pretty good. After a feed we picked up a few cheap beers at the convenience store and back for a sleep. |
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