Day 2 – Tokyo

Buffet breakfast at the hotel (food and company was great but the highlight was the plate collecting robot wandering around).

9am we met our tour lady Keiko who gave us a tour of a couple of shrines, some very grungy streets (my favourite) a palace, a hidden upstairs sushi restaurant, up a tower which looked like the Eiffel Tower (but wasn’t) and more street crossings and 3d advertising boards than i could ever hope for (and we loved every minute of it!).

We got back to the hotel around 5pm, had a little snooze then headed out to a little restaurant for dinner, where they somehow misheard 2 BLT sandwhich as ‘2 beers’ but other than that it was great.

Then Jane kindly let me go to Japan’s biggest camera shop which is spread across about 4 different buildings and 5 different floors to buy various things. I won’t tell you how much i spent, but i saved us a lot of money as not only were the prices cheaper than in New Zealand, but we got the 10% tax back as well!