Our adventure begins for Tokyo

8th January 2025- travel day from Nagano to Tokyo. We caught the train across to Tokyo and arrived late in the afternoon. We are staying in Shinjuku and lucky we have a train station, 7-11 and Maccas close by.
Our house is a tiny little place and the mattress are traditional Japanese ones that are pretty thin and on the floor.
It's still pretty cold in Tokyo- not like Hakuba, but I thought it might be a bit warmer!
We have an awesome curry place 20m from our steps- I wish we had one this close in Darwin- but we would probably go broke.
9th January 2025: Our first day exploring Tokyo we did lots of fun stuff. First stop was a hedgehog Cafe. The hedgehogs were cool but weird at the same time. Not like the usual cafes with soft little animals to hold- they were spiky! There was lots of hedgehogs but my favourite one was called Whip. To pick them up you had to go underneath them gently and you are not allowed to touch their spikes. They also had hedgehogs for adoption. For an adult it was $80, for a baby, $500.
The Cafe was super fun but I am not sure if they liked to be picked up all the time. I let them rest if they didn't want a hold.
We went to Shibuya crossing and it was pretty quiet. There was lots of big flashy billboards everywhere and a cool fact about this crossing is that it is the most populated crossing in the world.
We had a quick sushi train for lunch and then went looking around at shops. A good shoe shop here is called ABC Mart. I could spend a bit here. Fern and I also aged st the arcade shops and got a few little toys out of the machines. They are heaps of fun but you end up putting lots of money in them.Read more