Tokyo - a day of leisure

A leisurely day for Joel and I today, but not so much for the others…
Our friends decided to take Ryan to Disney Sea and kindly invited Jazzy to go along. Honestly we can’t drag ourselves two theme parks in three days, but I’m glad she can! 😂

We start the day off here with buffet breakfast, and there is again a long queue for a table, followed by another queue at most stations (particularly for the omelettes).
We all go our seperate ways from around 9.30am: Jazzy and our friends left for Disney, Joel went to the gym and I went to Wayanpuri Head Spa for a lovely 90 minute treatment. My therapist was chatty and wanted to know more about koalas and kangaroos. Her English was OK- she mostly used Google translate to speak with me during the treatment, which I found quite amusing!

Joel and I met up afterwards and we had lunch at nearby restaurant, Kurumaya Bekkan for some tempura.
Meanwhile, we were getting updates from Adrian and Ange on the wait times at Disney Sea. Unfortunately they were amiable to grab an express pass for the rides, and had to wait approx 3 hours for Toy Story Mania!!! 😩. Yes it really was THAT busy! After that, they mostly went the smaller, less popular rides (which still required a 30-40 minute wait)

Joel and I enjoyed a massage after lunch at Nagomiya Omotesando, where we had a little snooze too. I had a shiatsu and Joel chose the dry head massage.
We then window shopped along the main avenue in Omotesando, which is lined up with luxury flagship stores. We gradually make our way to Shibuya and enjoy watching the crowds walk towards us from the opposite side. We find our way to the @Cosme flagship store (in Harajyuku) - this is the Mecca equivalent but on steroids! There are even more people in her today than I recall from my last visit (again, due to holiday season and reduced hours over the new year). Joel lasted about 5 minutes before leaving for some ‘fresh air’ and I have 40 minutes to myself to test some products. We had planned to head back to the hotel afterwards, but stumbled across an LFC pop up store along the way. We had a good look while listening to the Beatles inside the store.

We had the usual pre dinner drinks and a light snack at the lounge, before meeting up with the others at Gyukatsu Motomura (the same restaurant we went to in Osaka two night ago) for beef cutlets again. Thankfully I had booked a table last month, as there was a queue (again) for a table here.
We went to a 24 hour 7-Eleven afterwards and got some dessert before calling it a night.Read more