Japan 2018

After collecting our luggage our first job was to locate the Exchange Office for our rail passes.
Over to April and the job she would have to take on for the entire trip, well almost.
It was a long process as we had purchased four 7 day passes then thought about it and purchased another four 7 day passes for the second week. This proved to be an advantage but more about that later. We were all given a rail pass lanyard to carry our passes in and hang around our necks.
We also had to purchase Suica cards to ride on the Subway trains, the cards were 5 yen each then you loaded money on to it as required.
Next we had to catch a train to Asakusa which looked close on the map but took over an hour.
There was a friendly guy on the train that asked if we needed help, he worked for a Japanese domestic Airline, had finished work and was on his way to his girlfriend's place. He spoke English which we were to find was a rarity on our travels.Read more