Dec 27 - Tokyo

We had a well deserved rest and sleep in, arising after 8am. We grabbed breakfast from the local supermarket and combini around 9am. We then walked to Nishi-nippori station, activating our metro cards, and rode the 2 stops to Nezu shrine. After this hubby wanted to see the statue of Hachiko's reunion at Tokyo University. From here it was back to Nezu station to continue riding the Chiyoda line to Akasaka.

We visited Akasaka as hubby and the kids had not seen the Harry Potter station and surrounds. The Christmas tree was still up. We walked from here along the street to Bingo Sports where they have an Apollo Hypercar, one of 10 in the world. By now the troops were hungry.

We headed further along the train line to Harajuku. At 1:30 we were seated at Teddy's Bigger Burgers Hawaii, for you guessed it, a burger. They had a GF burger. After this we walked Harajuku with the kids who did some shopping. This place was packed solid with people.

From Harajuku we decided to head to Shinjuku to take the kids up the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building. We went up at 5pm and waited longer in the line down than we spent up there looking. We missed the first 10mins of the projections on the side of the building, but watched some. Hubby and kids wanted to watch the start, so we waited the 15mins for the next show. After watching it we headed for the Yamanote line and rode the 18mins back to our digs.

For ease we grabbed bentos from the place across the street and dessert from the supermarket. And that ended our day.Read more