Date: 22 Feb 2009 Sunday

08:25 AM Narita Airport 成田空港

Narita Airport Hilton T Hotel Harajuku Meiji Shrine Hilton T Hotel Shibuya Hilton T Hotel

We couldn’t catch the 8 AM Airport Limousine Bus to Hilton Tokyo Hotel. Instead of waiting for the 08:55 AM bus, we decided to take the 08:35 AM bus to Park Hyatt Tokyo Hotel since it is just opposite our hotel. We bought the “Limousine & MetroPass” promotional tickets which contain one way ticket of Airport Limousine between Narita Airport to any city of Tokyo and one day ticket of unlimited rides on Tokyo Metro which is valid on any of its lines for one full day.

Our bus + luggage claim tickets

Only the first & the third from the left are ours!

JR started his map reading.

6.0 degrees Celsius – cold…

Found this boy dancing & admiring his own reflection in the glass – so cute right?

Narita Airport Hilton Tokyo Hotel Harajuku Meiji Shrine Hilton T Hotel Shibuya Hilton T Hotel

10:00 AM Hilton Tokyo Hotel

We alighted at Park Hyatt Hotel and cross the road over to Hilton Tokyo Hotel.

Check in can only be process after 2 PM. We left our luggages with the hotel and proceed with our sight seeing. The check in can wait till later.

10:15 AM Depart Hilton Tokyo Hotel

Left the hotel and took a slow walk to Shinjuku Station 新宿駅

Finding our way by reading street maps.

JR purchasing the tickets to Harajuku 原宿.

Narita Airport Hilton T Hotel Harajuku Meiji Shrine Hilton T Hotel Shibuya Hilton T Hotel

10:45 AM Harajuku 原宿

How to get there?

JR Yamanote Line 山手線 Shinjuku Station 新宿駅 to Harajuku Station 原宿駅


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Takeshita Dori 竹下通り

Takeshita Dori is located just opposite the exit of JR Harajuku Station.

My boots were killing my feet after all the walking the whole morning. JR went to get for me a pair of super comfortable shoes from Ainz & Tulpe, one of the Watsons- lookalike shop.

11:55 AM Omotesando 表参道

Our first meal in Japan! Both of us couldn’t decide what to have for lunch. There are so many restaurants everywhere! We finally decided to have something “hot” since it’s freezing. We chose a random restaurant and went in.

We ordered our Ramens and were given “tokens” of different colours which were then handed to the kitchen staff. We were then asked to queue up at a corner, along the marked line.

The restaurant can only hold up to 20 customers at any one time. The wait wasn’t very long. We were served almost immediately after we sat down.

Yummy! It’s really good to have something hot in the cold weathers.

We strolled back to Harajuku Station and proceed to our next place of interest – Meiji Shrine.

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