It was finally a morning where we didn't have to wake up super early. We have another 2 days in Tokyo and I didn't plan crazy schedule, assuming that we would be tired by now. Lucky for that bcos my ankle wouldn't agree with a crazy schedule.
We stayed in a hotel, which meant that there was pick and choose bfast!
The plan for the morning was to Tsukiji Outer Market for bfast but we didn't wake up early enough and the hotel fed us. We took our time thus. Thank goodness that there were quite some escalators and lifts in the stations.
I have 2 other layers under my tights. Tokyo was less cold after the Madarao snow. We have accustomed? Hmmm..
There was already a crowd the moment we exited the station. As we were switching hotel, we had our luggages with us and needed to find a coin locker. We found on Google on the coin lockers' location and found them right outside of the market. That also meant that we had to jostle with the crowd with our luagges, which was a pain.
We got a pamphlet on the market's layout but it was too crowded to attempt to find a particular stall. We simply walked blindly.
Fortunately, we found empty big lockers for our luggages. It was impossible to navigate the narrow lanes and the crowd with the luaggages. We had to pay about SGD6 per lockers. Just take my $$.
We saw plenty of seafood but other than Daddy Lim, we are no fan.
We are not foodie and normally would not queue or pay too much for food. With the large crowd and long q everywhere, we were very lost. It was expensive too. We saw long Qs for SGD20/ skewer wagu beef. After a while, we lost interest and decided that it was time to go.
Our next destination was the Akihabara. We had to look for coin lockers again. In our excitement to exit the station and conquered the stairs, Daddy Lim and Zaky started lugging the luggages.
When we lugged them all the way up the stairs and out of the station, we didn't see any coin locker. Ya, they were back down where we started. Lol. This time, it was SGD7/locker.
We searched for lunch after we settled the luggages. We saw this "meat" place and the kids were very keen. I am amazed at how much meat the kids can eat.
With a happy tummy, we started our adventure.
Akihabara was busy but a different kind of busy from Shinjuku.
There are buildings and buildings of claw machines, cagapon machines, and some either musical or old school arcade games.
The kids were very happy; we lost a lot of $$ to claw machines and cagapon. Lol.
We stayed in Akihabara until early evening and decided to go find our Airbnb. We had adapted to Tokyo's complicated subway system and realised that we had to retrieve our luggages from the coin lockers at this subway line bcos we need to take another subway line. It would take me forever to walk; Daddy Lim went with Nana to collect the luaggages while I waited with Zaky at Starbucks.
Zaky was wearing Daddy Lim's light jacket. Almost fitting le.
Zaky was wearing Daddy Lim's light jacket. Almost fitting le.
Our airbnb for the next 2 nights was at Nakano Station. It was a walk from the station but shorter walk as compared to the last Airbnb and so much bigger.
Other than 2 double beds, it has a good sized bathroom and kitchette. It has a bathtub too but nobody has the energy do long baths.
We unloaded out luggages and went for dinner at a nearby restaurant. We were attracted by the gyozas but they were so-so only. Then the other food were very Chinese.
Back at the Airbnb, we settled down and Nana was quick to fix up the toy that we just bought from Akihabara.
My ankle swelling had gone down too.
Mummy Lim
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