TOKYO!!!!

First, two words: Tokyo rocks!!!

Now for details … after a three hour flight from Shanghai, we landed around 1:00pm (we’re 14 hour ahead here) at Narita airport and took a 1 hour bus ride into Tokyo. Our hotel was a 5 minute walk from the bus station where we were dropped off. We checked in, changed, and took off to find some food ...

... we were after sushi and sake. So, after wandering into a few restaurants that were everything but Japanese (Mexican, Spanish, Italian), we found a place on the second floor of a building. Test #1: our waiter spoke not a lick of English. Fantastic! After lots of hand gestures and very little mutual understanding we managed to get sake for all and a couple of dishes of edamame. We couldn't find much sushi on the menu, so we decided to hit the road again in search of dinner ...

... and that's when we found it - the best possible first-night-in-Tokyo restaurant EVER! It was one of those sushi conveyor belt places but we were there early enough (5:30pm) that everything was made to order for us.

Needless to say, we ate A TON!!!

After that, we wandered a bit and of course, found a Starbucks where I ordered a tall which apparently here in Japan is teeny tiny ...

And then (this one's for you, dad!!) we were mesmerized by an arcade for a good hour and a half. We collectively put about $35 into the cranes (and did get some stuffed animals, thank you very much!!!), played some Mario Kart, and found the Japanese version of guitar hero (on the drums) - my personal favorite.

That's all for now!