{"id":788,"date":"2009-03-07T19:04:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T11:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/2009\/03\/07\/our-tokyo-trip-day-01-ii\/"},"modified":"2022-04-23T12:04:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T12:04:38","slug":"our-tokyo-trip-day-01-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/2009\/03\/07\/our-tokyo-trip-day-01-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Tokyo Trip Day 01 (II) – Harajuku"},"content":{"rendered":"

Date:<\/strong> 22 Feb 2009 Sunday<\/p>\n

08:25 AM Narita Airport \u00e6\u02c6\u0090\u00e7\u201d\u00b0\u00e7\u00a9\u00ba\u00e6\u00b8\u00af<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Narita Airport<\/span><\/a><\/strong> \"\" Hilton T Hotel<\/a> \"\" Harajuku<\/a> \"\" Meiji Shrine<\/a> \"\" Hilton T Hotel<\/a> \"\" Shibuya<\/a> \"\" Hilton T Hotel<\/a><\/p>\n

We couldn’t catch the 8 AM Airport Limousine Bus<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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Our bus + luggage claim tickets<\/p>\n

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Only the first & the third from the left are ours!<\/p>\n

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JR started his map reading.<\/p>\n

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6.0 degrees Celsius – cold…<\/p>\n

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Found this boy dancing & admiring his own reflection in the glass – so cute right?<\/p>\n

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Narita Airport<\/a> \"\" Hilton Tokyo Hotel<\/span><\/a><\/strong> \"\" Harajuku<\/a> \"\" Meiji Shrine<\/a> \"\" Hilton T Hotel<\/a> \"\" Shibuya<\/a> \"\" Hilton T Hotel<\/a><\/p>\n

10:00 AM Hilton Tokyo Hotel<\/strong><\/p>\n

We alighted at Park Hyatt Hotel and cross the road over to Hilton Tokyo Hotel.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

10:15 AM Depart Hilton Tokyo Hotel<\/strong><\/p>\n

Left the hotel and took a slow walk to Shinjuku Station \u00e6\u2013\u00b0\u00e5\u00ae\u00bf\u00e9\u00a7\u2026<\/p>\n

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Finding our way by reading street maps.<\/p>\n

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JR purchasing the tickets to Harajuku \u00e5\u017d\u0178\u00e5\u00ae\u00bf.<\/p>\n

Narita Airport<\/a> \"\" Hilton T Hotel<\/a> \"\" Harajuku<\/span><\/a><\/strong> \"\" Meiji Shrine<\/a> \"\" Hilton T Hotel<\/a> \"\" Shibuya<\/a> \"\" Hilton T Hotel<\/a><\/p>\n

10:45 AM Harajuku \u00e5\u017d\u0178\u00e5\u00ae\u00bf<\/strong><\/p>\n

How to get there?<\/em><\/p>\n

JR Yamanote Line \u00e5\u00b1\u00b1\u00e6\u2030\u2039\u00e7\u00b7\u0161 \"\" Shinjuku Station \u00e6\u2013\u00b0\u00e5\u00ae\u00bf\u00e9\u00a7\u2026 to Harajuku Station \u00e5\u017d\u0178\u00e5\u00ae\u00bf\u00e9\u00a7\u2026<\/p>\n

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\nClick image to enlarge<\/em><\/p>\n

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Takeshita Dori \u00e7\u00ab\u00b9\u00e4\u00b8\u2039\u00e9\u20ac\u0161\u00e3\u201a\u0160<\/strong><\/p>\n

Takeshita Dori is located just opposite the exit of JR Harajuku Station.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

11:55 AM Omotesando \u00e8\u00a1\u00a8\u00e5\u008f\u201a\u00e9\u0081\u201c<\/strong><\/p>\n

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. <\/strong>We chose a random restaurant and went in.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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Yummy! It’s really good to have something hot in the cold weathers.<\/p>\n

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We strolled back to Harajuku Station and proceed to our next place of interest – Meiji Shrine.<\/p>\n

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View my entire TRAVEL list<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harajuku, the place that we had our first meal in Tokyo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":65,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7597,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/7597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}