Tokyo Day 1 - Arrival

After a long long flight we finally arrived at Narita airport! A bit tired, but very excited! I got even more excited when i saw that even the signs at the airport were of cute characters. You know that makes me happy!

Ken, the producer was waiting for us when we came through customs and i must say it was nice not to have to figure out buses and trains and such right away. He drove us to our hotel to drop off our luggage and then it was on to Shinjuku! We had a city to explore!

We met up with the producers wife for dinner in a Tempura restaurant. It was lovely. One of those places you know you probably would not have found as a tourist on your own. After dinner we wanted to go for a walk and they wanted to show us a bit of Shinjuku. They warned us it would be crazy, but we were up for it!

It was crazy. Mainly because we were still in a daze of being awake so long. Plus just the thought that when we woke up we were still in NY and then all of a sudden we were really there! I of course noticed a Japanese arcade hall. I love grabbing machines! (Tokyo has a lot of those, i will make a seperate post with pics of all the cute grabbers) My hubby and Ken played a guitar hero type game but with huge Japanese drums (and cute characters!). Then Love tried to grab me a cute plushy. First try didn't work. A man from the venue rushed over to place the plush so it would be easier. (as in the picture) Second try. Didn't work. The man replaced it again, it now looked as only one little blow would trow the plushy into the bin, but third try, again no luck. But we laughed a lot.

By now we were getting really tired so they dropped us of at the hotel for a good night sleep. Tokyo awaits tomorrow!
Hah. You would think we would sleep through the next day. But no. We woke up at 3am! Jetlag anyone? lol. Close your eyes and get back to sleep. I really thought i had slept for hours when i woke up again, but it was only 5am by then. So we decided to get ourselves some breakfast in a nearby convenience store and get ready at a leisurely pace for a great sunny day in Tokyo.