Day One in Japan

I arrived in Japan bright and early this morning at around 7AM, after having almost no sleep on the 12 hour flight. I faffed around at the airport a bit sorting out my SIM card, charging my PASMO, then set off to my hostel.

I took the monorail instead of the normal train (because monorails are so much cooler) into central Tokyo, then took the Yamanote line to where I’m staying – Space Hostel.

I needed food, so I ditched my stuff at the hostel and went for a wonder. It was raining. Not hard enough to get soaked but enough to be annoying. I found the nearest 7 Eleven, where I had a bit of a “I made it” moment while consuming a cold coffee and a pork bun.

Then I headed towards Ueno and had a bit of an explore. Although I spent half the time infront of shops sheltering from the rain. Half of them wern’t even open because most open at around 10AM. I found this nerdy game/hobby shop that was open though and had a peek inside. I wanted to buy a Pokémon plushie so bad 😦

Then I headed back to the hostel because the rain wasn’t easing and I needed a snooze.

After trying to sleep, I headed out to the same 7 eleven to grab some food at around midnight. It turned out to be a bit of a walk to Ueno park and back. Thankfully it wasn’t raining anymore.

On the way crossing over the railway I captured a shot of an empty train.

On the way back my hands were freezing so I bought a hot milk tea from the nearest vending machine.

For some reason, flickr is refusing to upload pics from my Sony camera, so it’s phone photography for now.