There have not been many cruises where we didn’t just fly
straight home and this is one of them as we are going to spend the next couple
of days in Tokyo.
The good thing is that I once again have internet that is
fast and is totally free. We had free
internet on the ship but only for as long as our free minutes held out so we
couldn’t really “surf” the web if we needed to.
Also, the internet on the ship was terribly slow and it wasn’t
Celebrities fault – it was the governments and the locations.
Enough of that – we were supposed to be off the ship by
8:10am and we were finally off at 8:30am.
We found our luggage and had a cab take us to a luggage forwarding place
as it is impossible to move the amount of luggage we had by train to Tokyo. It cost us $30.00 and they took our luggage
and delivered to the hotel by 7:00pm – what a great service.
We arrived too early to check in so we checked our
luggage and went out onto the street. The
hotel fronts on a major Ginza street and there was a 2 hour massive parade celebrating
the major areas of Japan beginning and it passed right in front of the
hotel. So, we sat on a curb and watched
the entire parade – what fun. The first
units that went by could have been any college marching band and they even were
playing US music.
We ate on the street and had a fried yam for lunch. It looked like a thick pancake with lots of “stuff”
in it and was it good.
After the parade and lunch we checked into our room and
it was terribly small, even though they said they had upgraded us. We went back to the lobby and requested a
larger room – and they put us in the biggest one they had, a corner room that
is really nice. Not as large as Shanghai
and Beijing, but this is a Courtyard.
They do have drinks, snacks and breakfast for Platinum holders something
that the US Courtyards to not have which is wonderful.
After we unpacked we took a nap. Then we went to a major shopping area and
stayed until 8:00pm and even ate at a little Japanese place. The subway system here is really great;
however, we haven’t experienced rush hour yet and that may prove to be a
challenge. We will find out tomorrow.
Tonight is being spent updating the blog and tomorrow we
will have a full day of sightseeing.
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