Chapter 1 - Arrival at Narita / Getting to the hotel / Tokyo Character Street
We arrived into Narita around 3:30PM. It was pretty crowded and the airport was much larger than I expected. My first time to Japan I flew into Yokota so the difference is literally night and day. Took a little while to figure out where the post office and JR office was. We stayed at a hotel nearby the Tokyo Station so we caught the Narita Express to get there. The Narita Express takes about a hour to get to the Tokyo Station and cost about ¥3,000 for the ordinary car or ¥4,560 for the green car.
We stayed at the Oakwood Premier in Tokyo. Originally we had booked a room at one of the APA hotels in Ueno that over looked the lake, but I kept reading reviews about how small the rooms were. The day before we left for Japan, a room in the Oakwood opened up and I just decided to go for it. The pictures online showed washer/dryers in each room and that was the selling point for me because I still hadn't figured out what exactly we were gonna do about the laundry. The hotel was a bit difficult to find for the first time because even though there were double doors on the ground floor that say "Oakwood", they were locked so I thought there must be another entrance or a front desk. Turns out there's an intercom and you have to request access as the front desk is on the 6th floor only accessible from an elevator behind the locked double doors.
The staff was exceptionally friendly and their English was pretty good. The lady at the front desk was super kind and upgraded our room for free for whatever reason. The only difference was instead of just a shower, we got a shower and soaking tub which was great. The room had a good amount of space, pretty much full kitchen, functional climate control and a washer/dryer in one (took me a little while to figure out how to use the thing...) The hotel itself was located right next to the Tokyo Station and there was a Lawson's right downstairs.
After we got unpacked and rested for a bit, we decided to walk around the Tokyo Station and Character Street. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures because it was so crowded and busy, I didn't want to get in the way.
We stayed at the Oakwood Premier in Tokyo. Originally we had booked a room at one of the APA hotels in Ueno that over looked the lake, but I kept reading reviews about how small the rooms were. The day before we left for Japan, a room in the Oakwood opened up and I just decided to go for it. The pictures online showed washer/dryers in each room and that was the selling point for me because I still hadn't figured out what exactly we were gonna do about the laundry. The hotel was a bit difficult to find for the first time because even though there were double doors on the ground floor that say "Oakwood", they were locked so I thought there must be another entrance or a front desk. Turns out there's an intercom and you have to request access as the front desk is on the 6th floor only accessible from an elevator behind the locked double doors.
The staff was exceptionally friendly and their English was pretty good. The lady at the front desk was super kind and upgraded our room for free for whatever reason. The only difference was instead of just a shower, we got a shower and soaking tub which was great. The room had a good amount of space, pretty much full kitchen, functional climate control and a washer/dryer in one (took me a little while to figure out how to use the thing...) The hotel itself was located right next to the Tokyo Station and there was a Lawson's right downstairs.
After we got unpacked and rested for a bit, we decided to walk around the Tokyo Station and Character Street. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures because it was so crowded and busy, I didn't want to get in the way.
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