Golden-gai District Tokyo

A little bleary eyed after a JQ flight from Coolangatta - we found our way very easily to our hotel by train.

As we only had a 7 day JR pass- and 14 days to get around Japan we decided to run with the Suica-Nex card for the first 5 days to get ourselves around Tokyo so we could leave the JR pass for our longer (and more expensive) legs of …

Early start to the East Imperial Gardens today - a little bit of hike to Tokyo Station and then 20 minutes by foot, only to fubd the gardens closed on Fridays! Bugger!!

Tokyo area itself is quite wide and being the CBD...a far cry from crazy Shinjuku. However, we did find a little business lunch bar near the station and had some delish …

First day in Japan, both absolutely shattered, feel like we're in a dream where everything is familiar but slightly different!

Managed to get to the hotel unscathed, it was actually really easy! room wasn't available for an hour or so so headed out to grab some lunch (body clock was screwed up at this point all i knew was i needed food!) …

... (Yes that is our reflection in the middle of the shot)   Best part of the day however was finding the golden gai district, which we had read about, was directly behind our hotel! Golden gai is a drinking district on a miniature scale, hundreds of ...