Hotel Sunroute Shinjuku

Shinjuku: My first real taste of Asia since I was only in the airport square in Korea.  See the ...

... to shibuya for dinner which included soft cheese, advacado covered in raw fish guts (as the menu described it) which was lovely by the way! Finally back to higashi-shinjuku by the hotel for a night cap! Off to see the harijuku girls tomorrow morning! G. ...

... instead of showing stick figures to warn of danger usual show Pokémon type characters or cutesy animals. We are staying in the Shinjuku area which is where most of the action seems to be.  After a recommendation from my friend Nicole we decided to ...

... -feeling amusements of the Northeastern areas, the futuristic harbor pleasure districts, the youthful shopping and be-seen areas of Shinjuku, and we visited the Imperial Palace grounds--cold and barren in the midwinter. Tokyo is a massive metropolis ...

... and I was miffed but what could we do!? Daniel was a little disappointed so we ended up buying a few different beers from the convenience store down the road from our hotel. While Daniel drank, I enjoyed a lovely bath to rest my sore tired feet. Ly ...

... to board our flight to London with a 12.5 hour flight ahead of us. Yesterday was another day spent exploring Tokyo. We went back to Shinjuku to look around and get some lunch from a food hall.  Yet again the food was amazing and we ate way too much. ...

... I suppose our accomodation will reflect the current status of our bank accounts!) after successfully catching the Narita Express to Shinjuku station... of course it was not "that" easy though... First we went to the information desk where Ang charmed ...

... will post later. Love and light Oh I just remembered, to make you all grateful to be in Aust... I was walking back to the hotel after ditching Angus for a break, and stopped when too Japanese men pointed up. I thought they were looking at one of the ...

... and eventually the attendant at the JR counter realises we should be at Shinjuku, not Tokyo Station.  Mmmm... the hotel is the Hotel Sunroute Plaza Shinjuku.  Who wooda thunk we should be at Shinjuku? So back into the station, onto a cross city ...

... out of the hotel at 11am, we leave our bags with reception and decide to fill the next couple of hours by exploring Shinjuku. First stop though is the Airport Limousine Bus ticket centre to book our transport back to Narita. This done we walk to the ...

... , the problem comes that the tickets are only in Japanese. From Ueno we caught the Ginza subway line two stops to our "hostel", the Hotel Sunroute Asakusa. This place is really good for the lower market product it's meant to be. Our room has all the ...

... it was too late and it had already closed, so we called it a night. Today we checked in to our new hotel in Shinjuku (a neighborhood in Tokyo) and walked around and explored the area. Saw lots of interesting things that are very ...

Oh how I miss being understood! Although a lot of Japanese are fantastic at speaking English I had an experience in the 100yen shop that made me really appreciate home... I asked if the soup packet I had was miso (which is called miso in japanese too ...

... It was awfully embarrassing, we didn’t think to check which map we took out of the bag, we just saw Sunroute Plaza Hotel marked in highlighter (lesson to self, read the English before you attempt to decipher the Japanese). Hotel is really fantastic ...

... Tokyo. It was very.. unnerving. Tokyo is much more like an international city.) So, we surfaced in the Business district in Shinjuku, in Tokyo, got some breakfast, and found the location. Then, we stashed our stuff in lockers (in Japan, there are lockers ...

... instead of France in 2012 – sorry Bill, just kiddin’). We got on the local subway, hopped off at Shinjuku and leisurely walked to our hotel (piece of cake and no stress at all, it helps to be staying at the same hotel as before). Dropped off ...