First Saturday in Tokyo! Lepak time!!

It's Saturday!! and of course we have to go out. Went to Akibahara becoz Indra & Nerand wants to get a digital camera ASAP. And so off we go trying to figure out the Tokyo rail system with our limited or no vocabulary of japanese language. I was the acting "tour guide" guiding the boys at the station! hahaha Not too bad. Did not get lost at all, well almost.... Nearest station for us is Hatagaya...take to Shinjuku and then we had to walk about 5 mins to the JR line to change train to Akibahara.
This is the Shinjuku JR Station, one of the largest station in Tokyo....they are 13-14 gates to different lines!Everyone is walking super fast....... And we can't find any lift for wheelchair users becoz commuteers have to go up a flight of stairs to catch the train. What did we do?...... Go straight to the info counter. What they lack in facilities....they make it up in services. The guy at the service counter politely ask us to wait there....and then they send 2 personals to escort us to the lift.....there is one..you just have to know how to get to it...it's like going through a maze!
The 2 "kawaiii" personals bought us all the way up to the platform, got ready the ramp, waited for the train to come...
And then when the train arrived....put the ramp and then make sure we are safely inside the train then only ask the train to move....
Indra, Kiran & Nerand enjoying the train ride. Took us a while to get on it but at least we are on the way.
This is something our transport people should learn. When we arrived at Akihabara (I told them where we were going earlier) there were 2 other personals waiting for us with the ramp. So efficient and very coordinated! And after that they escorted us all the way to the ticket exit! wow.. I'm impress.....

I heard from Kiran later (they had to go back to TIC on their own becoz I went to UENO so no more travel guide!) that they send someone to escort them all the way back to Hatagaya station so they did not get lost at all. Wow!

Akihabara! It's like stepping into my heaven! Electronics shop everywhere! Though it's very, very noisy...there's people shouting everywhere. And of course we get duty free prices. And it's cheap!

You can also get a lot of anime stuff here. I had to ditch the boys becoz they still want to look around for cameras and other stuff and I really, really want to visit the Tokyo National Museum before it close at 6pm. So I walk all the way to Ueno Park (about 15 mins) from Akibahara.

I think this ia a life size replica of a whale at UENO park. This statue is next to the Science Museum. If only they would stop killing them......
ahh... Finally reached the Tokyo National Museum before 4pm. Entrance is 600 yen. About RM22. Roughly the same price I paid to go into the Lourve at Paris but at that time it was student price. But then again you can spend the whole day at the Lourve and there's more things to see. If Kiran & Indra are here I can most probably go in for free as the admission is free for the disabled and their supporting fren. This is the main building called Honkan. It houses the sculptures, metal art, swords, paintings and other stuff from prehistoric-to present Japan. Spend one and a half hour here.
Kiddies ride at Ueno Park. So many rides! Helena & Haeleigh(my goddaughters) would luv this place....I miss them....

UENO park

Ameyoko at Ueno. Very cheap stuff. I bought a business bag there for 1050 yen!
Was glad the boys could make it back to TIC. Was a bit worried for them. After dinner we lepak at the lounge beside the dining hall. Saturday night! One group was playing some techno music on the computer. We were just sitting there chatting and drinking beer. I didn't drink any and bought my own orange juice becoz I had the Sapporo beer the night before and didn't like it. Too tired to walk out to buy other brands. ;P