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The trip started well with FREE upgrades to business class for 3 of us!
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Us enjoying the large seats and tons of leg room.
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Touchdown at Tokyo Narita. Searching for maps at 6am is like hunting for treasure.
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The traffic information map indicates that... actually I have no idea how to read this thing.
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Catching a limosine bus to the hotel.
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Here we are at Ikebukuro, the place where our hotel is.
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Ming and I still trying to get used to the cold.
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The perfect recipe for warming up the body.
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Ikebukuro station, reputed to be the 2nd busiest in Tokyo. This is just two of the many many trains tracks at this station.
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Seeing a submay map of Tokyo for the 1st time can be mind numbing. This is one of the many many maps (see a pattern forming?).
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Commuters busy purchasing tickets in the background.
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Here we are at Shinjuku!
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The Docomo office tower.
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And I thought the Takashimaya shopping centre in Singapore was huge...
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A modern 2 storey fashion store providing a counterpoint to an old office building of the previous century.
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This shopping centre is called MyLord. "Shop shop... More shop? Yes Mi Lord..."
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The busy streets of Shinjuku during lunch time.
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Huge billboards just add so much colour to the landscape.
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Did I mention huge billboards? This one literally covered the whole side of one building.
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While exploring the back-alleys of Shinjuku, we stumbled upon...
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A fugu (pufferfish) restaurant.
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Fugu swimming about oblivious to their impending fate.
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Fugu on a platter. Definitely not for the faint hearted, week stomached, or uninsured.
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More seafood on sale.
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Tokyo Tower and Roppongi Hills in the distance.