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On Friday we woke up a bit late and Charles bought us breakfast onigiri from the Family Mart over the road. We packed up all our stuff ready to get on the plane and left out luggage at the hotel.
First we took a subway train two stops down the line to a more suburban part of Shinjuku, to see a small gallery exhibitions of photographs. The artist writes a blog called Tokyo Camera Style which Charles really likes. The exhibition was interesting and we both really liked it.
We took one stop back on the train to the busier part of Shinjuku to see a few shops and things we hadn't quite done thoroughly enough. This included some camera shops, a Marui shop, the fabric shop in Takashimaya, and anything else that looked interesting. For lunch we stopped at a Freshness Burger which was great!
When it was about 3:30 we got our bags and booked a couple of seats on the 4:10 Narita Express. We sat on the train, tired.
At the airport we lined up at business because Charles is a ruby member of one world (thanks to all those Sweden trips!) and were told we weren't sitting together. Christina was upset and the man got us little chairs to sit on while he sorted it out. Luckily he did! We were sitting in the middle right near the back of the plane.
We had the idea to eat dinner before getting on the plane (plane leaving at 7:30) so that we had a lovely meal early and could sleep earlier on the plane. This turned out to be a good idea since they served dinner at about 10pm on the plane! Christina was especially glad she's eaten.
Neither of us slept much. At around 4am Japan time we were served a highly unusual breakfast - a deconstructed burger from Mos Burger (a japanese chain like freshness burger). It was called AirMos or something and came with instructions on how to build your burger. Super weird. Christina said "who has a burger for breakfast!?" And Charles said "You!"
And now we're home! Phew! Emi and her new husband Yu are honeymooning in Australia and are coming for afternoon tea tomorrow!
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