Today we tried to go to the owl cafe in Tsukishima. We didn't get up any earlier but we made the 25min journey there and arrived at 10:30am only to discover that it didn't open until 2pm. Hmmf. There isn't much else to do around Tsukishima so we hopped back on the train and went to Ginza. We browsed through the shops for a while and started playing the game where each of us takes a turn to decide what we are going to do next and the other person has to agree wi...

This morning when we peeped out our window we saw it was a pretty overcast day with a very high chance of rain. However we had already decided to go back to Ueno Park again so rain or not we went. After breakfast in the hostel we caught the train to Ueno where it started to rain a bit heavier but nothing too unmanageable. We had decided to forego an umbrella so we popped on our coat hoods and made for the museums. First stop was the Science Museum but after s...

We slept in again today and by the time we had breakfast it was around 10am and it was the perfect train time, read: not too packed. First stop for the day was back to Shinjuku and up the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office building. There is an observation deck on the 45th floor of this building that is free to get to and you get great views of Tokyo. Today we had a beautiful clear shot of Mt Fuji with his snow capped tip. This observation deck is so much bet...

Phwoar! What a day! We tried to set out a bit later today because we kept getting caught up with the crowds in the last few days so after breakfast at the hostel we made our way to the train at around 10am. First stop of the day was Meguro and the Parasite Museum. This was a small and free museum that had jars and jars of preserved parasites. It was quite disgusting with the main exhibit being an 8.8m tapeworm. On our way back to the train station we stoppe...

We started our day off with another ¥350 breakfast at the hostel whilst we planned out our attack for the day. We were going to spend the day in Shinjuku but as we couldn't book in to go to the robot restaurant until tomorrow we decided to postpone our trip until then to avoid doubling up. Instead, as it was a beautiful clear day, we made our way to Asakusa and the Tokyo Skytree. When we came to Japan two years ago it had only just opened and was crazy busy so...