We were both a little tired from yesterday whilst Noel needed to do
some paperwork and also check the finances for the next couple of weeks as
cashing Travellers Cheques in Japan is not so easy and few banks liking to do
and so you are left with Travelex or similar who are not everywhere in Japan.
Jennifer did some washing in the machines in the Hotel and commented how cheap
it was and by 13.00 we had just about completed our bits and pieces and were
ready to leave.
Again we too the bus to Shinjuku
where first of all hunger hit us and so we visited a small tempura restaurant and for 1150 yen each (about £7.00) we both had the tempura on rice together with Misu soup and a some green tea, really excellent. Then on to Travelex and the girl recognised from the other day and handled the sale of the T/C much faster than last time. They will only accept you cashing 50000 yen per time and we will need quite a lot of yen for Hotels, Toll roads and fuel plus car hire, all to be paid in cash as this is more of a cash society than credit card.
From there on the Tokyo Metro to Ginza where we wandered around the
shops for a while and purchased a few items for back home and then found a nice
little coffee house. I mentioned the non-smoking in streets but for some strange
reason they allow smoking in restaurants, not sure why this is. We continued
walking around Ginza and then left on the metro again for Roppongi Cross, a
well know night life area although we were a little early at 18.00 as it does
not warm up until about 2030. However we decided to have a bite in Tony Roma’s
rib and steak place and Jennifer had a really excellent filet, full of taste
and really tender, knife really not needed. Noel had the half rack of ribs and
together with a couple of Kirin beers we enjoyed the evening.
Then back on the metro and also the JR Yamanote line but by this time
the place was humming and thousands of people either going to eat, or play or
visit love Hotels etc.
Love Hotels are famous in Japan and come in all shapes and sizes from
castles to space ships where you book a room for a couple of hours before going
home to the wife, yes this is Japan style.
Anyway we arrived back at the Hotel in the efficient bus service and
ready for a quiet night however it is 9.30 pm when I am completing this blog so
not really an early night.
