We are both feeling rather tired with all the walking for the past
week whilst we are due to leave this Hotel tomorrow morning and so today was
all about packing, collecting the hire car and generally getting sorted.
So this morning we packed up the two suitcases, one we will leave
here, and generally clearing up ready for the off. By late morning all was
complete and so we headed off by bus to Shinjuku Station for lunch which today
was a shared pizza and later a coffee cake and iced tea before going to to the
Nissan car hire location which is really not easy to find.
After twenty minutes searching this huge complex we found it and checked
in and half an hour later we have our small Nissan Note car with a
Japanese/English Satnav where the data entry is the telephone number of your
destination, let’s hope this works. The Japanese lad who helped us check us in
had good English but the girl who showed us to the car did not and so the
education on the Satnav was limited. So in good faith we punched in the telephone
number of the Hotel and up came a little box full of Japanese which apparently
gave the details of the Hotel and so we said accept and off we went.
After the few minutes the screen showed a left turn coming up whilst
telling us in English to do a U-Turn, damn and blast what to do, but we did the
left turn and ten minutes later out of the blue appeared out Hotel, incredible.
The next thing was to figure out the car parking, so Noel went to the
front desk and given limited instruction and a key which said car park 2 or
(CP2) so this is a fully electronic car park where you drive in your car, then
get out and it is whisked away to somewhere for storage. The only problem was
the key entry system did not accept our entry and so Jen went to the front desk
for help and returned with a female receptionist who clearly had not done this
before either although she did have the benefit of reading Japanese.
Anyway ten minutes later the car was stored away somewhere and we returned
to the room for an early dinner of left over bits and pieces which Jennifer made
in to an acceptable concoction. Packing is now complete and one case stored in
reception and the other in the car and a couple of small pieces to be put in
the car tomorrow morning.
We are of to the Kamakura Peninsular tomorrow to stay overnight at a friend’s
place whilst stopping en-route at a Japanese Costco store for some goodies, and
it will be interesting to see the Japan Costco shop compared to the one in
Farnborough.
No photos today…
