Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Wednesday 9th April 2014- We are leaving Tokyo tomorrow

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…