The flight to Tokyo took abt 6 hours from SG and Caden was really restless throughout the whole journey. As 3 of us couldn't sit together, we took turns to keep Caden occupied throughout the flight before the plane touched down at Tokyo airport.
Our tour guide was a born Singaporean but based in Yokohama. She greeted us at the airport and our tour group was fairly small with 5 groups of family, biggest grp consists of 7 members. The first stop was to check into our hotel near Narita airport at Excel Tokyo Narita (very nice place) and we were all shocked to know that Japan sees their nightfall starting at 430pm! As Japan is 1 hour ahead of us, we did not have too much time on the first night but to have our dinner at Aeon (shopping mall near Narita hotels) and some time for brief shopping at Jusco (a big hypermart).
We should have done our titbits shopping at Jusco in day 1 if we had known that Central Tokyo (shinjuku and shibuya) did not have any hypermarts at all, not even Cold storage alike supermarkets in the shopping malls.
The food court at Aeon serves very nice ramen and we also had some time to relax and peoplewatch the locals taking their dinner at the same time. Aeon also have some nice small shops that sells fairly decent clothing but I didn't get any stuff cos I kept reserving my $ for my last 2 days of free and easy in Central tokyo.
Foodcourt in Aeon - really clean and they clear their plates after their meals, plus disposing the stuff into the right recycling bins
In Japan, they have many food vending machines like this for you to select the kind of food you want (e.g different types of ramen/udon or rice) and pay for them first using 1000 yen notes and then pass the dispensed coupons to the staff in the stalls who will then prepare your order
taking it really relaxed on the first night - Caden already got his first toy in Japan
We retired very early that night as we were dead beat after the long flight and super early hours.
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