After reading Josephine, QQ, some other friends & my sis’s raving testimony about their experiences in Japan, we decided that it would be great to visit the land of the rising sun for a much needed vaca. It was our first trip ever to Japan and we were a bit apprehensive about language and navigating the complex public rail transport systems etc.  

However, armed with advice from friends and family, we decided not to take up any tour packages and do a free and easy  to Tokyo instead with a 1 day trip out to Mt Fuji and 1 night stay in Hakone. Must say though, the public transport system in Tokyo is really comprehensive, timely and truly world-class. In this trip alone, we travelled by taxi, bus, boat, cable car, rail, shinkansen and they were all like clockwork! Exact to the very minute! We were impressed and really depended on the rail a lot to bring us out the various locations conveniently…we even ate dinner inside the train station at Damon , trying out the coupon styled ramen cafe and really enjoying it.

I must say though, that my fave meal of the trip was at Tsukiji Market, block 6 at a little shop called DaiWa. Can you believe we had to queue to get in even way before 8am!!!! But the sushi i tell you is fab and really worth getting up early and navigating ur way there. Here’s a pic of HL in the cold looking hungry and miserable heheheh(It was 1-6 degree during our stay there)… check out the queue!