We’ve arrived in Tōkyō!

First off, we explored the Asakusa district, which is also where our hotel is. After that, we took the metro with the tour group to the Shinjuku shopping district. It’s packed, and the building facades have adverts playing on huge screens, blasting sound over the massive junction.

It’s easy to use the Tōkyō metro. You look up the fare to your destination station on a board, buy a ticket and use it to go through a barrier. If you’ve accidentally gone too far, you just pay the difference at the destination station. Fare dodging isn’t a thing here.

Let’s just hope the weather gets better. During the transfer from the airport it rained heavily, and for the rest of the day it was heavily overcast and rainy.