Day 5 Tokyo | Natalie and Tyler

6/18

We all slept heavy last night.

This morning we walked over to the Imperial Palace gardens and took a stroll through the grounds. It’s a nice place for a walk or jog (as we saw many people doing).

Next stop, Asakusa. A district in Tokyo popular for the Senso-Ji temple. The temple is surrounded by lots of shops and food shops set up for the large amount of tourists that flow through this area. Asakusa is also home to a new Hello Kitty store opened this year.

Nearby is Tokyo Skytree. It’s a broadcasting and observation tower and became the tallest structure in the world in 2011.

At the bottom, there is a multi-level mall with a grocery store, food court, and lots of shops. And much to my delight, a Hello Kitty store.

Lunch at the food court. I got spicy udon (dan dan).

There was a Pokémon store here and Tyler fell in love! He started playing Pokémon Go again while in Japan to catch rare Pokémon only found here.

The larger train stations here also have malls attached to them. Tokyo Station is one of them. We walked through here briefly to pass some time before our reservation at the Pokémon cafe. Oh, there was another Hello Kitty store here!

The Pokémon Cafe. Reservations fill up quickly. I was only able to get a two seat reservation even though I booked a few weeks ago. The kids were excited to come here.

When we checked in, we were told our reservation is actually for tomorrow! 😭😭 I quickly realized I forgot to edit our schedule after making the reservation. I guess we’re going back tomorrow.

And so, we moved on to our next destination: Akihabara (electric town). Popular for video games, anime, manga, and computer goods. At night, the buildings light up much like Las Vegas.

We stumbled into a video game store and the kids spent some coins on the machines.

Dinner was at a small restaurant inside in train station. I ordered pork cutlet curry.