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9^th July: Liam and I take a rest-day after 4 days on the go. Avril goes out into the local Osaka shop­ping scene and cap­tures some pho­tos. The most inter­est­ing one has cookie mon­sters in blue and red!

10^th July: Up early, JR train from Osaka to Shin-Osaka to cap­ture a new N700 Shinkansen train to Tokyo. 9:00am at Osaka, 9:30am at Shin-Osaka, 10:30am Shinkansen via Kyoto, Yoko­hama etc. We’ve gone for Green-class which provides more room. Whilst we’ve paid for 3 seats, we get a set of 4 between us. Which is just as well, as we have a new com­pan­ion on our jour­ney: Mr Fast Bas­tard Bag:

Arriv­ing at Tokyo in the early after­noon, we weave our way out the large Tokyo JR Sta­tion the Maron­ou­chi Sub­way line. 7 stops later, we are at the Nishi-Shinjuku sta­tion. Nav­ig­at­ing the exits, we find our­self at the Hilton and we’re home for 9 or so days.

After a quick unpack, we go out into Shin­juku to the Yodo­bashi, and Tokyu Hands store.

Order­ing din­ner, we broke the intric­ate sys­tem by adding on desert. Oops.