We made it!

It's 00:55 JST and we're all settled in our hotel in Ginza, home of the luxury shopping mile. For my sanity, i think i'm just going to update our trip with short point-form notes...short attention span, short notes

• Arrived Narita airport under cloudy skies at 14:45 JST. Clearing customs and picking up luggage took all of about 15 minutes (Pearson's got nothing on this airport..). Watched 4 movies over here (National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Cloverfield (annoying) and 2 Japanese flicks - Flower in the Shadow and South Bound (way better)). Guys beside me on the plane was a professor from Guelph on his way to Manila as part of a project he's pushing to identify all the fish species in the world by DNA analysis...not bad.

• Took a bus to our hotel and drove through a bit of the Tokyo core; intimidating at first to say the least since its HUGE and full of buildings with signs in Japanese, luckily most of the eateries have picture menus. Can't wait to try our first ramen/udo/soba noodles..!

• Purchased my first drink from the vending machines - Sky Time Yuzu citrus drink (similar to lemonade)

• How is it, out of my full suitcase, i forget to pack a sleeping shirt lol...guess i'll get one of those 'Tokyo Police' or 'I survived Godzilla' souvenier shirts or something...

• Body clock a bit off as i'm almost fully awake now but we have to join our half-day tour of Tokyo at 08:40 tomorrow

• The Japanese toilets with the front and backend wash (a la bidet) are awesome. Seriously, i wouldn't mind getting one in the new house
  

Anyways, we had a long day, almost 24 hrs of travelling so time to catch some zzzs before the adventure begins. Oh and when i get up for it, these posts will have a couple pics to make it less boring...