The New Sanno Hotel is a wonderful place to stay. Subsidized by your (and our) tax dollars, so all the people stationed on bases here in Japan can afford to stay a night or two in Tokyo, it is equivalent to the cost of Holiday Inn Xpress. I'd gauge it as a Marriott/Holiday Inn mix. The nice thing, is there's a pool for the kids in this round part, and all the staff speak excellent English, and you can order American food.
We stayed there instead at the pricey hotels at Disneyland Tokyo. The drive was relatively short and easy, and food in the evening was great.
This was in Kikuya, their Japanese restaurant. The tuna steak grilled in front of us in garlic butter was amazing. It's nice because the waitress explains exactly what everything is. No big guesses what things are (and it was easy to get reservations).
On the Saturday we decided to go to Shibuya, a popular place to go, since it has TOWER records, the busiest street crossing in the world, and lots of young people. Easy to catch the bus to Shibuya from the New Sanno (it's the terminus), and easily back (same bus line, stop across the street).
Hachiko's statue is here. This is the dog that was so loyal to his owner, he waited for him here, even after the owner died. Richard Gere was in a movie about this recently.
This looks like a Captain Nemo building. There were some pretty cool places here.
We ended up at the Tepco (our electric company) Museum. It was neat. And it was free. I believe William is standing by a turbine.
I don't know much about these things, but I think this is a scale model of a reactor plant.
I think these are rods.
This was a tiny scale model of what a nuclear plant looks like in Japan. The'll give you a book with the English translations for the different floors of the museum. I think this museum might have been more interesting for 8 years and above. They had a few things for older kids to do on computers.
Since it was October, and Halloween was coming up, we thought it interesting to see some of the decorations. Halloween is an American holiday (they don't trick-or-treat), but I thought their decorations were awesome!
This was in Kikuya, their Japanese restaurant. The tuna steak grilled in front of us in garlic butter was amazing. It's nice because the waitress explains exactly what everything is. No big guesses what things are (and it was easy to get reservations).
On the Saturday we decided to go to Shibuya, a popular place to go, since it has TOWER records, the busiest street crossing in the world, and lots of young people. Easy to catch the bus to Shibuya from the New Sanno (it's the terminus), and easily back (same bus line, stop across the street).
Hachiko's statue is here. This is the dog that was so loyal to his owner, he waited for him here, even after the owner died. Richard Gere was in a movie about this recently.
This looks like a Captain Nemo building. There were some pretty cool places here.
We ended up at the Tepco (our electric company) Museum. It was neat. And it was free. I believe William is standing by a turbine.
I don't know much about these things, but I think this is a scale model of a reactor plant.
I think these are rods.
This was a tiny scale model of what a nuclear plant looks like in Japan. The'll give you a book with the English translations for the different floors of the museum. I think this museum might have been more interesting for 8 years and above. They had a few things for older kids to do on computers.
Since it was October, and Halloween was coming up, we thought it interesting to see some of the decorations. Halloween is an American holiday (they don't trick-or-treat), but I thought their decorations were awesome!
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