Tokyo Trip: To the Hotel!

Day 1, Part 2.
(Austin)

    After finishing our crepes we decided that we should find our hotel and check in before it got too late. With Elijah as our navigator, we started walking to the station that was on the proper train line connected to the one near our hotel. Tokyo has a TON of train lines.

    On our way to the station we went down some back roads and I took the picture of Tokyo Tower lit up against the night sky. Its quite pretty in my opinion.

    We made it to the station and headed towards the hotel. At the destination station we found a bakery and bought some real food for dinner. It should be noted that a bakery here isn't just cakes. Actually, there aren't any cakes in bakeries here. Those are called cake shops here. Bakeries here have different kinds if bread, many of them with meats baked / cooked in. They are very delicious and cheap; great when you're on the go.

    We left the station and started towards the hotel. The hotel was a little bit confusing to find. The address, when used with Google, puts you in front of a building that clearly isn't the hotel, however there is a sign that says, in Japanese, "if you're looking for 1980 hotel, it is at the back of this building". While we were trying to read the sign 2 kids, maybe 12 years old, saw us and told us in very broken English that the hotel was around back. I guess they knew because we were foreigners. They ran inside the front of the building. I guess they live there.

    After walking around back we found the hotel, paid, checked in, and went to our pods. I say pods because it wasn't a hotel like many of you are thinking of. It is something called a Capsule Hotel. You basically have a bed and a small closet or locker to put stuff in and that is all. It is INCREDIBLY cheap and gave us everything we needed. Elijah complained that the beds were slightly uncomfortable though. If you are wondering, I could've put 2-3 of me shoulder to shoulder and fit. Length was also fine.

    The pictures show the ladder to my pod. The lower pod under mine was Elijah's. His opening is to the right, not shown in the picture. The other 2 pictures show the inside of the pod and the lockable closet beside the pod.

We were tired, so we collapsed and went to sleep.

Thus ended our first day in Tokyo.