Journal no. 3

We left Singapore for our honeymoon on 18 May and somehow Daven recognised his friend sitting 1 aisle in front of us on the plane. LOL
They were on their way to Hokkaido for the spring blooms.
Daven was excited to be on a new plane's maiden flight to Narita. One ticket was $722 on Singapore Airlines - there were no promotions when we bought the ticket.

I booked this hotel through Booking.com because I didn't see anything I particularly liked on Airbnb for Tokyo. Hotel Risveglio Akasaka was a bit difficult to locate even with Google Maps GPS on.
But it was a very swank 3 star little hotel with very cool industrial and design elements.
The hotel signboard is meant to look "interrupted" with the letters intentionally broken.


The dual use sink and mirror - one side for the WC, the other for the shower area.


A video of our tiny room.
They provide pyjamas and lovely Hario (?) glassware for the in room tea amenities. I am aiming to get Hario glass cups for my new house. Those wide-based cups with handles are so delicate yet strong and beautifully designed.

We looked for lunch and found this soba shop - Mimaki Soba - nearby with a little queue.
It looked very new, clean and slightly posh.

Our meals - zarusoba with duck soup for me, katsudon with zarusoba for him.
He said afterwards that the katsudon was the best one he had in Japan.
It was tasty and wasn't too pricey either.

 Our reflections in the Hoshino Coffee Shop display.

 We walked to Tokyo Midtown - and saw this amazing 2 storey SM Town dining concept in a swank building.

 In the background is the TBS building.

 We got lost walking to Tokyo Midtown =.=;;;
Daven was grumpy and tired.
I found this soupy food restaurant - Kayanoya - and went for it instead of MOS burger.

I thought it was awesome comfort food.

Then we went shopping at Uniqlo for a while before the shop closed and aimed to get enough for tax deduction - 5000yen worth before tax.
There was a counter for "tax free" - they bagged the purchases normally but took pictures of my passport and pasted the receipt in it. I hadn't done the tax free in this way before and wasn't sure if tax was deducted. LOL, but lucky it was.