Matilda's ears didn't survive the flight too well, so the first night was restless and she awoke with a fever and sore ear. Despite this, she put on a brave face, had some panadol, and agreed that a visit to a cat cafe might cheer her up. Exit 4 to the Azabu-Juban underground line was just across the small street from the entrance to our apartment block, so we easily followed the signage for the Oedo Line toward Yoyogi, and transferred there for another train to ...

Our 10 hour flight from Melbourne to Tokyo was not as torturous as I'd feared, everyone even managed to get a few hours sleep. On arrival, we whizzed through customs, caught a shuttle bus to Narita's Terminal 2 and found the post office where we picked up our portable wi-fi gizmo. A very helpful gent at the information counter helped us buy some "Pasmo" cards (put ¥5000 on each to last 4 days) to allow us to travel on all rail within Tokyo (despite my pitif...