After packing up ready to leave, we went down to Shinagawa Station to buy our train tickets for later then had a very nice set lunch in the gorgeous Dean & Delucca bakery. So much delicious food on display, it was quite difficult to make our choice and even more difficult to get our order understood bearing in mind our very limited Japanese. I can only say I am glad we didn't spot the cakes until after we had finished because they were amazing! Back at the h...

We caught the train to Hamamatsucho station and walked from there to Hinode pier. Here we bought our tickets and boarded a ferry boat for our 40 minute ride along the Sumida River to Asakusa, a place we had visited on our last trip to Tokyo and enjoyed very much. We had a drink and a snack on the boat and enjoyed the scenery, especially the large number of very different and interesting bridges along the way. We disembarked at Asakusa but were distracted by the ...

We had to be up bright and early today and were out and on our way super quick so as to be at The Prince Hotel on the other side of Shinagawa station by 7.30am to board our coach for our day trip to Mount Fuji. Once on board, the next hour and a half was very much snooze material as it involved trailing round picking up people from other hotels as the tour didn't really start till 9am! Unlucky us to be the first pick-up. After that we were soon on the motorway a...

We decided to have a day out seeing some Japanese history. Over at nearby Shinagawa station we bought our tickets from a machine and caught the JR Yamanote line to Ikebukuro. We changed there and caught the Tobu Toju line all the way to Kawagoe where we hoped to find the historic area known by many as Little Edo. This is because the townscape resembles that which could be seen during the Edo era and the streets lined with old, warehouse-style buildings, temples a...

Once again we come to the end of our week in the snow, it passes more quickly every year! We've had a wonderful time and it's sad to say goodbye, but I'm sure we will be back!! Meanwhile, we are on our way to Tokyo for a few days downtime before returning to Hong Kong. It was lovely to enjoy our last views of the snowy countryside on our journey to the airport. On arrival at New Chitose we checked in for our domestic flight to Tokyo, Haneda. The lady at check-i...