Good morning sun

If this is 7am, I don't want to know how 12pm is like.

Today's schedule:

1. Check out
2. Find our way to shinjuku
3. Take romance car to Hakone
4. Check in.
5. Go for Hakone Round Course
6. Onsen

Post-trip

What I did on my first morning in Tokyo:

1. Alarm clock goes beep beep beep
2. Groans, roll over.
3. Totter to closed curtains.
4. Pulls curtains open.
5. Get blinded by the light.
6. Scream and stagger back.
7. Hurried shut curtains.
8. Crawl under blanket in the bed.
9. Peek out and open curtains a tiny bit.
10. Run back to bed and take photo to blog about it.

Please note the time of the post.

"Shinjuku"

Shinjuku is feels a bit like PS area, where there are many up-scale stores, a bit of shoddy rows of shops and confusing train exits...like in Dhoby Ghaut. This is the Tokyo Metro station (a bit like SMRT vs SBS train stations)

At this point, we had our first taste of "there are absolutely no rubbish bins in Tokyo". We walked around trying to find a bin. It was clean, despite the lack of bins. I daresay, we should instill this kind of discipline from Japan in our youths.

"Not our train"

"This one is ours..."
This is called Romance Car. It's basically like a first-class MRT. (The speed is like MRT too. Talking of MRT, subways in Japan have cushioned seats. We are stuck with hard ones here :( ) It's run by a company called Odakyu. For more information on Romance cars, you can visit this webpage http://www.odakyu.jp/english/rc/index.html. Odakyu also runs several day/day & night out of Tokyo trips. Getting from agency seems kinda cheaper though. The driver sits at that little black window at the top.

"Signboard"

It flashes in several languages, so you will never need to worry about getting lost. You need to be very good at understanding signs though.

This is how first class view looks like.

This scene completely reminds me of the Malaysia trip...if it had been in day time. I attempted to find out the name of the mountain(s) at the horizon via the GPS, but kinda failed, so there's that.

I spotted what looked like a circular rainbow in the sky!