Our Japan trip was a memorable one. I have a special bond with Japan as it was the first foreign country I ever visited back in 2011 when I was a PhD student in IIT Bombay, Mumbai. That was an official visit. Ever since I came back from Japan, I wanted to go back and visit it again. My wife also loves Japan and we decided to visit Japan in 2018. It was February 2018 when we finally took off for Japan.
In 2018, we were living in Taiwan. We lived in Tainan city, Taiwan. We boarded a bus from Tainan city to reach Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport near Taipei (Capital of Taiwan). Our flight was in the morning around 9:30AM. We reached airport around 5AM. We checked in our baggage, received boarding pass and reached in the departure hall around 7AM. It was too early. We had some rest on the chairs. As we did not sleep in the previous night, we were feeling very sleepy. Around 9AM, it was announced that the flight is delayed because of the late arrival of the aircraft. We decided to roam around the airport as we were getting bored of sitting and getting sleepy. The flight finally took off around 11AM. We reached Narita International Airport around 2:30 PM local time.
After de-boarding the flight we cleared immigration and collected our baggage. I love Japanese people, they are just awesome. They are so polite. We headed for train station at T2. We purchased our train tickets and boarded the train to Nippori station. Here, we purchased prepaid card for our travel in Japan. It was Pasmo card.
Our hotel (Sakura hotel, Nippori) was around 700 m from the station. We took west exit and reached the hotel. It was evening by the time we reached the hotel. The hotel people were very welcoming. We checked-in and received our room key.
I was planning to buy a SIM card for internet access during our Japan trip. So, we got refreshed and walked back to Nippori station and boarded a train to Akihabara, electric town of Tokyo. There are two major shops selling SIM cards, BIC camera and YODOBASHI camera. We purchased from YODOBASHI camera shop. This is in a shopping mall adjacent to the station.
We were very hungry and we looked for an Indian restaurant. We located one Indian restaurant on the top floor of YODOBASHI camera mall.
We came back from Akihabara and reached hotel. We were tired and had a nice sleep that night.
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