Tokyo

Um, it's been a few weeks now since we've been to Tokyo. I should probably post pictures right?!

Ha, I've seriously procrastinated on this, but here they are! Along with a few tips we learned about traveling to Tokyo.




{1} PLAN AHEAD. Seriously. We didn't. We booked our flights, our hotel, and the train to get us to the hotel, but that was it. We only had three full days in Tokyo and we knew somewhat what we wanted to do, but we wanted the trip to be stress free. So we didn't actually schedule anything. We knew we wanted to go to DisneySea on Monday since that would be the least crowded day, but that left us two days (Saturday and Sunday) to explore Tokyo.

Here's where we made our mistake. We did a lot of Saturday and had a blast. Sunday, we headed out to the fish market. Closed. Then we took the subway to the Sumo Hall. Closed. At this point (after getting a lost), we were exhausted and just decided to head over to our Disney hotel for the rest of the afternoon.

{2} Buy a subway pass. It's super easy, and we did this, but we didn't buy the FULL one to give us access to ALL of the subway. Unless you KNOW which subway you will be riding that day, go ahead and buy the FULL pass so that you won't be stuck paying for extra rides.

{3} Get wifi for your phone. We were completely lost and kept reading the maps backwards. If we had wifi on our phone, it would have made finding places a lot easier. There's a inexpensive package to buy wifi in Tokyo that gives you access to over 200,000 places that your phone will connect to their wifi automatically around the city. This would have eased a LOT of frustration.

{4} Go to Disney! We had an amazing time. DisneySea was so wonderful and the crowds were low. I read a lot about it being more for the adult crowd and not little kids, but I disagree. There were only 4-5 rides that Sadie couldn't do and she was just memorized by Mermaid Lagoon. She still talks about meeting Ariel.

{5} We decided that as we are expanding our family, we can no longer take trips to "explore a city." The stairs and subways and food situation is just stressful with a toddler. We will save those for our getaways. Until our kids are a little older, we will stick to Beach and Disney type trips. They are so much more relaxing. Sadie has more fun and in turn, we have more fun.

If you want to see a more extensive album of our trip, visit my Facebook page!