We traveled to Tokyo via Shinkansen (bullet train) from Nagano. We got into Nagano a little late (train from Matsumoto unaccountably delayed) so had to do one of our by-now-routine scrambles: "Arrive Nagano . . . late! Quick! Up the elevator, across the platform, down the stairs clunking our suitcases, run down the platform to our car, car number 8, which of course is the end car on the shinkansen train."
2 PM: Arrive Tokyo Station. Thence a harrowing struggle (two heavy suitcases) from the shinkansen platform over to the Yamanote Line carrying the suitcases up a flight of steps and thence lugging them on a labyrinthine route (underground!) to our hotel.
Finally—our hotel room on the 33rd floor, featuring a Blade Runnerish view of Tokyo (the Tokyo Tower a prominent landmark.) The fabled metropolis! Whew.
Photos: Sunset—Tokyo, 2008; Night City—Tokyo, 2008; Arriving Park Hotel Basement Entrance—Tokyo, 2008
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