Mathmagicland
Disneyland - the original since 1955
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- Jul 26, 2014
We hit Akihabara on the free Tuesday afternoon in Tokyo as my son is a huge anime fan. Hopped on the train at the station just behind the Peninsula, we’d scopedit out the night before to save time on Tuesday.@CaliforniaGirl09 You are the 4th person to express that the Tokyo portion of the trip needs restructuring. So my question is what time did everyone have to meet up for the Farewell Dinner? Because I am seriously considering doing a tour of Akihabera on Day 10... and make most of that day our own time (would probably still do the shine and ceremony). We are big Video Game Fans (and have no interest in shopping or Takeshita Street at all really) Also on day 9... I believe that's a dinner oyo… what time did you guys get through with ABD. Might try and get a reservation at the Ninja Asaka Restaurant (its either do that or the Robot Restaurant show that night)
So fun! And your son obviously has great taste, LOL. Half our tour group were hunting down Melon pan. I even found it at the Tokyo Disneyland Hotel in the store on the bottom level. It was packaged and not nearly as good, but it made a nice snack on the plane.Great trip report - brings back a lot of memories of our AbD trip in April.
Re the Melon Pan,my son loves thst too - we stopped at the same stand in the Osaka food tour!
We almost went there as well to have lunch in one of the moe cafes (@ home cafe) since that sounded so different. For anyone interested: https://jw-webmagazine.com/5-best-maid-cafes-in-akihabara-5687dd586238/ Love how he took charge of the itinerary.We hit Akihabara on the free Tuesday afternoon in Tokyo as my son is a huge anime fan. Hopped on the train at the station just behind the Peninsula, we’d scopedit out the night before to save time on Tuesday.
Upon arrival in Akihabara, we immediately bought our return tickets so we wouldn’t have to wait to do so going back, & could get a few more minutes shopping. We also knew the return train schedule trip we needed to get back for the farewell dinner.
We had approx five hours there to explore. My son had a list of places he wanted to go, prioritized and mapped ahead of time as there are so many of them. We hit most of them - I was along as the designated bag holder for him, would wait outside with the bags and my book while he explored and shopped. He enjoyed fhe time there a lot.
Let me ask him for the info & I will share. He got it from friends who travel to Tokyo and Akihabara annually.Mathmagicland, I'd love your son's list. We will be in Japan next year and dds are huge gamers.
Let me ask him for the info & I will share. He got it from friends who travel to Tokyo and Akihabara annually.
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I'd love to see that list as well. Because it just so happens that we are 100% doing Akihabara (right after the shine ends) with a personal tour guide. But we have discussed with him that we are go with the flow type travelers. So if we come up with new things to add...he'll just amend our list we have already given him.
You were smart to map out your areas... we decided on the guide to expedite our travel time... since he knows the city well. Less fumbling around trying to figure out streets and google mapping (more hitting the ground running) Plus he will be escorting us back to the hotel to give me time to dress up for our farewell dinner.