Travelling to Japan

Being my first travel abroad, it took me some time to figure out all the required things. Considering weather in Japan, I had to buy lot of thermal wear and lot of other things. Just could not miss to buy ACHAR, CHATANI, READY MIXES FOR UPMA etc. My flight was Singapore Airlines from Mumbai to Singapore and then Singapore to Tokyo. Left Mumbai at 6th Jan 12:45 pm. I had a halt of 3 hrs at Singapore Airport, so roamed around the airport. It was so big!! There are lot of shops and you can shop till you drop!Also there is a movie theatre inside...if u have a very big halt u can watch movies there!

-Limousine Bus stop at airport.
I reached Tokyo Airport at 7am morning local time. So it must be 3:30am midnight in India. Thankfully I could sleep for sometime in plane. Custom's person must have found my face so innocent that he did not even ask for opening my bag, though I told him that I have some gifts. After going through Immigration check and customs I came out and inquired about train and bus towards hachioji. The train was after 35 min and Lemousine bus to hachioji was after 1 hr, but there was lemousine bus after 10 min for Shinjuku. So decided to go to Shinjuku by Bus. From Shinjuku I took train to hachioji. I reached hotel at around 11:30am local time. My hotel was close from station, but I preferred to take taxi considering my baggage. Minimum rent for taxi in japan is 660 yen, thats what I had to pay.

Japan is much more advanced country than India. Tokyo is supposed to be costliest city in the world. In Hachioji I got a room in Marroad Inn hotel which was around 7x9 where hardly a bed, table and a chair is fitted in the room. You just have some space between bed and table to walk 4 or 5 steps. Rent for this was 7840 yen (Currency Converter)per day.