Tokyo Day 1 - Odaiba

Landed in Narita Airport before 2pm and we were out of immigration by 2pm.
The direct airport limousine to the hotel is not leaving until 4pm.
So we took the alternative to T-CAT (Tokyo City Air Terminal) which runs very frequently and transfered to a taxi to Intercontinental Hotel at Tokyo Bay area, a short taxi ride away.

                            Luggage tag - very professional

                                        The cost of bus tickets


The full journey took about 1.5hrs. We check in with a awesome view from the room. 

                   Awesome view from the room - skytree at the far-away 11o'clock area

After freshen up, we proceeded at plan to odaiba as the subway is just right outside the hotel.

                          The automated Yurikamome transit system within 10m walk from hotel

Odaiba is a large artificial island in Tokyo Bay, Japan, across the Rainbow Bridge from central Tokyo.

The train crossed the Rainbow Bridge and we alighted at Aomi Station as we wanted to go Venus Fort, a Venice-themed shopping mall for dinner and shopping. The is a pretty well-stock good size Burberry Blue Label outlet. Automatic tax refund at payment counter. Venus Fort shopping was pretty quiet on a weekday Monday. We did not have to jostle around with crowd. It suited us pretty well as we had a long day started at 4am. We decided to go back early to the hotel to rest as the sky turned dark by 6pm+.

                                                    This carbonara was awesome




On the way to Aomi station, you can alight at the earlier station to shop at aqua city. Here, you can get to see the replica of Stature of Liberty near to Aqua City Shopping Centre.

At night, from our hotel room, we get excellent bay view
 

Night view - lit-up skytree tower right at the left edge of the picture