Jen Hotel

One of the latest new addition to Orchard Road.
We decided to celebrate Christmas & Boxing day here.

The view is superb 

Like the touch screen lift

View

Good size room

MBS view

Room card

Pool

Not crowded

Night view from room

Day and night views

Mt Takao from Tokyo Shinjuku Station part 2

You can visit this place in different seasons and enjoy the beauty.
This a place where many locals come to hike too.

Most local visitors eat this 3-fortune bun here. The sauce is sweet and the bun is chewy. It is steamy hot.

Comfort food in the cold weather

You can also try this famous super long hotdog after the cable car ride up the mountain.

After the yummy food, we proceed on to hike up the next part. We get to enjoy beautiful autumn leaves along the way.

Beautiful autumn leaves

At the peak of Mt Takao, if you are lucky, you can catch a glimpse of Mt Fuji.
 

At the peak background is Mt Fuji

Mt Takao from Tokyo Shinjuku Station part 1

A day spent hiking

 

Brochure in Japanese

Mt Takao is easily accessible from Tokyo city.  We took the KEIO line which took less than an hour to reach the foot of the mountain. There are many ways to hike up the mountain with various levels of difficulty.

The base station for start the hike

You can ease the way up by choosing one of the 2 type of cable cars. The first one is the one you are seeing below. The other type is chair lift. Both send you half way up the mountain.