Even Qantas F21 offers a choice of Japanese breakfast (salmon and miso soup) or “aussie” breakfast.
After a 10 hour flight with little sleep everyone seemed a little tired.
2 full size buses with translators/guides are taking us around. Under 9-10s on one bus and 11-12 on bus behind us. Parents are at front of bus and team is at back of the bus so they can commence "bonding" which includes learning each others’ names still for some. Its a great idea and kids already getting on fine.
Tokyo is “busy” as expected. Stop at Akihabara shopping district mostly known for its electrical goods. We go into this Yodobashi Camera store shopping centre specialising in electronics/games/whitegood, etc. Absolutely nuts. After about 1 hour in there, their is sensory overload. Soooooo much stuff! Mad about anime in all its formats.
Toilets here are also very flashy. They have warmed seats and have like a remote control on the side which has a optional front/rear wash thing and also have a deodorant button. Without going into too much detail, for the toilet connoisseur they are the rolls-royce baby.
City is flooded with vending machines. They are everywhere and selling everything imaginable.
Found some Calpis - (kids like the name cos it sounds like "moo-wee" if you know what i mean). Noah seems to like it. We tried both plain and soda type. Carbonated milk basically. Sounds too weird and sort of disgusting in concept. If you can imagine mixing a spoonful of plain yoghurt into lemonade then I think that’s pretty much the taste.
Had sushi for lunch and it was pretty authentic. Maybe too authentic for some of the kids that tried it… It was great. Noah got a lollipop that was in the shape of a sushi so he was happy.
Meet in the lobby shortly to discuss tomorrow. First “tournament”. Oh boy!
