Day 8 - Last Day in Tokyo

So it was a sad day for us as it was the last day in Tokyo. We woke up early in the morning to fix up our luggages, pack up our souvenirs and got ready to check out. Our check out time was 10am and our flight into Seoul wasn't until 8pm so we had to store  our luggage in the hotel luggage compartment. We made our way out of the hotel and towards the airport limosine bus service. The airport limo went to either the Narita or Haneda Airport. We were going to the domestic airport Haneda so we purchased our tickets which cost about 1700 Yen for the each of us. The lady told us it was an open ticket so we were able to go on any bus with the ticket. We were hoping that it would be reserved seating but it wasn't. We had to make sure we got there early to catch our 5pm bus.

Normally getting on busses is seen as a burden, however when you have reserved seating with some nice A/C, the bus ride is actually not that bad.

It was only 10am and our flight was later so we decided to walk around Shinjuku one last time. We stopped at the first restaurant we ever ate at on our first day in Tokyo (Curry House). It was super tasty cause this time we knew what to order.

Curry House is a popular Japanese food chain which serves pork or fish cutlet with their famous curry sauce on a bed of rice or a ball of lettuce. If there seems to be a bias in what is recommended please note that there is no bias, everything is honestly spoken and told. Therefore, I would recommend Curry House if you are hungry and are on a  budget. The food is cheap and the portions are quite sizable.

 After breakfast we were contemplating what to do. The fact that we've seen it all in the past, we decided to do all the things we enjoyed while we in Tokyo one last time. We also wanted to check out the Ueno Zoo during the week, but didn't get a chance because it closed at 4pm. So we figured we would check it out today. We made our way to Ueno Station and walked towards the zoo. We passed by a show in the park which was cool. The show had a varitey of performers each one specializing in a unique talent. One girl was flexible and balancing things on her feet and hands and this other girl was cutting things in half percisely with a whip. The other 2 acts consisted of a man who was able to transform his face with multiple masks. (Mask changer, these acts are quite common and I am sure you know what Im referring to) and the other act was a man who could balance his body a number of stacked chairs. When the show was over, everyone including the crowd watching the show, made their way to the zoo. The zoo was okay, I'd give it a 7/10. We saw tigers, bears, rhinos etc. It sucked because the main attraction at that zoo was Ling Ling the panda but it passed away a few years ago.

It was still early so we went to Asakusa again. I swear this was the 3rd or 4th time we were there! But we wanted to do some last minute souvenir shopping. This is a photo of the souvenir shops that line up all the way to the Senjo-ji temple.

Photo courtesy of "Tokyo Shopping" on the site www.rei.org/JPN/Tokyo (Really wish we could post our own photos but this is the best we got so you can visualize)

We made our way to Shinjuku afterwards and walked around and decided to have a small meal before our flight. Time was ticking so we went to pick up our luggage, waited at the airport bus stop (which was soooooo packed by the way), took the hour bus ride to Haneda.

When we got to Haneda, it was small and we were in line getting our luggages scanned. Yep, you heard right we were getting our actual check-in luggages scanned. They have really strict but safe rules compared to Canada I must say. After checking in, we walked to the waiting area where we waited to board our plane to Seoul, South Korea!

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