Most flight from Malaysia/HK will arrive in Tokyo early in the morning. I really mean early (eg before 7am). The flight I took arrive in Haneda airport (Tokyo) on schedule at 6.30am. We took off from HK at 2am and given that the flight was only 3 hours, we barely could sleep on the flight. The food serve on ANA airways was quite delicious rice with fish, cold soba.
With all the planning done upfront, we know we had to take the JR line from Haneda to Shimbashi followed by a short walk to Daimon and take the "dark pink" metro line from Daimon to Higashi Shinjuku. It will aways be handy to carry both the Tokyo JR line and subway map with you whereever you go as you you will most probably be taking it quite frequently.
Pic 1: Tokyo JR East map for download.
Pic 2: Tokyo Subway Map
For this trip, I have converted some of my hotel points for free stay so I had to move around during my few days in Tokyo. The first 2 days, we were putting up at Sunrounte Higashi Shinjuku. For your planning purpose you can check out the best ways to get from one location to the next through this Train Route Finder website.
Hotel check in time in Japan is normally at 3pm. Most hotel will not let you check in earlier but you could place your luggage at the concierge, go for a walk and check in later in the afternoon. Alternatively, some hotel will let you check in earlier for a nominal fee if they have rooms available. Somehow, we were too tired so we paid ~1500yen (USD15) to check in at 9am.
Once we were fully charged up, we headed to Odaiba, a large artificial island in Tokyo Bay which is located across the rainbow bridge from Central tokyo. Located there is the Fuji Television Studio, Aqua City Shopping Center, Decks Tokyo Beach Shopping mall to name a few and it has very nice night view ( very romantic especially if you capture both the rainbow bridge and statue of liberty at the background)
To get to Shibuya from Higashi Shinjuku, we have decided to take the Fukutoshin metro line towards Shidome and change to the Yurikamone line from Shidome to Daiba.
Close by Odaiba there is Ooedo-Onsen-Monogatari (hot spring hotbath) and Tokyo Venus fort (venice theme shopping mall ). To fully see the Odaiba, do allocated at least 4 -6 hours to walk around.
We decided to have our dinner at the Aqua Shopping Center and found a okoyomiyaki shop on located on the 4th floor. The price for the okoyomiyaki was around 1200yen per person
After dinner, we decided to drop by at Shibuya before returning to the hotel.
Direction from Odaiba to Shibuya
Take the Yurikamone from Daiba to Shimbaishi and change to the JR Yamanote line from Shimbaishi to Shibuya.
Shibuya is one of the major shopping and nighlight area. The intersection in front of Shibuya 109 building location is normally selected for movie filming. Here you will find a lot of pubs, pachiko machine and lots of dining shops.
After walking around for 20minutes, we decided to head back to the hotel to rest as we have been out the whole day. For our journey back, we took the JR Yamanote line from Shibuya to Shinjuku and change to Fukutoshin line from from Shinjuku to Higashi Shinjuku. Sunroute Higashi Shinjuku is located just across the metro exit.
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