Kaoru slept in a bit this morning, so we didn’t start breakfast until just before 9.00. The 4 of us went to Royal Host – Lyn suggested pancakes. Of course they were only American style, and not Japanese style. Kaoru had the same, and I went with the Japanese Style. Paul had eggs and bacon with bread. Breakfast included “drinks bar”, and we could even use the coffee machine to make a decent coffee / hot chocolate. Paul and I joked because the menu had beer on it. Then we saw two women drinking beer!

We returned to the room to clean teeth and prepare for the day, and then off we went for our last “full day in Tokyo”. First was the train to Ginza, where we showed them the kabuki theatre, and then Nissan Crossing (which Kaoru and I did last trip). There were different cars inside this time, and Paul was happy once again.

It wasn’t much of a walk to our next destination – Ginza Lion Building, which is the oldest Beer Hall in Japan. So we enjoyed a drink there.

We wandered around a bit more, in and out of shops, and then caught a train to Tokyo station. We went out of the building to have a proper look back at the station:

Then it was a walk around the station to show it to Paul and Lyn. Kaoru, once again, managed to find a nice establishment for us to visit….

We wandered around the station a bit more, down “Character Street” – an area with lots of toy shops. Nothing that really interested me, but Paul and Lyn enjoyed the Tomika shop, and also the Pokemon shop (for the grandkids, of course…)

We caught a train back to Shinagawa, and went to a couple of the pop up shops around there, before returning to our room. We were back about 5.00, and had half an hour or so of relaxing, before heading out for the evenings adventure.

About 5.45 we met up, and walked down to the river. There we boarded our evening river cruise. Kaoru had organised this for Michael, Leila and the two of us some years ago, but we were sitting on the floor. This one had tables, and was much more civilised!

It was an “all you can drink” cruise, with japanese style entree, sushimi, then 7 different types of tempura, and some dessert. We enjoyed beer, cold sake, hot sake and wine. Then they did some announcements, including Paul’s birthday. Everybody on the ship sang happy birthday to him, and people looked over our partition saying “Tanjoubi Omedetou” (Happy Birthday). He was then given a thermos with the cruise lines logo on it as a present.

Halfway through the cruise it stopped for us to go on the deck upstairs and have a good look around at the views of Tokyo at night. And, of course, take some photos. On the way back we had another stop, and while Kaoru and I enjoyed taking photos up the top, Paul couldn’t get up the stairs because a group of salarymen on the cruise all wanted to congratulate Paul and shake his hand. They even gave him a sash – not sure why they had it, but it translated to “man of the day”. So of course he had to wear that to keep them happy.

We walked back to the hotel, and went to Paul and Lyn’s room for a drink and dessert. It was certainly a perfect night to end the vacation on.