When I was told at work that I would be visiting Tokyo on a business trip for some training, I was really hopeful to find if we would have a couple days to look around the city – only later to find out that we would! 

On a Monday morning, Ian (my work colleague) and I head to the airport to catch our flight to Tokyo from London. After a long and tiresome non-stop flight (BA’s economy seats are pretty cramped).

Landing at 11 am (Local Time), the jetlag well and truly hits me. We wait for our host Tatsuro-san to take us to our lodging. On reaching the hotel in the heart of the Akhibhara. We decide to take a nap and then take a walk to explore the area. 

Over the next couple days we had training through the day and exploration in the evenings.

On Day 1 evening was we went exploring Akhibhara, better known as the “Electronic City”. When people say this is the Mecca for Nerds, they are not joking. The most difficult part of the experience of being in Akhibhara is sheer scale and amount of sensory inputs around, but I am going to try. Imagine Oxford Street in London or any of the biggest shopping areas in a large city and replace all the shops with electronic/geeky stuff – That is Akhibhara. 

On the final day before our time to leave we got around Tokyo. The view from Tokyo Skytree was particularly breathtaking

Here are few other photos from the day out in Tokyo

Then finally it was the day to leave on the long and arduous flight.