I flew outta Gimhae first thing Sat morning - saw Laura at the airport but we were on different flights ;-( With hind-sight I can tell you that heading home to pack at 2am slightly drunk is not the best of ideas. Upshot is I slept through most of the plane ride.
Once I got into Narita I got 3 days worth of subway tickets (note, they are only for the Tokyo metro lines, not TOEI) and grabbed a slow train that ran as a metro service through Asakusa station - every metro line except the smaller guage K and M lines (the first two subway lines built in the city) have through running with suburban services.Dropped luggage at our hotel and wandered around Senso-ji Temple. It was Lunar New Year so there was a market and a lot of people there. Saw some monks lighting incense for good luck for the next year. There was also a strange wooden block thing that the Japanese people would pay to pick at random - I couldn't read the writing on it.
Afterwards walked to the Sky Tree (it was 2 subway stops away but a TOIC line, also the riverside walk was refreshing). If you can find out how to book online for the Sky Tree I suggest you do it - we had to queue for a time period to come back to buy a ticket! Highly efficient but wish I'd stopped off there first!
Got some delicious marinated beef and rice for dinner and headed back to the Sky Tree. A bit of background info - it's 634meters tall and the tallest tower in the world (second tallest structure about 190m smaller than the Burj Khalifa). It's a lot better than Namsan Tower, we got there as the sun was setting so got the full experience. Spent a while wandering round and taking photos and enjoying the interactive screens in addition to the amazing views.
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