We head to Tokyo first thing in the morning. We try to catch an earlier Shinkansen train but we missed it by a few seconds. Mainly because it took us so long to get to Shin-osaka st va JR line & Shin osaka is huge station. So we arrived at Tokyo at about 1:00 PM.
Tokyo station is huge by far compared to Flinders st in Melbourne.
We waste a lot of time navigating around the station. Finally we catch the Yamanote line, but unfortunately the wrong way of the loop, so it took almost 1 hr to get to Ikebukuro st.

From there finding the accommodation is easy. So we checked in at the Sakura Hotel Ikebukuro & we are checked to Annex building on the opposite of the main building. The room was smaller than the Dormy inn in Osaka.
We spend the sunset in observation tower in the government building. Amazingly it was free entry. Then the rest of afternoon was spent walking around in the Kabukico area.
We had dinner in Kabukico in a restaurant that asked you to cook your own food. That night I woke up not feeling so well, feeling like throwing up.