We walked to Asakusa station, but on the Ginza subway line. We paid the fare and went to Ueno station where we got on the JR Yamanote line, my favourite train line ever, to Tokyo Station. At Tokyo station we found the JR railway cafe to exchange our JR pass vouchers to our JR passes. We took a number from the machine and waited a few minutes for a lady to help us. The JR are not as elaborate now […]

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