Visiting Tokyo in Cherry Blossom Season, Tokyo, Japan

We had said for a long period of time that to celebrate our 20 years together, visiting Japan would be perfect. With an anniversary at the beginning of April this would be the ideal time to visit in cherry blossom season. With some hiccups with our flights and some world politics affecting flight routes, our trip at times looked unlikely. Here we were though landing in Tokyo on a sunny late March afternoon to begin our adventures.

We landed at Haneda airport, navigated the QR code system for immigration and baggage claim before finally leaving the airport, tired, and deciding on an Uber to take us to our accommodation for the next 3 nights. After much research we decided to stay in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo, near to the main train station for a good transport options around Tokyo.

We booked the Petit Bali Forest Shinjuku Sanchome, which is a small love hotel (unbeknownst to us initially). Love hotels, it appears, are common through Japan for short rentals by the hour as well as longer stays, possibly for a secret rendezvous or some saucy shenanigans. For us it was a base, it was clean, well situated and had a free bar, soft drinks and copious snacks and toiletries. What else could we want! ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).