Day 15

Today’s the last day and we decided to celebrate with….. a minuscule lie in - meet up at 8

Off to Starbucks for our usual and then our day was set aside for shopping






Joss was in charge so took us off to Koenji. It promised us vintage shops and it didn’t disappoint 














We had lunch there and afterwards went back to Shibuya so Hattie could buy her k-pop stuff

In fact I got in the act too and bought the Tokyo FC shirt that I wanted to buy at the game - it would have always eaten at me had I not got it

Then we finally did it - we broke Hattie - 14 days of 10s of thousands of steps and that was enough - she needed some recovery time

Kieren also wanted to go back to the hotel (for Wi-Fi) so it really was win win

Joss and I found a bar called Kirin City which had the most polite barman of Tokyo - we loved having a couple there








We then did a bit of packing, checked in for boarding passes online then met up with K and H to take them to the Hub British Bar for drinks and dinner





Then we went for the last thing that we’d booked - a visit to Shibuya sky at night - I have to say the views were spectacular 

































It was a fitting end to a spectacular holiday - I’ve loved it 


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