Up and At 'Em

[kevin_standlee]

I woke up on my own at 6 AM, so I'm obviously not completely time-adjusted here, but I did get six-seven hours sleep. Not much new came in overnight, thank goodness. We'll get going shortly and find out what's open here around 8 AM that doesn't cost JPY3000/person for breakfast.

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Expensive breakfast!

[tkunsman.livejournal.com]

JPY3000/person for breakfast? Yup. Welcome to Japan!

Try the grocery store. Not sure if you have access to a kitchen, but if you do this is one option.

Hopefully you will not have seaweed salad for breakfast, as that is what I had for breakfast one morning on my trip to Japan, before my host then started making more "American" breakfast for me :-)

Re: Expensive breakfast!

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

JPY2730 (+service) is the cost of ordering room service breakfast. It is not a typical cost from the shops around here. For instance, we had "breakfast sets" (coffee/tea, egg, breakfast meat, toast, salad -- the last part I didn't want but didn't have a choice) the past two mornings at two different places for around JPY1000/person, which is not excessive in my opinion.

I am not finding food to be excessively expensive. The restaurant prices here seem to me comparable to what I would pay in a comparable area in the USA. I'm relieved, actually, given that people seemed to be telling me that I'd pay $10 for a cup of coffee or something like that. The most expensive place we've eaten so far was JPY2050/person for an all-you-can-eat buffet last night.

Food in the hotels is expensive, of course. But that's the same everywhere, like the GBP25 breakfast buffet in Glasgow; the similar sort of thing here is around JPY4500, I think.

This is an expensive hotel. Therefore, the rooms have fewer amenities. No microwave oven, and the refrigerator is actually an honor bar. (Fortunately, there's a bit of space in it where we can store small things and it's no the motion-detector or daily-inventory and charge-for-opening-door type of bar.)

We planned on using the grocery store down the street, and buying some breakfast stuff to take back to the room last night -- we just misread the hours of the place, and it was closed by the time we got there on account of the opening ceremonies being so late.