Nope, definitely cheaper. I bought one 1500 yen heat tech is a higher grade one that isn't sold here. At least I couldn't find it. Those 700 to 900+ are the ones sold here.

But if you're talking about t shirts and such dunno la haha.

Jeans was 6k for 2 pairs of their most expensive ones in the store iirc.

also to add, they have also provided tourists with free wifi for certain areas. for example if you go to akihabara visit the tourist center located at one of the duty free shops (the biggest one there again) and ask for the free wifi.

they will then ask for your passport for verification (but in our case did not cos we dont look like japanese) and pass you a card. behind the card you peel off the sticker for the password. instructions on how to use are there too

most of the major precincts have these free wifi areas, we got the cards for shibuya, akihabara and hakone.

disclaimer: though we did get the cards we did not use it cos we never stayed put in a place long enough to be surfing the net.

Went tenzan when doing the circuit in hakone. Awesome awesome! I vouch for this.

Would be great to stay there at least a night. Very peaceful environment

I rode on the romance car and tbh I don't see what's so special about it. It's really comfortable, like business class seats on planes and they serve food and coffee on trolleys but you have to pay la of course.

The only good thingi like about it is the express route. Straight to shinjuku with minimal stops. Take the express train will take up an additional 20 to 30 mins compared to romance.

Oh yeah if you got 4 people in your group you can swivel the chairs to face each other but mind the seats in front and back as it will hit their legs


Way too packed la tbh. To give you an idea we went ueno + science museum + akihabara already dark. And legs broke already. We didn't even explore the whole of akihabara, only a couple of hours. Warranted another visit at the end of our trip

Shibuya itself easily half day. Best shopping experience for me is Shibuya. Ginza abit pavilion feel so if you like brands you should be there