Let's Travel•Eat•Play!

We visited Tokyo  Fire Museum on the last day of our Airbnb stay. We didn't want to venture too far on this day, as we had more packing up to be done before making our way to Fujiyoshida the next morning. Tokyo Fire Museum is conveniently located right beside Yotsuya-sanchome Station, which is a 5 minutes train ride from Shinjuku station on Marunouchi line. And...the admission is FREE!!! Haha, sounds like the perfect option for a short day out or just fitting in a program for the kids before we parents bored them with shopping at Shinjuku area! A hanging French helicopter to welcome you at the main lobby! This museum consists 5 levels of exhibits and an observatory deck on the 10th storey where visitors can enjoy the view or feed their hungry kids as eating and drinking are strictly prohibited at other levels of the museum. The staff handed us a museum information guide and recommended that we begin the tour from level 5. There's stamp rally too, so don't forge...

I chanced upon Ninja Trick House on Tripadvisor and was pretty impressed by the many positive reviews it received. The hubb read about them on some travel forums too. So I noted it down as a "Shinjuku To-Go". We were at Shinjuku on the 6th day of our Tokyo vacation and decided to check out Ninja Trick House after lunch. There is this small signboard of Ninja Trick House outside its building. There wasn't any elevator so we walked up the narrow stairs to the 4th floor, yep...together with a 7.5kg stroller plus 2 helium-filled balloons courtesy of Takashimaya plus our shopping bags. Luckily there is always the Ks' daddy to do the carrying! 😃😃 We registered with the friendly lady staff. It costed 1000¥/person (above age of 3) and it's approximately 25mins/session. We had a short waiting time of less than 20mins, while another fellow Singaporean family who arrived minutes after us had to wait for the duration of 2 sessions. I made use of the waiting t...