Tokyo — Wed 17 Jun

✈️ ICN → NRT 🚌 Airport Limousine 🏨 Cerulean Tower 🍜 Ichiran night

🛂 Before you leave the airport — Visit Japan Web QR codes ready. You completed VJW for all three last night in Seoul. Have the QR codes open at immigration (saved screenshot is fine if the app is slow). Then bags, then out to the bus.

The plan, in one line. Klook van to ICN this morning, fly into Narita, find the orange Airport Limousine counter in the arrivals lobby, ride straight to the Cerulean's own door, check in, then ease into the Japan leg with solo-booth ramen a few minutes from the hotel.

🗺️ Around the hotel (Shibuya)

Cerulean Tower (base) Dinner picks Shibuya Crossing

Everything tonight is a short walk from the Cerulean. Narita itself is ~60 km east — off this map; the bus brings you in. Tap a pin for its name.

The Day

morning · Seoul

🚐 Check out → Klook van to ICN

Pre-booked

Last morning at the voco — flag the continuous stay is closing and settle anything outstanding. The Klook private van (voco → ICN) is pre-booked; English-speaking driver, ~60–75 min, name board at the door.

Tip: have passports + VJW QR codes to hand before you board the flight — you'll want them the second you land at Narita.

afternoon · arrival

🚌 Narita (NRT) → Airport Limousine to the Cerulean

~75–125 min~¥3,600pp

Steps on landing: immigration (VJW QR codes) → bags → in the T1 arrivals lobby find the orange Airport Limousine counter → buy 3 tickets, Shibuya route, Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel stop → staff give the outside bus-stop number and tag the bags → board, off at the hotel entrance.

Buses run roughly hourly; realistic boarding ~16:15–16:45. Nothing to pre-book. NEX train = fallback if the bus timing is poor.

G Cerulean Tower · Google Maps

~18:00 · check-in

🏨 Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel — Shibuya

5 nights · 2 rooms✓ booked

Your Tokyo base for the whole leg — Agoda, breakfast + WiFi included. Drop bags, regroup, and let the travel day settle before dinner. The hotel sits right above Shibuya, so everything tonight is on foot.

Reminder set: book Lisette & James's 24 Jun train home on-trip, ~1 week out (Heathrow Express → Paddington, then GWR → Exeter → Barnstaple, Two Together Railcard). Worth doing from the room tonight or tomorrow.

evening · dinner 🍜

🍜 Ichiran — solo-booth ramen (the arrival-night pick)

EATJames-confirmed

Confirmed by James back on 1 June — individual solo-booth tonkotsu, a short walk from the hotel. Order by ticket machine, sit in your own booth, low-effort and perfect after a travel day. Two easy alternatives below if there's a queue.

🍜 Ichiran Shibuya — the plan

24h tonkotsu · solo booths · short walk

Famous personal-booth ramen; rich tonkotsu, customise the richness/spice on the order sheet. Easy and fun for a first Tokyo night.

G Ichiran Shibuya · Google

🥩 Gyukatsu Motomura — beef cutlet

Shibuya · grill-your-own at the table

Crisp panko-fried beef you finish on a little hot stone at your seat. A reliable, satisfying Shibuya standby if Ichiran's line is long.

G Motomura · Google

🍣 Uobei — conveyor sushi

Shibuya · touchscreen, plates on a rail

Fast, cheap, fun — order on a screen, plates zip to your seat. Good low-key option, especially with James.

G Uobei · Google

📋 Day at a glance

Check out of the voco → Klook van to ICN → fly ICN → NRT → immigration with VJW QR codes → orange Airport Limousine counter in T1 arrivals, Shibuya / Cerulean route → ~18:00 check in at the Cerulean Tower (5 nts, 2 rooms) → Ichiran solo-booth ramen near the hotel.

Only real jobs: VJW QR codes ready at immigration, and buy the right Airport Limousine ticket (Shibuya route, Cerulean stop). Everything in Tokyo tonight is walkable.

↪ Tomorrow: a full Shibuya day on foot — the Crossing, James's flagship-store floor at Parco 6F, an Omotesando wander, and a proper ramen night.