Happy new year everyone!!! – from Woop and Wob!
Apologies for the delay everyone. We’ve been going a bit of a rough patch so we didn’t have time to post recently. Now that everything is good, we’re going to wrap up our trip report from mid last year and we’re aiming to add a new post at least 3 times a week!
In this post, we will discuss how we spent our 8 hour layover in the Narita Airport in Tokyo. We just landed from Bangkok and you can see our review here: https://www.woopandwob.com/2019/09/its-woop-and-wob-again-and-this-time.html
If you ever find yourself with a long layover in Narita, there are many things you can do besides wait in the airport. In fact, Narita has an entire website dedicated to doing things in Japan during a long layover. See: https://www.narita-transit-program.jp/
After we landed in Narita, we went through immigration and rather than dragging our bags around, we decided to store our belongings in a coin locker for 500 yen. All you have to do is insert the money and select a locker to store your belongings. Smaller lockers are cheaper. A receipt will come out with a pin that you could use to unlock your locker and retrieve your belongings later. It’s a good idea for you to take a picture of your receipt in case you lose it.
After we stored our belongings, we went to the bus stops outside of the airport. There is a bus that takes you to Aeon Mall once every hour for 250 yen per person. You can find very detailed information here on how to get out of Narita Airport to get to the bus: https://en.aeonmall.global/mall/narita-aeonmall/access-narita/. There are even very useful pictures to follow.
Aeon mall has over 150 different stores, including a Daiso (a 100 yen shop) and arcades. Since we love arcades, we went to the arcade and there are lots of fun UFO catcher games that we can play there.
We then spent a few hours playing the Mario Party medal games. If you’re not familiar with medal games, they are games where you put medals into a machine with the goal of getting the medal into special slots. Then, bonuses and actions will happen on the screen. If you’re really lucky, you can win a lot of medals! In Japan, gambling is technically illegal, so medals cannot be exchanged for any money, but rather, these games are just for fun.
If you haven’t played the Mario Party medal games before, it’s an amazing variation of Mario Party on the Nintendo Systems.The goal is to walk through a board game and you get dice blocks by dropping medals into the lighted slots. Once you complete a board or get certain bonuses, there is a large crane that grabs Mario balls. These balls will become bonuses when you drop them into the front hole. Take a look at the images below and the video.
After we had some fun with the medal arcade, we purchased a bunch of things and we then decided to head back to the airport. We accidentally missed our bus…so we decided to take a taxi, which cost us 3000 yen, ready for our business and first class flight back to NY!
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