A lost day?

Ooooh look we lost a day.
A busy day yesterday, productive in many ways and utterly frustrating in others.


We managed to go out with "only" 5000円 - about £40 / $60 at the current exchange rate. It was an accident, and a mistake. In the harshest lesson in how cash oriented the Japanese economy still is it was nearly all gone after lunch.


2000 buying a Suica payment card for the trains.
300 for a couple of train tickets (because we didn't have enough money to buy the two Suica cards we actually need AND lunch).
450 on an egg sandwich and water for the kids to share.
840 on some hangers in the 100円 store (actually, its a 100円 store, but who's counting?).
1000 on something for us to eat.
It goes fast!


We made it to the bank to set up our (my) account. Today this is looking like a smart thing to do first! We didn't make it to the ward office to complete the things that the relo agent should have told us we needed to do whilst there on Thursday. We did make it to Yodobashi Camera - YAY - to buy an iron (that Tokyo Lease forgot to supply) - BOO - and an Apple TV to make more sense of TV than we can with the Japanese satellite service.


We also went to Softbank and after some procrastination arranged a mobile phone in quite an efficient process. Japan, true to form, is exceptionally expensive for mobile phones too (to us at least). On the up side, we picked up some free gifts in the process.


We popped into the supermarket at Ishikawacho station on the way back thinking that it might just take card like the Union in Motomachi. 
Nope. 


So with the few remaining coins we had left we bought the only orange juice (and chocolate milk) we could afford and left.


The evening is probably best left undocumented. We live outrageously close to Chinatown. Should be easy to score some food quickly right? Lets just say that we need lessons in survival Japanese ASAP. Toast for dinner :(