27 October 2025
More tunnels under the track
Ochanomizu to Shimbashi
Cheap ramen is better than expensive halal ramen. Read on for proof.
Tonight I set off with no plan, walked south until I got to the Imperial Palace, then quickly decided to flee in case of a passport check from the hundreds of angry police hanging around. Carrying your passport is the law, numerous foreigners have been arrested and held for a week in solitary before deportation forever, including one guy who was next door to his hotel at the convenience store. However with Australian passports now about $500 combined with my love of getting soaked and muddy with the odd fall into running water, I take the risk and leave it in my hotel.
Tonight was also very hot, too hot for pants, but I had on pants. Taking off your pants in the street is also probably illegal in this overly governed country.
Tomorrow is again a hiking day, the second in a row. I need to make up for lost opportunities due to the rain on my first day after arrival.
Food trucks are still a thing, everywhere. There is still nowhere to sit at a table, instead you just pour whatever you ordered into your lap or onto the ground. As long as you take a photo first its all good.
The buildings around here aver very square and uniform. Apt.
Here is a store for the people that helped me draw a bad picture of a dinosaur earlier. I went in and showed them. They asked me to leave when I asked if it was a boy or girl dinosaur.
Tokyo station, from over the road.
Tokyo forum... from over the road.
Now it is time to explore the tunnels under the trucks. Modern and concrete.
Yurakucho, with a camera shop, and more train tunnels.
This train tunnel is lined with old bits of metal.
Multi level seafood restaurants always do the most external decorating. The top floor has some kind of strobe light situation going on.
Many of the train tunnels are smoky.
Here is tonight's superior cheaper ramen. 1000 yen ($10). Green chilli salt ramen, with extra green chilli. Very delicious.
And then after not too long at all, I arrived at Shimbashi. You can tell by the old train parked out the front. I have stayed in this area a couple of times.