Sister Trip 2026!!

    My sister came out for her vacation again this year. She has been doing this type of trip with her husband now two years in a row. But sadly, this will be her last visit for some time. So this year was a bit shorter than last year and of course she wanted me to take her to Japan! 

As we walked to the main hotel lobby. A view from behind us, the west wing.

 

We left Guam on the 13th evening flight and arrived in Haneda Airport Japan that evening around 10pm. We made it to our shuttle bus for our hotel and arrived at the Hotel JAL City. It was late and a lot of people checking in as well. We found out that there are two buildings for the hotel and we went to the wrong one. So a little walk down the street and our hotel was there in the West Wing. Checked in we searched for the vending machine on our floor and tried to get bottle water. Sadly, they were all out. So luckily the lobby had a drink and or coffee dispensers. We took our drinks and back to the room we went to relax and plan out our next few days.

Early morning view as we walked towards the main lobby.

  

My breakfast. They had good choices!

a bit of our hotel room.

By early morning, we took our breakfast vouchers and had to go back to the main hotel lobby for the breakfast. We even decided to check out the 7/11 store close by. Lots of snacks, food items and blind boxes too! We grabbed some fruit sandwiches, water and chips for later. We relaxed a bit before heading out. 

from the 7/11 store. I was also tasked to get Furukaki for family. LMAO.

I opened the blind box I got from the seven eleven. It's a cute Fuwa Fuwa mascot fuzzy pin key chain. I love the fuzziness of it and you can wear it as a tin pin or hang it off your purse!! It was a nice little surprise to find one box at the store. So after relaxing a bit we headed out for our adventures!! We took a taxi to Shibuya. Because my sister wanted to stop by Mega Donki. We were there early around 9am and spent a few hours in the store. We bought a few small items. Then, made our way to Mcdonalds for a snack since we were still full from breakfast. 

Melon soda and the strawberry Daifuku pie!!

After that we took a taxi to Nakano Broadway. I wanted to have my sister see Mandarake there. We ended up being a bit lost but eventually found our way. We did a bit of shopping on the 1st floor and ended up having my sister get her hair cut too! The barber did a great job and it only cost her about 1400yen or like nine dollars!! 

We just happened upon a Hair Cut place on the 1st floor!!

 

My sister's first time at Mandarake!!

I took some video and also tried to find some of the bag shops for my sister to look at. But ended up just window shopping and checking out the area. So many cute key chains, anime goods, vintage, dolls, and toys. I even stopped by at some of the gacha machines. I got some gachas for the kids. 
 

resold gachas!

One of my favorite spots!! Vintage Dolls!

By the end of the day we were exhausted and it was only around 2pm. So we made our way back to the hotel for the night. We decided to rest up and pack a bit, and called it an early night. By Thursday morning we decided we'd do breakfast, get back to our room. Relax and nap a bit and check out by 11am and catch the shuttle bus back to the airport. We were both in bed by around 9pm. Haha!

Wednesday evening sunset a view from our hotel room window.

 

At Haneda Airport Terminal 3. Godzilla Greeting you!

By Thursday morning, we checked out at 11am, and made our way back to the airport. We spent the day shopping at the airport at most of the shops we went to last year. I did stop in to a camera or gadget shop looking for Fuji Instax film. Sadly, it sold out. We ate at Mos Burger for lunch, and then found a Subway and had sandwiches for dinner. By 8pm we went through TSA and did some more shopping in the terminal. 

Roar!!

 

Camera shop with all those cute mini cams!!

 I found some of those viral 7/11 socks and got them for family and myself!! Haha! By around 10pm our gate area was ready and we made our way onto the plane. It was time to go home!! Definitely a great sister vacay again and we did exactly what we had planned, which was to visit some of the shops and stores from last year and the new thing for my sister was visiting Nakano Broadway!! Another great adventure with my sister!!  

 

Goods from Japan!!

 Above the haul from Japan. Some items for family, friends and myself!! Definitely a fun trip and lots of neat things. I can't wait to use the Kodak Charmera!! More on that one later!

 

I hope you all have a great rest of your October!! Go out there and Live!!

 

Thank you for visiting! ~ ggsdolls