— A FAMILY FIELD TRIP TO THE FUTURE —

TOKYO

Six days. Two flights. One green loop line.
Godzilla, Sailor Moon, ten thousand orchids & a giant glowing robot.

JULY 2 – 8, 2026 · ORLANDO ✈ TORONTO ✈ TOKYO

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ROUTE MAP · 路線図

Where the week took us

Tap a glowing station to jump to that part of the story. Our home base was up by Ueno; nearly everything else hangs off the Yamanote loop.

東 京 湾 · TOKYO BAY 🌈 RAINBOW BRIDGE 池袋 Ikebukuro 東京 Tokyo 新橋 Shimbashi 上野 UENO · HOME BASE ⌂ 新宿 SHINJUKU · ゴジラ 渋谷 SHIBUYA · PARCO 6F 品川 SHINAGAWA · 🌙 SAILOR MOON 下北沢 SHIMOKITAZAWA + SETAGAYA 豊洲 TEAMLAB PLANETS ✦ お台場 ODAIBA · GUNDAM 🤖 羽田 HND HANEDA ✈ HOME
JR Yamanote Line 山手線 Yurikamome ゆりかもめ Local lines & transfers Airport run
DAY 0出発 · DEPARTURE

Getting There フライトの日

Up before the Orlando sun. A hop to Toronto, a long layover, then the big one — thirteen hours over the Arctic and the Pacific, chasing tomorrow across the date line.

HEARDPLANET FAMILY AIRLINES02 JUL 2026 · BOARDING PASS
MCOOrlando
YYZToronto
HNDTokyo
SEAT: TOGETHERGATE: ADVENTURESTATUS: ON TIME ✔
DAY 1到着 · ARRIVAL

Touchdown, Tokyo 東京到着

Wheels down. Elevated expressways stacked over rivers, a skyline that doesn't quit, and the happy blur of finally being here. We checked in and kept it local — backstreets, shrine fountains, a Pikachu vending machine, our first konbini run, and the city glittering outside the hotel window.

✈ HND Arrival🏨 Home Base · Ueno🍙 First konbini

神社と路地 Settling in — shrines, side streets & skyline

DAY 2山手線 · JY LOOP

The Yamanote Day 山手線一周

One famous green loop, three iconic stops. We rode the JR Yamanote Line like locals — Shinjuku for a kaiju, Shibuya for six floors of pop culture, Shinagawa for moonlight and magic.

Ⓙ JR Yamanote Line新宿 → 渋谷 → 品川

新宿 · JY17 Shinjuku — the Godzilla Head

Kabukicho's most famous resident, peering over the Toho Building — duly saluted by a kid in his Godzilla shirt. King of the Monsters, meet your biggest little fan.

渋谷 · JY20 Shibuya — PARCO, Floor 6

The nerd-heaven floor: Pokémon Center (Mewtwo brooding in his tank), the Godzilla Store, Jump Shop, and a Hunter × Hunter mural on the way in. Souvenirs were acquired. Many souvenirs.

品川 · JY25 Shinagawa — Sailor Moon Shining Theater

A live Sailor Moon stage show in a theater dressed head-to-toe for it — glittering transformation costumes framed like royal portraits, wands and tiaras on crimson walls, and a Happy Birthday finale with the whole cast. In the name of the Moon: unforgettable.

DAY 3下町散歩 · SLOW TOKYO

Setagaya & Shimokitazawa 世田谷・下北沢

A slower Tokyo. Yamanote plus little local transfers out to the west side: latte art and monster desserts in hidden cafés, thrift-shop streets, painted bike lanes, stone stairways with red railings, and glass-bottle Coca-Cola from a corner shop. No agenda — that was the agenda.

Ⓙ Yamanote🚃 Local transfers☕ Café crawl
DAY 4お台場 · TO THE BAY

Odaiba — Art, Light & a Giant Robot 未来の一日

A lazy hotel morning, then out across the water — the driverless Yurikamome climbing its loop and gliding over Rainbow Bridge to the islands of Tokyo Bay. The best day saved its best for dark.

Ⓤ Yurikamome monorail line🌈 Rainbow Bridge🚗 Uber home at night

チームラボプラネッツ TOKYO · 豊洲

teamLab Planets

You leave your shoes — and, honestly, reality — at the door. Wading knee-deep through warm water while koi made of light swim around your legs and burst into flowers. A mirrored garden of thousands of living orchids drifting down around you. Rooms of enormous breathing spheres that shift color like a sunset you can walk through. A crystal universe of infinite falling light.
Photos can't hold it. We tried anyway — 93 times.

ダイバーシティ東京 Night — the Unicorn Gundam awakens

After dark at DiverCity: the RX-0 Unicorn Gundam — 19.7 meters of white armor — lights up, shifts into Destroy Mode on schedule, psycho-frame glowing pink-red, while an anime projection show plays across the whole building behind it. One small Gundam fan (Sonic plush in tow) was extremely in his element.

🚗 The ride home: an Uber back across Rainbow Bridge — the city stacked in lights out the windows, one very tired kid, and the quiet kind of happy you only get at the end of a perfect day.

DAY 5帰国 · THE LONG WAY HOME

Sayonara, Tokyo また来るね

A sunrise drive to Haneda past a still-sleeping city, pilot-uniform Pikachus for the plane ride, a handwritten thank-you card from the hotel — then back across the Pacific, landing the same day we left. Time travel is real; it just requires a boarding pass.

HEARDPLANET FAMILY AIRLINES08 JUL 2026 · RETURN
HNDTokyo
YYZToronto
MCOOrlando
BAGGAGE: +1 GODZILLAHEARTS: FULLSTATUS: HOMEWARD ✔