Japan was surprising very easy to manouver around, despite most of the people speaking limited English. The subways are all well labelled in English and we're lucky that most of the Janpanese Kanji resembles their Mandarin counterparts in meaning. As Chinling put it, it felt like a super modern and clean Taiwan on first encounter and we felt right at home. Could also be due to the many Japanese dramas we watched....=P
We went during Christmas, and even though there was some Christmas lights, Japanese don't seem to be very involved in it.
TOKYO
Along the streets of Ginza.
Christmas lights at Roppongyi and Ginza

Imperial Palace
Asakusa

Our humble abode for our stay in Tokyo
One of the shops in Ueno - Reminding us of Akira (Nobuta wo Produce) saying that he felt very fortunate everytime he eats the fish shape cake

Muji shop - there're loads of them around Japan and they all look exactly like the ones we have in S'pore, only very much larger in scale

The Garden Walk - A dream land for shoppers of branded goods.
The busy streets of Akihabara - this is the exact same street in one of the scene where 'L - change the world'