Konbini coffee + walk to Asakusa
Family hotel breakfast or konbini grab-and-go. Subway one stop or walk if everyone's energized.
Everyone's awake at 4 AM. Use it. Senso-ji at opening before tour buses arrive, breakfast crawl down Nakamise, then a slow Ueno Park afternoon with playground time for Rosetta and benches for the grandparents.
Family hotel breakfast or konbini grab-and-go. Subway one stop or walk if everyone's energized.
Beat the tour buses by an hour. Light incense, walk through the giant lanterns, watch the morning prayers fill the kannon hall.
Melon pan, ningyo-yaki (little cake-fish), agemanju (fried sweet bun). Don't fill up — lunch is a real meal.
Edomae tempura over rice. Old-school, dark sauce, lines but worth it. Easy for a kid — fried things on rice.
Big open park, ponds, lots of benches. Rosetta runs around. Linda + Kerry sit and watch. Optional: Ueno Zoo if energy holds.
Back to the suite. Everyone naps if they want to. No guilt. Day 1 jetlag is no joke.
Don't push it. CoCo Ichibanya curry, a casual ramen shop, or department-store basement food hall (depachika) — pick what's nearest.