Thursday, May 21, 2009

Day 2 of Japan, still in the heart of Tokyo. Woke up really early this morning to head down to the tsujiki fish market. Here is a place where the japanese fish sellers auction for the different types of fishes as early as 5am. We headed down to this sushi restaurant where we had 7 pieces of sushi at at 60 bucks! But it was really nice, had unagi, tuna, raw fish, prawns and even sea urchin! The funny thing was that the sushi chef kept looking at our plates giving us pressure to finish our food! Sushi has never tasted as yummy!

Headed down to GINZA to do some shopping. This district is really atas with all the high end brands from US and europe, we even went shopping at uniqlo. Haha, but we didn't buy much since it was too expensive. Then we headed down for our sumo match which was held in this really cool place with really great decor. The warm up matches were intially quite boring but towards the end when all the seasoned fighters started to get into the ring, it began to get exciting especially with all the japanese uncles and aunties shouting and cheering!

Dinner was noodles with char siew, haha, the gyozas was really yummy! Headed down to Odaiba after dinner to catch the rainbow bridge which was totally nice. The view combined with the tokyo tower was absolutely stunning and the place was vv romantic! Hahaa, and we also found a fake statue of liberty at the same time which was really quite hilarious.

Alright, got to end off here. Disneysea tmr!!

Finally landed in Tokyo, the plane ride was pretty empty so I had 3 whole seats to myself on the way here! Food as usual wasn't too bad but could be better and we finally finally landed here! Pretty weird as loads of ppl were in masks (including us!!) once we alighted from our flight! After settling everything, we took a train ride from Narita airport all the way to check into our hostel. The hostel was a pretty cool place, very clean and cosy! Haha, realli great accommodation considering the cheap price we paid.

We then went around the Asakusa area to walk around abit and decided to settle for dinner. Food here is really expensive, and we had to walk around abit before we found this budget tempura place. And it was really yummy! Much nicer than any of those we had ever had in Singapore. After dinner, we took the train down to visit the Tokyo tower. Initially from a distance, it didn';t look impressive but we paid to go all the way up to the top of the tower and the view was breathtaking! Really pretty view of all the lighted buildings in Tokyo as well as bridges and even the ferris wheel!

After that, we proceeded to the Roppongi area, where apparently is the night spot for Japanese teens. There were loads of clubs and loads of black men on the street (I thought they were supposed to be in New York?) But anyways, pretty complicated place but we went into this realli huge pet shops (which apparantly Paris Hilton) has been in before! There were so many dogs and cats inside and it was so cute!!! I wanted to bring all of them home but oh wells! haha

Finally back at the hostel using the wireless, going to turn in now as tomorrow is going to me a long but fun day! Till then~~

Finally decided to embark on our trip to Japan despite the swine flu and many protest from the parents! I'm currently sitting on a sofa at the airport in front of some large screen tv which is showing a soccer match waiting to board the plane. Pretty weird day today as there were so many police officers checking us before we could enter the departure hall:( Hmm, and derek tot that it was some convict on the loose! Haha, feels kind of surreal as the last time i was here at the airport was leaving for my 1 yr trip to California! On the same airlines too!

Okie, going to board the plane soon. 12 whole days in the land of Japan! Will update again!

4:42 AM

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Haven't been updating this place at all since like october, which makes it around 8 months! Haha, I'm finally back in Singapore now, miles away from California which I miss so much! But I'll be embarking on my psuedo 'grad trip' to Japan on the 20th of May for 12 days! Will update on my trip!

11:12 AM