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Sunday, March 29, 2009

10:34:00 PM

28th Jan 2009

Mt Fuji - Lake Aishi - Hakone

need to reach Hilton Tokyo hotel @ 7.45am..

in order to catch the bus for the 1 day tour..

Hilton Tokyo is pretty far from our hotel..therefore..have to wake up super early..

see..there's shrine everywhere..

@ the hotel...

look at bf's shag face..

we met our tour leader of the day.. very petite and soft spoken lady.. she can speak english very well.. coz she stayed at canada for yrs..
on the coach on the way to Mt Fuji

there's a theme park there.. was told that this roller coaster is on the Guiness World Record..

we reached a place for toliet breaks and shop for soveniors...

this is the place..

the route map of mt fuji..

there are 5 stations in total.. permits to weather condition..

we are lucky that day..we could go up to the 4th..

on the way up

we reached!

MT FUJI

the 4th station - 2020m high

after which..we had our lunch at this resturant at one of the hotels..

my delicious bento set

the view outside the hotel..

the next stop..

we will be taking a cruise along Lake Aishi..

we leaving the dock

on board

very sunny..but freezing cold.

another shrine..in the middle of no where..

reaching Hakone

next..we will be taking a big cable car..reaching the top of the hill...

in the cable car..

on the way up..

our cable car..

we reach the top..

look at this whole piece of land..

there's another shrine..

top of the hill...

magnificent view..

we took the earlier cable car back..

n went to their soveniour store...

hahaa..!!

oh..i regreted that i didnt bring back one of this..

coz its quite exp in sg..

after that we took a coach to the train station..

and took a bullet train back to city..

the train station..

us with our favourite cocoa drink..

their vending machine have hot bottle drinks too..

the station we are at...

us on the bullet train..

we thank our tour guide n went separate ways..

went to have our dinner..before going to takashimaya.. the showcase - Anteprima..Hello Kitty Collection..its for Valentine's Special...

within taka..there is a store name Tokyu Hands..

they have everything...it took up a few storey of taka..

2:52:00 PM

30 Jan 2009

Gotemba Premium Outlets

Left the hotel early to the train station to get the earliest bus tickets..

but when we reach its already 9am..the earliest is 8plus..

the bus had left..so we had to purchase the next slot which is at 10.30am..

so we bought the 2 way tickets..

so off we slack at starbucks...

one cons is we had to finish shopping n board the bus back to city at 6pm..

by the time we reach the place is close to 12pm..so im left with 6 hrs to shop..

n its not ENOUGH!!! i run as i shop..

there's hundred over shops to cover..east and west wing..

at corridor outside our room..

slacking at starbucks..

at around 10am..we cross the road n went taka..

went to see the Samantha Thavasa wallet n bags..

its their local brand there..

outside taka waiting for bf to finish his smoke...

after 1hr n half journey..we reached...we took a short nap on the bus..

the bus can lay back too..

me @ gotemba

its quite misty that day coz its raining since morning..

n its very cold

2:30:00 PM

31st Jan 2009

Shibuya Day

Shibuya is another shopping places..

but our main purposes of that day is to go to

the Tobacco and Salt Muesum..

we search n follow the map given..

took around 1 hr plus..we reach there..

n its closed for renovation..

i nearly fainted..

afterwhich we went for breakfast..

had ramen..haha...that's the cheapest breakfast we can find..

japanese are very healthy..you wont get to find soft drinks in the eating outlets..

they only serve hot/cold green tea..

bf self service - green tea

as usual went shopping.. they have bathing ape..n many other big malls there..
had our late lunch at this place.. they serve very nice ton katsu with cheese.. but of course not cheap

cant wait to start eating...

after late lunch..procced to 109 shopping mall

the gers there are hot..n they have large variety of clothes n shoes there..

its all for gers..nothing for guys..bf very sianx..stand there n look at gers loh..hahah...

2:11:00 PM

1st Feb 2009

Shopping at Ginza...

Ginza is like our Orchard Road..

High end shopping malls with high end stuffs..

but as jan-feb is their sales period..

hahah..i shop..n its cheap..

they have big flagship of H&M..my favourite..

they seal off the traffic to allow ppl to walk freely on the road..

dear standing in the middle of the road..

Japanese love dogs..they treat it like their children..

n they can bring their dogs to anywhere.. not like in sg..

heard from the Mt fuji tour guide.. its expensive to have children in jap.. therefore..they preferred dogs..

at a toy store..which have 4 floor up n 1 basement level..

jap love toys to much.. very cute stuff..feel like buying all back..

the doll which is showcase outside the store.

we spent the whole day at Ginza...

n we did not finish..its too big..

afterwhich we took a train to Ueno..

we went to the night market again..

to search for the tidbits store...that Quan Yi Feng n Ben show promoted..

but we can't find..but bf bought a leather shoes n a patent jacket..its so cheap

so end up..we had our dinner there..

there is this store selling good spag..

its underground..very cosy..

and their in house drinks are very nice...

1:21:00 PM

2 Feb 2009

Skiing Day

dear keep wanting to go skiing..

therefore, we purchase the bullet train ticket the night before

at the train station..

took the earliest bullet train to Gala Ski..

the juroney took 1 n half hr..

the seats are very comfy..

can lay back n take a short nap..

at the train station..bullet train behind

dear n his favourite cocoa drink...its warm..

reached!! its snowing..

*happy* coz i didnt get to see the snowing part in korea last yr..

the train station at Gala

there are stuff that speaks english..guiding us..

dear wanted to try ski board this time round..

so we pay for a coach for 2hrs..to teach us..

im really not talented in this..after the first round of coming down the steep slope.. i gave up..i dun want to slow bf n the coach down..

so i sat at the bottom n play snow...-_-""..

after 2 hrs..i took the gondola back myself and go for hot spring..

the hotspring has 2 section..one with swimsuit..n one is private..

naked hot spring..went for both..the whole place..there's only me myself n i.. as though like i book the whole place..

after the hotspring..they have a room for you to dry your hair n make up..

after that i took a gondola back to the ski place to see if dear

finish his 4 hrs of ski...

the view taken from the Gondola

sat at this cafeteria waiting for him..

they serve very nice...

ton katsu...and in big portion

the view from the cafeteria

look at his contented face!!

went back on the gondola..

need to catch our bullet train back to city

since when panda love prawn crackers

on the double deck bullet train..

n im aching all over..

goodbye to Gala

the interior of the bullet train

12:17:00 PM

Last Day of the trip (3 Feb 2009)

Woke up very early as usual around 5 plus in the morning..

coz we are rushing to the famous Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo.

pics as shown...

Arrival at fish market

dear's bento set..

my scallop and sweet prawn..i had two portion of that

outside the sashimi shop

the busy morning

the small little lanes within the market

next stop..we took a train to Harajuku...

its shopping heaven there..

reasonable price and nice stuff..

lots of cosplay going on there too..

can see maids walking around..

hhaha..

their smallest version of coke..

Polo Ralph Flagship..

nice one..

across the bridge..we will get to see Dior n Chanel flag ship..

Kiddy Land @ Harajuku..

its 6 floors up with 2 floors down... its huge..

hahaha..after the whole afternoon of shopping..

that's all my buy.. dear didnt get anything coz the guys' clothes there are exotic..

i wont want my bf to be in leopard print leggings..

this undergrounf leads to our hotel..

we have to walk pass here everyday

after loading all the things back in the hotel..

we went to Tokyo Tower..

at the foot of tokyo tower..

the ticket counter

in the lift up the 150m

tokyo tower mascot...

this is how wacky japanese are...

the city view

they even have alter in tokyo tower..

the transparent glass for us to look all the way down..

quite scary..

mini tower

after buying some souvenirs..

we left the place for dinner..

Saturday, March 28, 2009

9:48:00 PM

change my blog skin...

will be updating on my japan trip the next post..

finally resize all the pics...