Japan Trip - Day 4 (28 March 2010)

We started the day every early today with morning call @ 5.30am. *FAINT*
Osaka, we are coming.

At 8.33am, we boarded the Hikari Shinkansen from Tokyo to Osaka. This is the 1st time all of us took a real Shinkansen ride and eat Eki Ben, also known as Train Bento.

It took us almost 3 and a half hour to reach our 1st destination - Osaka Kaiyukan (Osaka Aquarium). Wow, you cannot believe this, to enter the Aquarium require an hour. The queue was unbelievable. As we were already there, we joined the queue and experienced the highly recommended aquarium.

After entering the aquarium, frankly speaking, it was not what I expected it will be. However, it is definitely comparable with Singapore's Underwater world. Due to overcrowded, it was like a "Touch and Go"  thing rather than enjoying the underwater world.

A long escalator brought us up to level 8 and we started our journey with Otter, then more and more otter. Hee hee hee.....!!! Next is Penguin, Sealions and Dolphin. The penguins were so cute.......... there is this particular one posing as if he's on Titanic - "I am the King of the world".

Moving on, we finally came to the attraction of this aquarium - Whale Shark. Momo cannot take her eyes off it. It was so giantic and unbelieveable gentle.

That's almost all about the aquarium. We then proceed to Osaka Castle in hope of seeing some Sakura but instead of sakura, we saw street performancers and young girls selling all the idols merchandise. As we walked towards Kyocera Osaka Dome, that's when we realised that there is a concert going on. We were not so sure who's but it's definitely one of the famous Johnny's Juniors.

As we get closer to Osaka-jo, we saw sakura trees scatter here and there. It's not a lot but good enough for me to take nice picture.

The only regret about this Osaka trip is ....... we didn't manage to eat our favourite ramen in Kadoma-shi. ( T _ T ) We ended up with food from Izumiya supermarket. They are not very nice but definitely oishii.

Japan Trip - Day 3 (27 March 2010)

Today Momo went to the famous Harajuku fashion street - Takeshita Dori. It's crowded and I don't like crowd. =(

Anyway, Pris and Kath went straight to Paris Kids - the shop which sells accessories @ Yen315 for all items. My goodness, the Japanese girls are crazy. I cannot move around in the shop that means I cannot even see the accessories. Argh. Well, nevermind, we went on to Daiso. Surprisingly, this time, Pris didn't spend a long time in this 100Yen shop. *Phew*. Hee hee hee, sorry. As we walk further down the fashion street, we saw a shop that sells Cosplay costume. Interesting.....!! Momo even took a picture with Arashi. Can you see it?

Hungry hungry..... time for lunch. Our lunch today is HAMBURG STEAK. Yatta!! Pris had the traditional hamburg steak and Kath had Tomato sauce hamburg steak at the Jonathan Family Restaurant. This is our first time at this restaurant. There is even free flow of hot and cold drinks and soup. Yum yum. 

After lunch, we walked our way to Shibuya. It's not very far but hmm........ still tiring. Then, it's crowd again. Just standing at the famous cross junction of Shibuya station, I almost faint. I was speechless. We went for toilet break before heading to our next destination - Odaiba.

We took the JR train to Shinbashi and transfer to Odaiba's Monorail - Yurikamone. Momo took Yurikamone.

It was a short journey to Odaiba. We first went to the beach for Sakura and Rainbow Bridge photo-taking session. Next to Decks, Aqua City and Fuji Television. Frankly speaking, I was freezing there with all the wind and low temperature. We stayed in Aqua City until sunset in order to take the night scene of Rainbow Bridge. My whole body went numb just posing for the pictures....samui samui 

Next stop was Palette Town and Venus Fort. We had our dinner at the foodcourt at Venus Fort. There was quite a few choices and we decided on buta after an ojisan passed us and the smell of his buta rice attracted us.

Food ordering was interesting. You order your food and the stall attendant will pass you a small equipment that looks like a remote control. When your food is ready, it will beep and you return to the stall to collect your food.  Hmm...omoshiroii ne. Venus Fort is amazing. The artificial roof-top sky will change colour. One moment it is daytime and the next it is sunset, beautiful.

Then it was home sweet home, oops should be hotel sweet hotel.

Japan Trip - Day 2 (26 March 2010)

After a 7 hours flight, we finally reached Tokyo-Narita Airport. The flight was a bit too uncomfortable for Kathleen. (T_T) Anyway, here we are, in the local Keisei Train to Sugamo. We actually missed the station that we need to transfer to Nippori and we ended up somewhere out of the way. We took a U-turn back and found our way to Sugamo.

Behind me is Weekly Mansion Sugamo. As it was not time for check-in, we left our luggage with the reception and went to explore Sugamo Town. It's actually an interesting small town and we were quite puzzled when we came across a shop named [赤パンツ] which means [Red Lingerie] as you can see below.

Japan Trip - Day 1 (25 March 2010)

Yo yo yo yo...!!!

This is the beginning of  Momo's 1st Trip to Japan.
Here is my 1st photo taken in Singapore Changi Airport Terminal 2 - Departure Hall.

Hee hee hee....! Popping out of the master's bag to have fresher air.