'' man... is he KIRA's???''
error one... the man!... 2nd error... ''is he KIRA's??'' kira's... i am not kira.... nor ryuk... nor light... nor any of the kiras... coz i gave away the ownership to briana... [ sound like deathnote... give away the ownership so that the next person can be the next kira...] joking joking...
well i think i will blog abit of my japan trip... 17 days was long... too long... but i did not miss singapore... i just miss the people back home only... [ had my laptop so it was not so bad...]
ok... was not really the 1st night... went to check in early... like 9pm... plus [ my flight was at 1am]... wanted to meet my aunt inside but she mc... -.- so went... looking at duty-free stuff... my dad wanted to refill his stock pile which is like at least 40 bottles not including wine...
the flight was nice.. [ what to expect from SIA] watched miami vice on the plane till like 3am... woke up at 5 by the flight crew... with a hot towel... but the sun rise was nice... and so do in-flight breakfast...
picked my bro up... at fukuoka airport... he was in japan for 1 week before us as he was with his school... from fukuoka airport... travel to hakata station to collect the JR pass... which allow us to travel all over japan, using JR lines for free for 2 weeks... coz we paid it in sg... waited for the train to go to kagoshima... the town where my bro was doing his choir thing... had lunch at the station... for like 3000 yen [$40] total for 4 and it was the type of japanese food the u get a sushi tei but in higher grades...
then it was back to traveling to sakurajima ... the volcano isle... it used to be an island till 90 years back...
had a full japanese style dinner... so japanese that it look like it was just out from japan hour... and was too expensive that the other days... we did not have this type of rooms and dinner... the next morning... went to the hot spring in front of the hotel... facing the sea... it was nice... with alittle cold rain... but it got too heavy till we had to run back to the hotel room.... -.-... went back to the city coz the hotel was going to close for the few days to clean up o.o.... well stayed at kagoshima-chou JR hotel
... and went to do some minor window shopping at the shopping centre next to the JR station... so look like a normal shopping centre on orchard road... later in the evening went to a shopping aracade called Tenmonkan and had dinner there... and one thing i learnt from this trip... i cannot let my mom to hold the cam... coz once she do... she take alot of photos
oh the crab sticks there are cheap... and fresh... and real... unlike the ones we get in sg... the next morning... went to some shires and the hill over looking sakurajima... then it was off to tokyo or at least we thought we could get to tokyo.
the bullet train known as the shinkansen... very very fast... from hakata station to tokyo is only 6 hrs at a fraction cost of a flight from fukuoka airport to tokyo...well, we reached shin-osaka station... late due to weather... which left us with 2 mins to spare to get the connecting train to tokyo... well we missed it coz my bro was in a moody mood thanks to no food...
-.- well reached shin-osaka and drop off the bags into 2 lockers then walk to around the place to find some warm place to hang around... found a MOS burger outlet that close at 2am.. so we spent our time... from 11pm to 2am ... eating mos burger food... and met a nice chinese guy working there... lucky got a chinese guy coz we did not know much japanese... [ blame me... i got o's... how to study some jap right after it?]
10 degrees weather... that sign in the background had the temp stated
and yes this is the night sleeping on the streets... the station outside was kinda clean...so we spent the rest of the time... from 2.45am to 4am... outside... waiting of the station to open... which was at 4am... got on the 1st train to tokyo... [saturday morning] full of families... going to disney land....
slept on the train to tokyo then it was to the tokyo hotel that we are staying in... to drop some bags coz we are going to an inn 1.5 hours from tokyo in snow resort and hot spring area.... echigo-yuzawa... but before that was a stop over for lunch at niigata... where my mom brought home some soba.... it was nice....
the snow resort... but cannot play with it or ski coz it was mostly ice... simple reason of that... we were too early... T.T... so for me... i still have not enjoy snow... in the sense of snowing snow... i have seen snow... on the floor... and that is all... T.T... i got to make a trip to a cold country.... or to somewhere else that is snowing... before global warmming melt it all...that place was boring... coz the sun sets in the easten side of japan at 4plus.. before 4.30.... went to another hot spring bath... before going back the inn for a home cook japanese meal...it was nice..the inn was run by this obasan [grandma, if u dun noe japanese]... very nice lady. she brought us to somemore shires in the area the next morning...
and have u seen a double deck bullet train? yap... a double deck bullet train... going at 270km/h... to tokyo... once back in tokyo... we drop off the bags at the little inn in tokyo... by the taiwanese lady called mrs chen... it is a cheap place to stay... at 3000 yen a night person... that is only SG$40... it is cheap if u look at the other hotels...went to shinbuya in the evening[ that is after 3pm] to see the place... it is like their orchard road... with 100 times the crowd we get here.... just look at the pic... the dotz on the other side are ppl also... and we will never see this type of crowd at a traffic junction waiting to cross... we only see this when have a crazy party... or that stupid underage party at MoS that time...
walk half of that place and realised the things i am looking for is not in that area... coz1. the bloody hip-hop people aka amerika followers... have taken over the small shops in the area...
2. gothic is not in thend there liao...
3. there are no cosplayers...
4. i cannot find a maid cafe!!!
5. too bloody crowded...
well at least i was happy to find hachiko and HMV...
if u watch nana... u want to visit hachiko coz nana komatsu was nickname hachiko cause of her puppy like behaviour... had dinner in shinbuya at like 5pm... [4pm sg time] coz the sky changed our stomach timing...
my dad had kirin beer... i had kirin orange juice.... -.- had horse sashimi... taste like beef... but soft like tuna sashimi... go to tokyo... it is a must try... got out of shinbuya and found the place i wanted to go... harajuku...
i want hoping to take some pics of the cosplayers there but 7pm at night liao... their 7pm... is like sg 8pm plus... closing time... time to go home... kind of time...
my mom took some pics in front of a shop that is selling some gothic clothes that dir en grey, miyavi, L'arc en ciel, HYDE, buck tick, nightmare and ar cafe and somemore visual kei bands and artist... if you dun noe any of the above names... u sux... go listen to to visual kei and more jrock!
found a nice cripes stall... which in the end my dad was fighting over it with me... my mom was fast in taking these pics.... i damn alot of vivien westwood products shop... went into one... and found out that the ring that nana have... nana osaki have was worth 33,400 yen [ SG$450]... the lighter that shin have was going at 40,000yen !!... now we know how rich is nana... and she is not working... i wonder how she get the money... *thinking evil*the next morning was disneyland! come on... i never been to disneyland before.. had a very fun time there
the ducks are cute and not scared of people... should have video how one of them chase a little girl around... the girl was so cute...
but too bad i had one of them for a snack [ in pic holding a drumstick.... turkey drumstick] very nice i would say... and not that expensive... not like singapore and malaysia themeparks... the F&B stuff are god damn expensive comparing to the outside of the themeparks...
my mom trying to catch me taking pic of them... -.- oh saw a little girl at disneyland that look exactly like my cousin... the little one with the kawaii face that i was playing with that day at IKEA...
my dad always want to buy one... for 5000yen... it was cheap... but he did not want to buy it... -.-... went back from disneyland at about 10pm... and had dinner at one of those vending machine restaurant near the inn... cheap, fast, alot but not nice... well what to do... -.- oh that day i learnt that in tokyo... u can meet alot of singaporeans...At disneyland, we at least recognized about 20 sg families... with the easilest tell-tail of 'lah', 'got', 'dun have', 'dunnoe', 'ah' and 'are they from back home' -.-my inn had alot of singaporeans staying too... and the whole place was either talking chinese, english or Cantonese... not a single japanese... -.-
the next day we left for mt fuji....
had a totally japanese style BBQ dinner... was nice...the temp that night dropped till 0 degrees... still not cold enough for snow T.T
some pics of fuji-san
i have not photoshop my face yet...
this is the gate to fuji-san... those that make the trip up... usually go through this gate... after the overnight trip to fuji-san the area... it was back to tokyo...went to this place called sunshine plaza coz of the rain...
and had DIY okonomiyaki for dinner...
went up to the place 60th floor to look at the nightview of tokyo... quite cool [no pics coz i have to edit them 1st...] and they had a bleach exhibit there... [ i did not know till my bro found it]
*sorry did not rotate it* that is the place where i got kage's kitsune and turtle's... well turtle... oh ya... gaint oct balls!!! one is the size of ur fist... -.-
headed to the fish market in the next morning... and had the most expensive meal in the trip and the most expensive breakfast ever in my life! the fish was fresh... till the point that some were still swimming in the tank behind the chef... and he knows about sushi tei! went to tokyo tower to see the day view of tokyo....
then to asakusa area to pray at senso-ji [ji is temple] it is to goddess of mercy... it is the same goddess as the one i pray to back home... so not much different...
got some charms... [me and my bro for studies, for my parents, good health and for someone, good luck]... once we were done in that area... it was a rush back to the inn to catch a train to kyoto...the inn in kyoto was the 2nd biggest that we stayed in the whole trip...
went to the imperial palace in kyoto... it is a very nice place... if u know a bit of chinese and kanji... the sign say [1st 2 words] kyoto [last 2 words] palace
the vistor enterance.... the place is full of guards... known as the imperial guards.. [ reminded me of starwars...]spent the evening at the biggest covered arcade in kyoto and the market called nishikikoji market... that place was where i had the 3000 yen dinner of sushi, got my goth punk shirt...
the next day was spent walking on the one temple trail...
and i have no memory on what happen later that evening... o.o ... went to another shire the next morning near kyoto station before heading down to osaka... spent the evening at namba area... i walked the whole of the aracade area... and got kinda pissed off of not finding any of the things i can get to bring back to sg... well went that place got one thing to do... that is eat crab sticks again!... it was fresher than the 1st one we had.. and more expensive of course... -.-
went to osaka castle the next morning... and found out that they dun even mention the word world war II in japanese at all... [ my chinese is not all bad... i can spot some kanji] when in english they stated the word WWII -.- tsk... nice game japs...
this was old osaka museum which was an army base in WWII... no wonder osaka castle got bombed... -.- after that... went back to the osaka station area to have dinner and back to the hotel room... i stayed behind when the rest went to walk downstairs... was on my laptop chatting with ppl back home -.-...the next day... went to osaka's pokemon centre... [ for my bro okay?] then it was off to hakata [fukuoka]... reached hakata to check in and off to hakata canal city... or at least to that area... reached there...i and my bro got stuck there for awhile... he was at the pokemon centre there... yap... he went to 2 pokemon centres in 1 day.... 1 day... o.o... i was stuck at the shojo jump shop. the offical anime/manga stuff shop... so zul... if u managed to read all the way here... this is where i got ur mug... got a Deathnote shirt from here too... and later found another shop that sells cosplay costume, and anime products like GitS!!! got my laughing man shirt from there and james's laughing man slippers that he say he is not using...
had dinner at one of the street-side vendors... and we some how managed to spend 9000 yen at there... o.o ... that is over sg$100 at a street-side vendor... i dunnoe if she rip us off or what...
the last 3 days of the trip[ finally] was like nothing to the other days... the 3rd last day was spent on shopping... at a supermarket very far out of town... but it was very cheap... later we went to tenjin area to get the ear/headphones.... my dad got what he wanted... my bro got what he wanted.. and i got 2 of what i wanted.. -.- dinner was at a korean bbq resturant... and we thought it will be like crystal jade korean one... nah... it was like seoul garden... but with the crystal jade feeling... -.-
the 2nd last day was another shopping trip.... at a tech shop.... last minute can get those stuff... coz last minute my dad credit card can use... o.o... had blowfish for dinner... no what i expected it to be... but it was nice...all below pic was using my D40... man i love that cam althought it is a 6.2megapix...
playing with the cam... and my flight back on the next morning at fukuoka airport.... i was a bumpy ride thanks to the weather but i managed to watch singapore dreaming and POTC 1 on board... 
well had a nice trip but at the airport i realised one thing... how the hell are we going to have the energy to carry this load of stuff up 4 floors?... it took us 15 mins... to do it...oh my god i am done... and it is 4:21... tsk... nite
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