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		<title>Yokohama to Kyoto on the Moonlight Nagara!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though we sorely (literally) regret our decision to take the night train instead of spending a fantastic night at the onsen place, trains are still very much my favorite mode of transport. While the night train as a bad idea, there was a certain sense of satisfaction gained when we reached Kyoto without any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=japanikun2008.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4541559&amp;post=36&amp;subd=japanikun2008&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Even though we sorely (literally) regret our decision to take the night train instead of spending a fantastic night at the onsen place, trains are still very much my favorite mode of transport. While the night train as a bad idea, there was a certain sense of satisfaction gained when we reached Kyoto without any hiccups along the way =)</p>
<p>Why the night train was uncomfortable</p>
<ul> <strong>o</strong> not enough room<br />
<strong>o</strong> lights didn&#8217;t go off at all!<br />
<strong>o</strong> there was this grumpy japanese guy beside me. I kept feeling like I was invading his space and couldn&#8217;t relax the whole night DX<br />
<strong>o</strong> hate sleeping with eye mask<br />
<strong>o</strong> When the train was in constant motion the rhythmic sounds of wheels on track lulls me to sleep, but whenever the train stops at a station, the noise of the other trains passing by becomes unbearable.</ul>
<p>Yisha couldn&#8217;t sleep too. She was awake to take pretty photos.</p>
<p>The sun rises early in Japan. It&#8217;s about 5am in the photo<br />
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<p>Passing by the countryside<br />
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<p>But finally! We reached the first part of our destination</p>
<p>Tsugi wa Ofuna desu =) We transfer from here. 2 more trains to Kyoto!<br />
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<p>On the first train from Ofuna to this other station, we were on this train that meandered past the countryside. It was really really lovely. I stood by the window and watched the scenery the whole time. No pictures, was too tired to take out my camera.</p>
<p>On the next train from the station to Kyoto, I fell asleep and actually drooled! Omg embarrassing much. I woke up to find this random guy staring at me in horror. LOL then I went back to sleep.</p>
<p>And finally&#8230;Kyoto!<br />
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<p>It was actually morning when we reached, but we didn&#8217;t take any pictures then.</p>
<p>Helloooo Kyoto!</p>
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		<title>Day 4: Yokohama to Kyoto</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 09:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Woot finally reaching the end the first part of our Japan trip, the Tokyo part =D Byebye Tokyo! We&#8217;ll be seeing you again in a few days time~ The plan for the day was to tour Yokohama with Chi-san as our guide, and then to take the night train from Yokohama station to Kyoto =) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=japanikun2008.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4541559&amp;post=28&amp;subd=japanikun2008&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woot finally reaching the end the first part of our Japan trip, the Tokyo part =D Byebye Tokyo! We&#8217;ll be seeing you again in a few days time~ The plan for the day was to tour Yokohama with Chi-san as our guide, and then to take the night train from Yokohama station to Kyoto =) I love trains.</p>
<p>Woke up from a good night&#8217;s sleep (futon convert!) to a traditional Japanese household breakfast!<br />
It looks like it&#8217;s taken straight from an anime scene huh =DD Chi-san&#8217;s mom asked if we wanted japanese or english breakfast the night before and Yisha and I both shouted &#8220;JAPANESE PLEASE!&#8221; =DD</p>
<p>breakfast cooked by Chi-san&#8217;s grandma. Pan fried salmon, potato and egg salad, rice and miso soup. oishii!! The salmon was awesome =) That white packet is actually Natto, which was really gross lol<br />
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<p>After breakfast, we packed up and LUGGED our luggage to dump at Yokohama station.</p>
<p>Chi-san lives in a hilly region (like most of Japan) so we had to pull our luggage up and down hills and stairs&#8230;in the heat x.x This is an example of the kind of stairs that we had to carry our 10+kg luggage up and down (thank god it was down here and not up) and around in Japan<br />
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<p>Chi-san also brought us to visit the temple near her house, which was gorgeous!! Apparently the young monks living in the temple are actually very hip and cool =D</p>
<p>The temple grounds. Aoi sora^^<br />
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<p>Looking at these pictures, I can still hear the cicadas chirping, feel the warm summer breeze on my skin and sweat trickling down my forehead and the general stillness you get in hot summer afternoons. They  just scream NATSU.<br />
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<p>The Japanese zen temple. It was so quiet and serene.<br />
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<p>I love Japanese zen temples, the architecture and colours are so simple and elegant, unlike the flashy gaudy chinese temples.<br />
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<p>These are sheltered passageways that bring the monks to different parts of the temples. The monks walk on the elevated platforms because they are not supposed to touch the ground barefooted.<br />
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<p>We met a young monk and an old monk here and asked them if we could take a picture with them and the young one was all &#8220;yes =DD&#8221; but the old monk refused (lol geezer) XDD But I like it that the younger generation are still following tradition (they have a temple university) but they are less uptight and rigid =)</p>
<p>More temple ground. It&#8217;s huge, by neighborhood temple standards. There are at least 3 big buildings and lots of wide open spaces with trees.</p>
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<p>After that we walked to Chi-san&#8217;s neighborhood train station (how I survived with all my luggage is still a mystery. The human spirit is a strong thing) to take the train to Yokohama. Dumped our luggage there and it&#8217;s off to Yokohama&#8217;s famous Chinatown for lunch!</p>
<p>Heading to chinatown and passed by this lovely shopping street. Another pretty bread shop (excuse the blurred pic, I was catching up to Yisha and Chi-san ^^)<br />
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<p>Chinatown! (lol @ the panda)<br />
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<p>Well honestly, chinatown is more like a place for Japanese tourists.  For us chinese, it&#8217;s overpriced(compared to Singapore and China) and not as interesting as other Japanese stuff because it&#8217;s nothing new to us. Still they have some pretty cool items.  I think Yisha bought a few boxes of instant Siew Mai or something. lol. Did you ever eat it??</p>
<p>Snack. It&#8217;s pan friend bao. Delicious!<br />
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<p>Lunch at a small chinese restaurant =) The food was great and Chi-san treated us to lunch, I feel so bad for mooching off her x.x Thanks Chizuru-san for your generous hospitality! We had an awesome time ^^</p>
<p>Green&#8230;fried rice. Despite it looking like alien goo this dish was bloody good!<br />
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<p>Chinese stir fry<br />
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<p>There was also a bunch of other dishes but I can&#8217;t find the photos. lol</p>
<p>After leaving chinatown, we went to the Yokohama bay area. Our ultimate goal was the ferris wheel ^^ A Honey and Clover fan would understand why we were so bent on sitting the ferris wheel. Actually it was just Yisha&#8217;s personal obsession, I just wanted to sit it because it&#8217;s gorgeous =D</p>
<p>Yokohama park by the sea<br />
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<p>Big ships<br />
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<p>That long building at the end is the Yokohama passenger terminal. Kinda like Harbour Front? But much bigger<br />
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<p>View of Yokohama&#8217;s city. It reminds me a lot of the Raffles Place area<br />
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<p>Close up. Can you spot the ferris wheel? ^^<br />
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<p>Drinking Fountain!<br />
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<p>I think these are cultural symbols representing Yokohama&#8230;?<br />
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<p>One of my favourite in Japan, convenience stores!! This is Lawson the best convenience chain in Japan (in my opinion) and this one is the Miffy version.<br />
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<p>More reasons why Japan is made of win:<br />
Epic Flavours!<br />
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<p>Everything has to look appetising<br />
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<p>Going up to the port/passenger terminal<br />
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<p>The passenger terminal itself! It&#8217;s built to look like the deck of a ship<br />
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<p>There are many grass patches on deck where you can sit/lie down and rest when the weather is good. Great dating spot!</p>
<p>From the passenger terminal we walked to where the red brick buildings were. I think back in the old days these brick buildings were used as warehouses. They have since been converted into exhibition places. Chi-san brought us there for a digital media exhibition ^^</p>
<p>Pretty buildings<br />
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<p>Behold! An ice cream fair at the brick houses.<br />
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<p>They sell the funkiest ice cream&#8230;</p>
<p>Space ice cream for astronauts<br />
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<p>Curry ice cream!<br />
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<p>Shark ice cream!<br />
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<p>Horse ice cream&#8230;?<br />
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<p>Caviar ice cream =0<br />
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<p>Squid ice cream<br />
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<p>&#8230;Snake ice cream<br />
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<p>in the end Yisha bought this lovely ice cream from an Obaa-san. She shaped it to look like a rose!<br />
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<p>Close up<br />
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<p>Best Kakigori I&#8217;ve had in Japan!<br />
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<p>Inside the exhibition there were a bunch of weird fun techy devices that only Japan can come up with. I have videos but I&#8217;m too lazy to upload them =D</p>
<p>This was really cool. If you place your hand on the metal bar, the device will produce musical sounds when you hit any part of your body. I think it works using the electrical signals in the human body.<br />
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<p>Paint splattering machine&#8230;well a quick way to do abstract art =D<br />
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<p>No idea what this is but I like the umbrella<br />
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<p><a href="http://s124.photobucket.com/albums/p34/sporkskitate/?action=view&amp;current=n525132483_1446389_4684.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p34/sporkskitate/n525132483_1446389_4684.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" width="350" height="261" /></a></p>
<p>Posters showing the animation shorts being screened<br />
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<p>And this! was the most fun of all the exhibitions<br />
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<p>*quote from yisha*<br />
<em>&#8220;((: this was ridiculously awesome and fun. they made us write stuff with light sticks and captured all of it in low-speed photography (i think)!&#8221;</em></p>
<p>I know I have the photograph of our lights somewhere (we wrote YOKOHAMA) but I can&#8217;t find it x.x</p>
<p>Anyway after passing time at this exhibit, the sky finally grew dark enough for the ferris wheel to be viewed in all it&#8217;s awesome glory. And trust me it was indeed awesome!!</p>
<p>Tada! The gorgeous Yokohama Ferris Wheel. Time check!<br />
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<p>Why is our Singapore flyer so dark and fugly and not lighted up in beautiful rainbow lights!!!</p>
<p>Yisha and Chi-san<br />
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<p>Into the amusement park!<br />
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<p>The ride costs about $10 per person and lasts about 15mins? or 20. From the peak of the wheel, you can see Yokohama city in all it&#8217;s lighted beauty =) Unfortunately Yisha&#8217;s night photography skill wasn&#8217;t l33t enough so we don&#8217;t have any photos of the night scene (do we?)</p>
<p>From here on only rambles and gushes.</p>
<p>After the ride, Chi-san asked if we wanted to visit the ONSEN (aka hot springs)! Since we were both high on adventure and happiness (ferris wheel rides does that to you) we agreed readily. I have nothing but praise for the hot springs. It&#8217;s like a luxury spa club but 10x better.</p>
<p>I took these pictures from the internet so credits go to whoever that took these photos!</p>
<p>This is the front desk =) It cost about 20+ odd (sgd) to enter, and Chi-san paid again x.x We definitely have to repay her kindness! <em></em></p>
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<em>(this picture was taken from http://www.welcome.city.yokohama.jp/eng/tourism/topics/0811/index.html)</em></p>
<p>No photography allowed inside (duh) but male and female hot spring areas are separated (double duh).<br />
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<p>Random fact: if you have a tattoo you can&#8217;t enter ^^ Most public areas in Japan don&#8217;t allow people with tattoos to enter because tattoos are still largely an indication of Yakuza.</p>
<p>Once inside, you get an ID tag (you just let them scan it when buying stuff. payment is made when you leave) Yukata of your choice and then you go to the locker room where you strip naked. Only a tiny towel is allowed inside the hot spring baths x.x It was really embarrassing for us at first but we were still high on ferris wheel happiness so we got over it =D Anyway once you get used to the view it&#8217;s all a bunch of bodies wandering about. Nothing too special. The whole place was very clean and hotel like. They have indoor baths and outdoor baths areas, and sauna rooms.</p>
<p>Nothing I type can describe the feeling of tight muscles from days of walking relaxing in the hot water -floats to heaven- some spas have water jets to massage your body too *_* And from the outdoor baths, you can see the city lights in all it&#8217;s splendor, but it&#8217;s not advisable to stay too close to the railings as someone might see you naked. lol. Chi-san told us that in winter it&#8217;s paradise to sit in the hot hot baths and watch the snowflakes flutter down gently while drinking hot sake!</p>
<p>And apparently Onsen water is very very good for the skin (that&#8217;s why all the Japanese have such good skin).Our faces and body felt much smoother after the soak! After the baths, we wrapped ourselves up in the yukata and went to the outdoor foot bath.</p>
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<em>(this picture was taken from http://www.kanagawa-kankou.or.jp/korean/area/images/yokohama_central_05.jpg)</em></p>
<p>It&#8217;s really at night when the beauty of the whole atmosphere comes alive. Relaxing your tired feet in the warm water, feeling the summer night breeze caressing your face, muscles relaxed and languid while gazing up at the ever changing lights of the Ferris Wheel.</p>
<p>For meals they have this big room covered with tatami mats. We bought our food and ohh it was so good to just stretch on the tatami and enjoy the aircon and hot green tea. I ate healthy rice and salad XD I felt the need to not put on more calories after supposedly burning them in the sauna and hot water.</p>
<p>Chi-san asked if we wanted to stay the night (just pay $12sgd more!) and we were soooo tempted to do it. But we&#8217;ve already bought the tickets. Well we could have canceled them and then take the first Shinkansen in the morning because the Japan Rail Pass covers the charges anyway but we didn&#8217;t. BIG MISTAKE.</p>
<p>Why? Because firstly, we didn&#8217;t get a good sleep at all that night on the train. It was so bloody noisy and it kept stopping and the lights didn;&#8221;t go off. Secondly, we had to transfer 3 times, with our huge ass luggage. Thirdly, we soon found out that the Shinkansen is the possibly the best transport invention in history. It&#8217;s extremely fast, 2hours from Tokyo to Kyoto as opposed to one whole night on a normal train with 3 transfers, very spacious! and very very good to sleep in.</p>
<p>Luckily, thanks to our meticulous research and planning, we arrived in Kyoto safely despite all the transfers^^ I&#8217;m so proud of myself. We didn&#8217;t get lost at all.</p>
<p>To end off day 4, I&#8217;ll talk about how much I like Yokohama. Even though we only spent a day in this city, we felt so very at home here. Perhaps it was due to Chizuru and her family&#8217;s warm hospitality, or probably also because Yokohama felt very much like Singapore. It&#8217;s a big city, but not too fast paced or distant like Tokyo. And also because the Yokohama bay area gives me the feeling of Raffles Place and Harbour Front! And the Onsen was the best unplanned trip that we had &lt;3 Not to mention the prices are surprisingly reasonable! 30+ sgd for all that awesome facilities. Heck you pay that amount for a chalet and you don&#8217;t even get a clean bathroom -_-&#8221;</p>
<p>End of Day 4</p>
<p>Coming up next, a Night Train Special!</p>
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		<title>Day 3: Akihabara to Yokohama</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has almost given up (BUT NOT QUITE) getting Yisha&#8217;s share of the photos (those not on facebook -gimme photos!) I desperately want to blog about the korean hottie and disneyland, but all good things have to come last =D Day 3! Akihabara for the inner geeks! Big, Spacious and CLEAN Maid Cafe advertisment THE Akihabara! [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=japanikun2008.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4541559&amp;post=15&amp;subd=japanikun2008&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has almost given up (BUT NOT QUITE) getting Yisha&#8217;s share of the photos (those not on facebook -gimme photos!) I desperately want to blog about the korean hottie and disneyland, but all good things have to come last =D</p>
<p>Day 3! Akihabara for the inner geeks!<br />
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<p>Big, Spacious and CLEAN<br />
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<p>Maid Cafe advertisment<br />
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<p>THE Akihabara!<br />
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<p>First Stop!<br />
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<p>We arrived early and waited almost 1/2 hour for the Tokyo Anime Center to open, on an EMPTY STOMACH.  And I wonder why I lost so much weight in Japan&#8230;</p>
<p>What better way to kill time? Playing with toilets ^^<br />
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<p>They have even more choices here at high tech akihabara. Loved the &#8220;flushing sound&#8221; option =D<br />
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<p>Lots of pervy looking guys queuing up for some sort of sexy girl&#8217;s autograph/merchandise<br />
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<p>Awesome full length Soul Eater posters =D<br />
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<p>Finally the store opens! -rushes in-<br />
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<p>Funky Stuff. Animation film roll I think<br />
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<p>Storyboards<br />
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<p>LOL?<br />
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<p>Reborn&#8217;s all the rage!<br />
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<p>Pikachuuu<br />
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<p>Off to lunch after Tokyo Anime Center! I still think we were rather stingy on food, but that leaves us with more money for other stuff like SHOPPING.</p>
<p>All the way to Japan to eat&#8230;<br />
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<p>Cosy place, smart layout. Chef has access to every customer<br />
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<p>Can&#8217;t say for sure if Yoshinoya Japan has better food than Singapore. We were so hungry that everything tasted incredible.</p>
<p>Vampire Knight, the next rage.<br />
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<p>All inhabitants of Akihabara must possess the Akiba factor<br />
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<p>An entire building of arcade games! We played the real Taiko no Tatsujin here ^^ Epic!<br />
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<p>It&#8217;s not Japan without any of these =D<br />
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<p>These are the reasons why Japan is made of win ^_^ I must have spent a fortune on vending machines<br />
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<p>Udon in a cup!<br />
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<p>Lol~<br />
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<p>Penguins living in the middle of a busy street. Nothing&#8217;s too absurd in Japan.<br />
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<p>Off to Animate to hunt for Jing&#8217;s (hentai) doujins!<br />
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<p>No photography allowed so no piccies =(<br />
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<p>Animate&#8217;s overrated, honestly. It&#8217;s cramped and rather small. But it has all the latest rage&#8217;s merchandise&#8230;(and Jing&#8217;s hentai doujins) prepare for&#8230;</p>
<p>Reborn pasta!<br />
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<p>Reborn cookies!<br />
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<p>More Reborn Cookies!<br />
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<p>And some Evangelion curry. Eat it and be a wussy emo!<br />
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<p>I must say it was incredibly fun spending Jing&#8217;s money. You don&#8217;t feel your heart aching with every note used =D I just grabbed all the Toho and Rozen Maiden doujins that I saw and paid for them, with male otakus staring at Yisha and I like we were crazy.<br />
Japanese otakus : Gasp girls! Real girls! I&#8217;ve never seen real girls! -hyperventilates-</p>
<p>We wanted to go down to the &#8220;18 and above only&#8221; basement (guess what&#8217;s in there) but we chickened out =(</p>
<p>We then spent the whole day hunting for headphones. -falls in love with akihabara- Headphones paradise! They have at least 30 different models for you to test. I bought the Buttons series from Audio Technica. Design &gt; Sound anytime! Sold for 70+ SGD in Singapore and I bought it for 40 SGD in Japan ^^</p>
<p>Bought my friends some funky souvenirs (including the humping dog usb for my brother) and we left for Yokohama</p>
<p>Goodbye for now Akihabara!<br />
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<p>Gorgeous sunset. It rained shortly after<br />
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<p>Evening, we left Tokyo for Yokohama via the subway that took us 45 minutes. Chizuru-san was so kind to offer us a night&#8217;s accommodation at her house. One main reason why free and easy rocks, you get to stay with the locals ^^ She picked us up at Yokohama (the name of which station eludes me to this day) and we dumped our luggage in one of their lockers. And then off we go to visit the much anticipated Ramen Musuem!! (aka ramen amusement park)</p>
<p>A must visit for anyone travelling to Yokohama. Heck&#8230;Yokohama&#8217;s a must visit for anyone travelling to Tokyo. The whole museum is designed to look as if it&#8217;s a sunset evening in the 1960s. Stepping into the museum brings a wave of nostalgia (from where I have no idea since I can&#8217;t possibly have any memories of 1960s Japan. lol) Gorgeous old school paintings, beautifully crafted architecture and props, beautiful lighting. The entrance fee was only $5 sgd.</p>
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<p>Another attractive feature of the Ramen Museum is the ramen stalls. Famous stalls from all over Japan come here to sell. They&#8217;ve all gone through stringent quality checks! Our aim was to try all the ramen from the different stalls. Each stalls sell different types of Ramen. We started off at&#8230;<br />
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<p>And ended there&#8230;lol. The ramen was awesome, albeit really oily, but we couldn&#8217;t eat another bowl of ramen after that, unfortunately.</p>
<p>The awesome ticketing machines.<br />
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<p>and hey! you actually get what you see on the pictures!<br />
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<p>Stores selling ice cream<br />
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<p>Lighting is kinda odd here, but this is an example of the small alleys you see in the museum. Incredibly well themed!<br />
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<p>Old school candy shop!! We stayed here for at least an hour and bought lots of fun candy =D<br />
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<p>After dinner we were almost done for the day so back to Chizuru&#8217;s house. No pictures of Chizuru&#8217;s apartment ^^ But it&#8217;s very quaint and cosy, and you can see the Yokohama ferris wheel from her balcony. And something that I&#8217;ve always wanted to see for myself. The typical Japanese bathroom!<br />
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<p>Chatted with her parents, who were such kind and friendly folks -hearts- And then we went to sleep ^^ That night, I became a futon convert. -worships futons-</p>
<p>-End of Day 3-</p>
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		<title>Japan Trip Day 2! : Todai, Ueno Park and Asakusa Fireworks Festival</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Yisha has finally and very kindly uploaded some of her photos &#60;3 Blogging about Japan Trip 2008 continues, with a rather rusty memory. After a good night&#8217;s sleep, we woke up and headed out for Todai! Bunch of nerds we are that we just have to pop by the elite school for elites, Tokyo [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=japanikun2008.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4541559&amp;post=10&amp;subd=japanikun2008&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Yisha has finally and very kindly uploaded some of her photos &lt;3 Blogging about Japan Trip 2008 continues, with a rather rusty memory.</p>
<p>After a good night&#8217;s sleep, we woke up and headed out for Todai! Bunch of nerds we are that we just have to pop by the elite school for elites, Tokyo University! Breakfast: Nothing! Can&#8217;t believe we went out without eating anything. WHY!?</p>
<p>I love how gorgeous everything in Japan looks, even bread shops.<br />
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<p>On board the bus to Todai from Ueno Station. I think we WALKED from Asakusa to Ueno Station, on an empty stomach.<br />
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<p>Finally Todai! Wandered in search of the famous Akamon, the grand entrance to Tokyo University. <a href="http://s124.photobucket.com/albums/p34/sporkskitate/?action=view&amp;current=n525132483_1445255_1584.jpg" target="_blank"><br />
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<p>Soaking in the aura of Japan&#8217;s Elites! I think it was their Summer break though, the campus was rather empty.<br />
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<p>Gorgeous old buildings in campus<br />
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<p>Archery club!! We hid behind the bushes to take this pic =D<br />
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<p>Outside Todai =) Imagine this walkway during Spring, Autumn, Winter&#8230;an endless stretch of path covered with flowering cherry blossoms overhead, or autumn leaves in vivid colours&#8230; I hate summer!<br />
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<p>Finally..LUNCH! Walked up and down this row of expensive shops wondering how in the world students afford these prices.</p>
<p>Even their alleyway look nice =D<br />
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<p>Did we lose our way wandering the little streets before or after lunch? I think it was before&#8230;<br />
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<p>An entire room filled with vending machines!!<br />
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<p>Yisha and Si Ying were introduced to NATTCHAN! The cutest drink mascot thing everrr<br />
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<p>Finally&#8230;lunch at a quaint little cafe. Japan&#8217;s filled with gorgeous shops.<br />
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<p>My rather cheap and absolutely delicious lunch! Rice on a plate, with steak patty and soup and 2 croquettes and salad and a drink&#8230;for less than s$10 &#8211; in love with Japan- Yisha ordered some sort of steak patty too.<br />
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<p>After refueling, we decided we had tons of energy to torture ourselves and decided to WALK to Ueno Station.</p>
<p>Note the red line, that was sort of the route that we took. That includes tons of uphill climbs, sometimes with staircases!<br />
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<p>Part of the walk included going through Ueno Park, which was really lovely.<br />
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<p>Flowers seen throughout Japan during summer<br />
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<p>Turtles!<br />
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<p>Tea Shop!!<br />
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<p>You write your wishes and hang them here. For a bit of money of course.<br />
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<p>Creepy pond-forest-football sized field full of water lilies with eerie &#8220;singing&#8221; music<br />
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<p>Rumour states that if a couple row a boat together in this lake, they&#8217;ll break up shortly after. Spot the couple!<br />
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<p>Birds<br />
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<p>Pretty flowers<br />
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<p>Yukata wearing folks<br />
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<p>Preparation for the summer festival at night!<br />
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<p>Ice cream vending machines are &lt;33<br />
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<p>The trees that line this walkway are sakura trees. Incredibly beautiful during spring, so I presume.<br />
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<p>Shrines~!<br />
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<p>We finally reached Ueno Station after a long long trek. Then it&#8217;s off to Uniglo to buy Yukatas! For our first ever Hanabi Taikai! (Fireworks festivals).</p>
<p>Uniglo receipt XD<br />
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<p>Our pass! Only people staying in hostels around the Asakusa area have this pass. It allowed us to wander freely into residential areas that were blocked by the police.<br />
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<p>Anime fans would have seen tons of festival scenes, especially in Shoujo Manga. It&#8217;s the perfect dating festival. What can be more romantic than playing festival games, eating festival food and watching the fireworks together with your beloved! Unfortunately Yisha only had me for company, and vice versa XD But we still had an awesome time dressing up, wandering the streets, fretting about views, queuing up for shaved ice etc</p>
<p>Finally all dressed up for the festival! Me and Yisha<br />
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<p>Yisha!</p>
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<p>The annual Asakusa Fireworks Festival takes place during the last Saturday of July. We purposely planned our trip so that we could catch the festival. It&#8217;s the biggest fireworks festival in Japan, and dates back to a long long time ago. Today, the festival is a face off between 2 fireworks companies! So there are 2 fireworks displays going off simultaneously at 2 ends of the bridge.</p>
<p>Smiley face fireworks<br />
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<p>More fireworks<br />
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<p>There was a large crowd, but amazingly enough, nobody pushed and everyone was extremely orderly! Something you still can&#8217;t see in Singapore. We didn&#8217;t get a perfect view of the fireworks, and had to stand for about 2 hours, but it was really cool being part of the Japanese society for a while. We wandered around the touristy areas after that and even got mistaken for being Japanese by 2 Caucasians in our yukata getup! It was hilarious and rather flattering.</p>
<p>And then we just had to get cheated -_- We passed by this picture thing where we get instant photographs of us sitting on this fancy carriage. It&#8217;s like s gimmick for couples though, we were the only non-couples in the queue. Japan&#8217;s filled with couples! Anyway we were so hyped up and excited until we saw the photos. What I scanned in here is what it is really like! It&#8217;s all blurred up and horrible -_- CHEATED! Funny we didn&#8217;t see anyone else complain about the quality of the photos.<br />
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<p>End of Day 2 =)</p>
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		<title>First Day at Tokyo: Asakusa</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[And finally! We reach Tokyo Narita airport! Super tired but really excited! Behold! Japan Rail Pass! Unlimited travel on all JR lines. Narita Airport where we&#8217;ll be taking a train to Tokyo Vending machines! I *heart* Japanese vending machines. On board the Narita Express to Tokyo! Japan in summer. Lush greenery and clear blue skies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=japanikun2008.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4541559&amp;post=5&amp;subd=japanikun2008&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And finally! We reach Tokyo Narita airport! Super tired but really excited!</p>
<p>Behold! Japan Rail Pass! Unlimited travel on all JR lines.<br />
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<p>Narita Airport where we&#8217;ll be taking a train to Tokyo<br />
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<p>Vending machines! I *heart* Japanese vending machines.<br />
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<p>On board the Narita Express to Tokyo!<br />
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<p>Japan in summer. Lush greenery and clear blue skies =) Of course only to be enjoyed in an air conditioned room.<br />
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<p>Speeding past the countryside<br />
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<p>Lol. Love their posters and advertisements. Please do it at home!<br />
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<p>Arriving at Ueno station, where we&#8217;ll have to pay 160 yen -_- to transfer to Asakusa. So much for money saving JR pass T_T The Stairs!!! Horrible stairs!<br />
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<p>160 yen!!!<br />
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<p>Our subway ticket. 160 Yen!!<br />
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<p>Random stamps ^^<br />
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<p>Stupid money cheating Ginza line&#8230;Asakusa station doesn&#8217;t have escalators or lifts!! We had to lug our 10kg ++ luggage up and down stairs. TORTURE!</p>
<p>Tokyo metro trains</p>
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<p>We arrived too early. Check in was at 3pm so we had to wander around Asakusa. Hot hot hot sweaty and tired T_T</p>
<p>River!<br />
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<p>This would be really nice if it wasn&#8217;t so hot.<br />
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<p>Random dustbin shot. Their dustbins are separated into combustible, non combustible, bottles, cans, pet bottles, humanspetselectronicsgaijinotakumanganimericeballsramenudonallsortsofcrap and of course&#8230;others.<br />
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<p>Since we had a lot of time, we went to &#8230;Kaminarimon! A famous site of Asakusa. This is just the start. Lol bad photo taking skills&#8230;<br />
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<p>Then you walk through this street selling all sorts of (cheat tourists money) stuff which are really interesting for tourists like us. Look at all those tourists <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">being cheated </span>buying stuff =D<br />
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<p>Fancy looking taiyaki making machine<br />
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<p>Yay Japan!<br />
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<p>LOL<br />
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<p>And I bought senbei! And regretted it. It tasted like a mixture of bitterness, charcoal, nothing and horridness&#8230;<br />
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<p>And finally, we reached the main temple. It&#8217;s really nice and grand&#8230;and crowded.<br />
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<p>Good luck good luck!<br />
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<p>Is this good luck?<br />
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<p>Kakaka I didn&#8217;t donate but I hope I get good luck!<br />
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<p>Crap! Bad luck!! So you tie your bad luck fortune to this thing and hope it&#8217;ll go away. Something like that =D<br />
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<p>Both me and Yisha got bad luck at first XDD Then we donated 100yen and we got good luck =)</p>
<p>The first out of a billion times we&#8217;re going to wash our hands and mouth in a shrine in Japan.<br />
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<p>Really nice though.<br />
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<p>Intricate carvings<br />
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<p>The rest of the temple grounds. If only we had such lovely gardens.<br />
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<p>After Kaminarimon, we left to wander the rest of Asakusa in search for lunch.</p>
<p>And passed by&#8230;Mos Burger!<br />
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<p>Delicious looking Konbini stuff.<br />
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<p>Finally! A cheap food place. This is found in almost every cheap food shop in Japan. You decide what u want at the ticketing machine, press a button, put comes a ticket and u hand it to the staff. Hassle free, menu free, idiot and gaijin proof =D<br />
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<p>Some even have pictures!<br />
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<p>And before lunch, I went to their Super Toilet! I got so excited seeing this lol.<br />
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<p>My Cold Soba. Delicious! It came with thick chunky fried pork &lt;33<br />
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<p>Yisha&#8217;s thick chunky fried pork curry.<br />
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<p>More wanderings after lunch. Cigarette vending machines. Found at every corner.<br />
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<p>Japan has the coolest phones in the whole wide world.<br />
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<p>And by now we&#8217;re dying from the heat. Luckily we spotted a Kakigori shop! Kakigori! It saved our lives everyday in Japan.</p>
<p>Quaint little kakigori shop. The owner is this cute little obaa-san who was really friendly.<br />
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<p>Shaved Ice!! It doesn&#8217;t look like much, but it&#8217;s heaven in the heat. And it&#8217;s not entirely sweet either. Slightly sourish and really refreshing.<br />
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<p>Only in Japan do u see such things!<br />
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<p>3pm! Check in, bathe, and out to meet Chizuru, Saki and Sachiko! Yisha met them when they went to Canada for exchange. They&#8217;re really really nice and so great to be with!</p>
<p>Took Purikuras! A must do when you&#8217;re in Japan. Really cheap too! Only 400yen =DD<br />
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<p>We went to Shibuya, walked by Harajuku and&#8230;.ate crepes! The famous Harajuku Crepes!<br />
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<p>Went for dinner at an Okonomiyaki place at Shibuya. They treated us ( *_* they were so nice!) and it was really fun! Wish we had this in Singapore. Maybe we should open one lol. The food was really good and the price was reasonable too, seeing it being smacked right in the middle of Shibuya.</p>
<p>Hot plate<br />
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<p>Dump your food onto the hot plate~<br />
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<p>Mochi pancake thing<br />
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<p>Yum Yum<br />
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<p>Then we went for Karaoke! Another must do when you&#8217;re in Japan. Pretty expensive, but I think they have more packages.</p>
<p>Free flow of drinks! Oh their vending machines are amazing.<br />
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<p>Delicious milk tea~<br />
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<p>Our little karaoke room<br />
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<p>You use this to select songs<br />
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<p>Chizuru is a fantastic singer!<br />
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<p>It was really fun! Yisha and I sang Arashi&#8217;s Love so Sweet and Hey Say Jump&#8217;s Ultra Music Power. Hoho. We stumbled a lot but could sing parts of the songs =) Yay for Hiragana training.</p>
<p>Thus ends our first day at Tokyo. Thanks a lot to Chizuru, Saki and Sachiko for making our night so fun =)</p>
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		<title>Hello world! Singapore &gt; Bangkok &gt; Narita</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the airport! After months of planning, amid earthquakes and random stabbing incidents! Yisha and Si Ying finally got to go to Japan! Met Yisha at the airport! Dearest Tomodachi! It was a really great trip even though there were times when we felt like killing each other XDD Thanks for being around throughout the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=japanikun2008.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4541559&amp;post=1&amp;subd=japanikun2008&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At the airport! After months of planning, amid earthquakes and random stabbing incidents! Yisha and Si Ying finally got to go to Japan!</p>
<p>Met Yisha at the airport! Dearest Tomodachi! It was a really great trip even though there were times when we felt like killing each other XDD Thanks for being around throughout the 14 days! (Not like you have any other choices loll)</p>
<p>Cheesuu<br />
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<p>Meet Yisha&#8217;s Super Cam! Canon G9 (?)<br />
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<p>Super Changi Airport! The best airport in the whole world &lt;3 Free leg massage.<br />
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<p>Bye bye Singapore!! I love taking planes! The feeling of being in an enclosed space with lots of people and nothing around u outside the plane is really comforting XD I love turbulence too! loll<br />
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<p>Airline food<br />
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<p>We were really surprised that they served us a meal when it&#8217;s only a 2 hour flight. Yay Thai Airways &lt;3!!</p>
<p>Hello Thailand!!<br />
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<p>Transiting at Thailand where we will spend the next 5 hours.<br />
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<p>Funky ice cream~<br />
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<p>Going through our timetable and calculating finance at a cafe.<br />
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<p>Random cool shot =D<br />
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<p>Midnight flight from Bangkok to Narita for the next 6 hours. We got a great plane! There&#8217;s TV for everyone yeah! I slept but Yisha watched The Bucket List. (and kept me awake with her crying lol)</p>
<p>Yay TV</p>
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<p>We got window seats again ^^</p>
<p>Sometime in the night, I woke up and looked outside the window and saw a million stars beside me. Wanted to Wake Yisha up but decided not too. Turns out she wasn&#8217;t sleeping lol.</p>
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