Touched down at the Tokyo Narita Airport at 7AM plus. It was freezing (to me) and I had to open up my luggage to get the trench coat out. I can't stand the cold but still it was nice and chilly.
I think in Japan there are so many vending machines everywhere that every 100 metres you walk you can see one. And it's not those cheapo canned drinks like ours here but nicely bottled ones. I bought a total of 7 (or is it 8) bottles, one a day during my stay there. Will put up a picture soon. I hope. The pictures on the right is the market near my aunt's place in Bandobashi... it's clean and nice and everyone is basically friendly.
We happen to catch a parade too! It was some Golden Week celebration parade or what; these people came from very, very far away to Yokohama which was the last stop.
This is some temple we visited at Asakusa. It was during the Golden Week celebrations and it was bleeding crowded. The weather was sunny with the occasional strong gusts of chilly wind thus I had my coat on. To me it was cold but not to the extent that I will shiver and teeth will chatter kind. The temple was smoky with all the incense and smoke, and I tell you temples in Japan make good money. Want an amulet? Pay XXX Yen. Want to make a wish or offering? Pay XXX Yen. But the amulets are nicely packaged, everything speaks of
packagingpackagingpackaging in Japan.
The fucking complicated subway lines. More than 30 over lines to Tokyo alone if I'm not wrong... From where we stay at Bandobashi, we gotta take a subway to Yokohama, walk a distance and take more trains to Tokyo and everywhere else. And transport in Japan wipes you clean of your money. Starting rate for taxis is like, 680 Yen? About $7-8 Singapore dollars! A train ride to Tokyo is about 500-600 Yen? Can't remember, too long ago liao. =X
Mos Burger at the street near where we stay. The Mos Burger in Japan is different from that of Singapore. There, the fries in the set meals comes
with onion rings. And onion rings isn't like Burger King's. It's a real onion ring with some flour coating, only thing the onion can't be bitten into half that easily. Hurhur. And they serve drinks in glasses and cups! And their milk tea tastes nicer than Singapore's.
Cafes and teahouses are everywhere in Japan. This one called Afternoon Tea is tucked inside a shopping mall in Yokohama (there are about 4 or 5 malls there?). I ordered a Strawberry Shortcake(!) and my cousin got a Mont Blanc, which is a pretty famous cake in Japan made of yam and cream and spongecake and whatnot. Both cakes were yummy and expensive at about 6 or 7 Singapore dollars...
P/S: Photos pathetically edited using Picasa, Microsoft Powerpoint and Paint.
PP/S: PS means post script! :P
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