I’M BACK FROM JAPAN (:
i just woke up after coming home from a morning flight. (: unpacking my stuff now. i’ve bought a heck ons of hings and experienced many things. let me see whether i can sum it up.
DAY 1
we arrived at the narita airport. we had to meet my brother’s girlfriend at shinjuku, so we bought some onigiri and drinks and took the Narita Express straight to shinjuku. our hotel was at ikebukuro. we met xiao hui and we all went to ikebukuro to check in. the uncles there was really nice. (: and then i started to find out how 7 years of anime, manga, drama and idolship in japanese can do to you lol. i was able to communicate with the uncles. XDD
so we got our room number, 509, and headed up. me, my brother and qarissa were staying there. xiaohui and her brother had to go back to xiaohui’s place to sleep. we dropped our luggage in the room and decided to go walk around ikebukuro.
omg, ikebukuro has almost everything you need XD. theres an ANIMATE. 9 floors of anime goodness. MANY doujin and other anime stores, convenience stores, electronics, etc etc.
and then you know what? i saw matsujun… in ikebukuro.
D8
then we went to have tonkotsu ramen for dinner. and headed back to the hotel to rest for the night. (:
DAY 2
we went to akihabara! if i’m not wrong, we ate mcdonalds for breakfast that morning XD there was so many things to look at. and whats more was that on this day that we went, WAS THE DAY OF THE SALE FOR FINAL FANTASY 13. XD EVERYWHERE, literally everywhere was filled with the ff13’s theme song and posters.
i was minding my money abit since it was only the second day, so i didn’t buy as much as i wanted to. miku doll ):.
then we headed to harajuku.
we were supposed to meet xiao hui at harajuku, but she was running late. so we decided to visit the meiji shrine (:


let me tell you, you might think that the birds in anime were exaggerated to the extent that they crow really loudly, but it’s not true. THEY DO CROW REALLY LOUDLY AND SOUND LIKE THEY ARE SAYING “AHO” just like in naruto. D:
we went in to meiji shrine quite late, but we managed to get there to see and i bought some charms to bring home (: i think the temperature then was probably 7 degrees or something.
xiaohui still wasn’t there yet when we went out. so we waited at the harajuku bridge (yes the one that has jrock cosplayers every weekend) and then decided to enter the streets first.
i really wanted to buy so much clothing. ): but i was scared of losing all my money lol. we had crepe. which was the best thing i’ve ever tasted. ):
when you say strawberry cheesecake, they literally put a whole cheesecake into the crepe. D: it was so good.
we were at takeshita dori for awhile and we walked out and who do i find. XD

Hard to see, but yes it’s arashi. XD qarissa has clearer photos because she brought her bro’s epic cam. this pictures are all from my phone at the moment. XD sad to say, i can’t remember where we ate dinner at. ):
DAY3
we went to look at more shrines and stuff.


after this, we wanted to fo to this bamboo shrine that looked really gorgeous on the brochure. D: but we didn’t know how to get there so we walked wih a map.
we walked for a kilometre before reaching the area. we reached the place at 4.15pm. then we saw the place and it said.
“CLOSED AT 4PM.”
._. both my mind and my handphone died.
we were so tired lol. so we took a bus back. japan buses are so confusing. you slot the 100 yen in somewhere else. should have just used my suica. thats like an exlink we use there to travel on trains and stuff. travel fare is bloody expensive ):
we were very close to the sea, so it was freezing cold. the degrees were probably in the minus D: and then we stopped infront of a curryrice restaurant. we didn’t know whether to go in when all of a sudden, this japanese lady came up to us and said.
“これがおいしいよ!” (this place is really good!) then she said something abou how she always walks past this place bu since it was cold, she went in and then she said the curry rice was really nice.
then she asked us whether we all were japanese or not lol. xiaohui said she was a transfer student and the lady thought all of us were. XD in the end, we had really yummy curry rice. <3
we walked around the streets as the shops were closing, and we managed to shop at an NHK character shop (DOMOKUN!) and a studio ghibili shop just right next to it. qarissa bought some stuff there. she and her cats D:
DAY 4
WE WENT TO JUMP FESTA. BUT MY CAMERA DIED. ): SO LETS JUST WAIT FOR QARISSA TO UPLOAD HER PHOTOS AND SEND THEM TO ME AND I’LL DO A PROPER POST ON IT BECAUSE THE EVEN WAS TOO AWESOME FOR JUST THE SUMMARY ALONE. XD
i’ll stop here for now and prob continue the rest of the trip later on in the day. tired lol.
i’ll do another post on disney land to.. well, to put it in a summary, just watched this video of the best ride we took on that day. the tower of terror.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7RnLVv8GcM
it’s a 90degree vertical drop in a lift. they tell you the story as you go up. and then BOOM. all of a sudden you are looking down on the whole of disney land from far up. they don’t give you any time to think and drop you down, go back up and drop you down again MANY TIMES.
best ride i took in my life. i think qarissa’s too lol.
the story was about an old geezer who stole alot of monuments from different areas and the villagers put a curse on him. he opened up his new hotel but i think died in the lift because it snapped.
thus the whole 90degree in the lift thing.
don’t worry, i have photos of disneyland. XD i’ll post later on.
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