This ad has been playing on TV every night while I was in Japan. So mesmerizing, it almost brainwashed me to buy that junk food. Till now, the tune is still ringing in my head.
[Official website]
This ad has been playing on TV every night while I was in Japan. So mesmerizing, it almost brainwashed me to buy that junk food. Till now, the tune is still ringing in my head.
[Official website]
After Umeda Sky Building, I headed off to Minami, at the south of Osaka. They said Minami is the Akihabara for Osaka.
(The long stretch of shopping arcade underneath Namba)
From left:
1. Another fav of mine. Taiyaki with cream and chocoloate fillings
2. Some dancing fountain in the Namba Station shopping hall. I was enjoying the taiyaki there
3. They put up something [...]
Sheesh, I actually forgot to post the short trip to Osaka. My bad, my bad.
Osaka is about 20 minutes away from Kyoto via Shinkansen so I decided to take a one day trip to visit the industrious Osaka. That day was a gloomy day unfortunately; it drizzled for the entire day, restricting my choices of place [...]
A Japan trip will never be complete without some anime shopping. While weight was not an issue when I brought these goodies back, the available space on the baggage was total exhausted. With so much stuff to bring home, I was so desperate to seek every single inch I could salvage from any hand carry [...]
On the last day in Japan, I concluded the trip with a visit to Studio Ghibli Museum in Mitaka. It’s a must trip for any fans of Hayao Miyazaki where you can see all his works in real life.
(Studio Ghibli Museum main entrance)
Getting there from the hotel was a little far off. I had to switch two trains and the journey [...]
My mate and I decided to treat his cousin a good dinner as a gesture of gratitude for taking us around Tokyo. We let him to decide the restaurant and we had yakiniku for that night. A wonderful, appetising experience of BBQ-ing expensive beef slices.
(Thin slices of juicy sizzling beef)
From left:
1. Kimchi. A good way to open [...]
(With shops like these, I’ll be visiting every one of them)
The buildings and the decorations in Akihabara outmatched any other districts that I went. A very busy district filled with electronic and anime/mange otakus. Just the kind of place that I’ll dwell. I came here twice and twice I went back to hotel with bags of goodies. [...]
Again, this was an unexpected discovery. Zojoji Temple was only 10 minutes away from the Tokyo Tower after I followed some crowd. This was where I found out that the New Year was going to be celebrated here, 7 hours later.
(Zojoji Temple)
There was nothing to see during the day as the locals were busy preparing the stalls and set ups [...]
Tokyo Tower is around Roppongi, so I took a stroll to Tokyo Tower. It was New Year’s eve that day so I thought we go and celebrate year 2008 there. Turned out the stroll became a 45 minutes walk. Ugh.
(The famous Paris Tower look-a-like)
I didn’t go to top of the Tokyo Tower. Initially I planned [...]
I didn’t explore much around Roppongi. It was pretty dull around so I only hanged around at a shopping mall.
(A shopping mall in Roppongi)
The outside
Inside the ‘food court’
From left:
1. Biscuits/Pastries for 3900yen
2. Steamed rice with different flavours.
3. Cakes, cakes, cakes
4. More cakes!
From left:
1. These are real spring roll. I thought it was for display only.
2. More confectionaries. They really [...]
(The missing corner credit card)
I used my credit card a couple of times when I travelled to Japan but this ordinary credit card returned back to me with unexpected yet an interesting feedback. This is what happened.
After some long thoughts, I have decided to purchase the Nikon DSLR at one of the biggest electronic store, [...]
Another trip during the evening and this time it’s Shinjuku. It was livelier than in the day, the buildings there were dressed up to blind you with a rainbow rays of colourful neon lights and huge LCD TVs.
(The city that never sleeps)
The facets of Shinjuku:
From left:
1. A random shot using my new DSLR
2. Illumination ‘circus’ as they call it
3. Bunch of happy penguins
From left:
1. [...]
(As usual, the crowd is killing)
From left:
1. One of many cinemas in Ikebukuro. I went one (Toho Cinema) to watch “I am Legend“ and it cost me 1800 yen a ticket. That’s almost twice as much I have to pay in Australia!
2. Some politician trying to make her point
3. The streets in Ikebukuro
4. Some performance in a large [...]
(My life is confused now)
Now I’m contemplating which journey of life should I attempt to.
‘Shibuyaaaaaaa, Shibuyaaaaaa’. My mate liked the female-voiced auto-station-announcer while we were in the JR Train. O_o’
(Ayumi Hamasaki is everywhere!)
The aggresive promotion drive for Ayumi Hamasaki’s new album Guilty was really overkilling. Posters, mobile signboards and promo music via a mobile trucks/vans were seen at every corner of Shibuya (as well as other districts that we’ve visited).
From left:
1. The crowds in [...]
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