Rehtseeee.Blogspot! 私の世界。: 日本の日　Day 2. (Part II)

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Monday, April 26, 2010

Covers :

1) Lunch at Nakano
2) Ghibli Museum at Mitaka
3) Onsen at Odaima
4) Nightlife at Roppongi

We went to SO MANY PLACES in one day so this is probably the longest Part II to date!!

After our satisfactory buys, we headed for lunch just a few minutes walk away from Nakano Broadway. Weather was a bit unbearable for me because of my exposed legs. :P

Let me briefly explain the use of such lockers!

Basically, if you have a big group of people you're usually going to have your meals at some tatami-like corner. Which means you have to take off your shoes before you step inside the corner (it was very spacious but I want to use the word 'corner').

There are several types of Hiragana wooden blocks for you to choose, you may pick any one that you like. After you've safely put your shoes inside, you bring the wooden block with you. The locker is locked once you take it off the metal pocket. Cool?

I chose か, not because I especially liked that locker but my boots were hurting and I was carrying a bunch of figurines so I couldn't care less about my favourite Hiragana letter. My boots were one size smaller than my foot, so it hurts A LOT.

But no choice, for the sake of beauty. I have to sacrifice! During the trip, because of my exposed legs to the cold weather and my boots, they kept saying this sentence in chinese.

“爱美不要命。”

Of course! It's not that I get to go to Japan often.

Was actually sitting beside Aizen-sama but you can't see me because I was busy taking off my boots at the lockers! Extreme difficulty. I went like, "Har! Need to take off shoes again ah?!" when Tony asked everyone to put our shoes inside the lockers.

If you suddenly whip out a DSLR and snap at some chefs working inside the kitchen in Singapore, most probably they'll be "WTF ARE YOU DOING". That's not the case in Japan though, everyone is friendly and nice!

I know I've said that many times but I just have to.

Group picture taken from Ferlyn!

I had no idea Melissa was having twin ponytails that day until I came across this picture. We're done eating and we were outside waiting for people that's queuing for the toilet!

Cigarettes are called Tabacco in Japan, and machines for it are everywhere. I'm guessing a lot of Japanese smokes but their rules and regulations are different there.

The difference between us and them is that in Singapore, majority of the dining places bans smoking. But for Japan, it's not so be prepared to whiff some smoke here and there when you are dining. They hold their cigarettes while having their meals.

That's one thing I do not like. なぜなら?　タバコわ大嫌いだから。 (Why? Because I hate smoking/cigarettes)

I've never seen this direction board at all. Nicholas must have super sharp eyes. There are plenty of pictures that he took and I didn't have any of those at all. I guess I wasn't really looking because my mind was filled with figurines, figurines and MORE figurines.

With that said, we're off to Mitaka for Ghibli Museum! (Pictures can be found at TokyoAnitour's Facebook)

Oh something just triggered my memory! On Saturday when I was out with my Anitour friends, they were saying that the new exclusive Tokyo Anitour Photo Poster have some of our faces on it BUT MY FACE WAS THE BIGGEST AND THE MOST OBVIOUS ONE.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! They are jealous! =P

Will show you guys next week!

It's very hard to get tickets for Ghibli Museum and accepts only a certain number of visitors everyday. I don't know the reason why but what matters is that we got it. ^^

This is actually an entry ticket for a movie screening inside Ghibli Museum! Every ticket portray different scenes from different anime and since these pictures belongs to Jim, that's his ticket and his anime.

I couldn't remember mine.. but I brought it back! It's still in my gigantic anime goodie bag though, I unpacked my luggage but not my hand carry. And it's been more than a month since I'm back. HAHAHAHAHA!!

No more pictures for Ghibli Museum because no photography are allowed inside! So what we captured are only the exterior. It's really fascinating inside with all the anime like the famous Ponyo moving right in front of you!

Not through the scene, but right in front of me! It's a little bit tricky to explain so scratch that. What's important is that I'll remember it for life.

Honestly speaking I didn't really enjoy Ghibli Musuem as the rest because I've never watched Pongyo and the likes and there's no handsome guys in there! But I was amazed at the Ponyo production. It was all solely drawn by hand and the stacks and stacks of drawing for that movie...........was unbelievable.

Do you have that patience? Not me! It's UNCOUNTABLE.

After that we went for the famous onsen located at Odaima! It's another problem for me again because I'll need to remove my boots. Owww.

Looks like a happy place? Of course it is.

There's a total replica of Natsu Matsuri inside, with food, festival games and fortune telling in there! I didn't get to try. :(

And a large number of handsome guys in there, I'm not lying. It's freaking true! There are more handsome guys here than in Shibuya or Harajuku. All looked cute in their yukatas.

Jim filimg the footage with Ferlyn documenting it. No idea what I was looking at.

Okay so got it? If you love Japan and wants to try the onsen badly, yet dying to get a tattoo, think again. You WILL be denied entry.

But if you're thinking, "Oh! I'll just tattoo at some places which can't be seen" then think again one more time. You're going in NAKED. So the places "that can't be seen" will be seen. You can't hide anything in your body. Sad but true.

Yakuza looking sumo wrestler warning tattooed humans not to go in. Fear his wrath, feel the terror!

Same logic, there's a key with number stickers on it and you have to carry it with you after you put your belongings inside. It's hard to lose the key since it's made up of telephone cords and you'll be wearing it on your wrist.

Though Aizen-sama gave me a big scare when she thought she lost hers. -__-

This is an interesting process for me, because I like system like this! You get to choose your favourite yukata and your favourite colour of Obi (the one to tie your yukata with) before you go in. Males and Females have different designs of course.

I chose Number 14!

Doesn't this guy reminds you of Katekyo Hitman Reborn's recent Choice battle. The one Genkishi disguised himself as before he showed his face. Couldn't remember the name but it's this fellow all right.

And since I'm using Nicholas' pictures, OF COURSE THERE ARE PICTURES OF THEM WEARING YUKATAS MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Slim Master looking yakuza-ish at the camera.

And that's Jim looking to look like a Yakuza.

Actually on the other side, we girls also took a picture of us wearing yukata together! If I remember correctly my yukata was green. It's in Sherry's camera but she's currently in Australia so I can only get the picture earliest by next week!

Will definitely post it up because me myself is excited on how we all looked like in yukatas! ;)

We have this on our side as well but I couldn't understand so they helped me with it! After which, the girls proceeded to enjoy their virgin (most of them) onsen bath....... except me. Unfortunately, I was experiencing my 4th day of my period and I've decided to be honest about it and not try.

Initially they asked me to just sneak in without saying a thing since it's the 4th day already so it's alright, but I don't feel righteous enough to tell a lie so HAHAHAHAHA, I gave onsen a miss!

But I made the right choice. Please let me show off abit by saying. Can choose not to read though, but I'm gonna write it down to remember this minor yet awesome moment of my life hehehehehe.

It's like this...... *blush*

I was offered the foot onsen instead so I went for it. Unlucky for me, it was outdoors and it was drizzling. Weather was as cold as ice! I touched the hotsprings water, it was HOT. I saw two guys playing with each other there and they looked at me, then said something.

I couldn't catch what he was saying because he spoke too fast. So I replied him saying that I'm not a Japanese (yeah I said it in Japanese) and he gave me a very shock expression saying, “日本人じゃない？！”(You're not Japanese?!)

1) His shocked expression made me a little bit happy because I must have looked like a Japanese in my yukata. =D

Guess what his friend said?

“でも可愛いですよね！！”　(But she's cute!)

YOU KNOW HOW DIFFERENT IT IS TO HEAR IT FROM A TRUE BLUE JAPANESE??? IT'S TOTALLY A DIFFERENT LEVEL ALTOGETHER!

I was really, really happy to hear it! But I pretend that I didn't hear it because I was shy and didn't dare to look at them in the face directly. But before that I did looked at them, the one that first talked to me was HANDSOME. Not joking. The one that praised me I could only see his side view, but he's good looking too!

Can die there. HAPPY.

They played for awhile while I did my foot onsen, shivering in cold while my foot remains warm. When they left, they said “またね！”(See you!) to me. I returned their farewell with a "See you!" in Japanese as well but with the thinking, "I wish, but it's impossible! T___T"

When the girls ended, I told Aizen-sama about my dreamy encounter and she said she could tell that I was filled with happiness! ^______^

There's another guy that told me I was cute too! The coach driver! Hahahahaha, he was extremely random and suddenly praised me when I was alighting the coach. Tony then repeated what the coach driver said.

The coach driver called me "oujo-sama" too! Something like Milady.

It was a wonderful night!

Went for our dinner after the onsen!

A somehow very blurry yet dreamy picture of the food taken by Jim.

I'm not very sure which shopping mall we're at but there are a lot of things inside!

Me and my boots! I'm going to wear like that in Singapore when I have the chance. Just because we live in humid Singapore doesn't mean we cannot wear boots. I'm prepared for weird stares though! It's common for narrow minded fellows.

Isn't this pretty?!

We pass by the Tokyo Tower everyday!

Tony was saying for tourists, whenever they see the Tokyo Tower, they'll be snapping pictures.

Day 1 : "Lookie! Tokyo Tower!" *Snapsnapsnap*

Day 2 : "Eh see see see!" *Snapsnapsnap*

Day 3 : "Ooooh... Tokyo Tower. So cool."

Day 4 : "Tokyo Tower."

Day 5. "........"

Day 6 : *Looks at other direction*

Or something like that.

TIME TO RETURN TO OUR NEW HOTEL!!!!!!

I very tired leh. But I don't wanna separate into Part III because I want it to be organised, everyday shall only be classfied in two parts!

I love this picture!! Although it's only back view.

The very helpful reception desk! They have almost everything I need! From boxes to tapes.

Waiting for the lift! Most of us live on the 8th storey, and I'm always so lucky to be living at the storey which everyone's at! ^-^

Too cold to think about swimming.

AND YOU THINK OUR NIGHT'S OVER LIKE THAT????????? NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The nightlife begins now! But before that, we gotta put down our luggages and then change my boots to ankle boots because it's killing me.

The drink that Jim introduced me. It's nice! I wonder if Singapore has it?

The guys went for authentic ramen while the girls went for KARAOKE!!

In Japan, it's known as Karaoke BOX.

We're singing Japanese songs! Actually we're all choosing anime songs just that some of them are in band MTV. But I get more motivated when the song features the anime itself though! Aizen-sama chose Arashi songs because she don't know anime songs.

The lights changes from green to purple, purple to orange and more! It adds on to the atmosphere!

And everyone got high (except Aizen-sama because she doesn't listen to anime songs) with ONE PIECE'S "WE ARE".

WE PRACTICALLY SCREAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMED~!!!

HAHAHAHAHA LOOK AT SHERRY'S EXPRESSION!!!!!!!! SO HIGH.

This one should be Arashi's song.

Aizen-sama, Melissa, Sherry!

My necessities whenever I go out! Earmuffs and gloves is a MUST.

I thought I'll lose my voice the next day after screaming so much but I didn't. Phew! If I did I probably couldn't speak to Danny at all.

After our fantastic night, we travelled against the cold weather and got back to our hotel! I think the guys came back later than us. Their ramen couldn't beat our Karaoke muahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!

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