Hokkaido - Tokyo 2007 [Chapter 3]

Chapter threeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, too many pics, too many pics. getting v drowsy from runny nose medicine that i took just now, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

FREE AND EASY DAYS.

We woke up even earlier on free and easy day, than other days. Well, we woke up at 6am -_- but the day was worth it i guess.

Our first destination was Tsukiji Market, a fish market that sells very fresh seafood and serves very fresh sushi! The place was full of vehicles that were transporting barrels here and there, so our life was at risk >__< Thankfully, they could drive well. The place was really dirty too, and my new Nike Shoes became black after that -__- Furthermore, the crowd wasn't helping much either.

The seafood was really great though!








the food there looked really fresh, and the smell was fishy too lol. We ate our sushi breakfast after that though, but we waited for around 45mins for our turn >__< The shops were small and could only accomodate a certain number of people. Japanese seem to have a tolerance for waiting too -__- I can't believe them.

The food there was not bad though, as said by my parents and their colleagues. To me, if the salmon tastes good, everything is good XD





after our hearty breakfast, our family proceeded down to shibuyaaaaaaaaaa XD The heart of tokyo, that famous crossroad scene that we see on many postcards and travel shows! Wheeeeeeee... Actually, my main objective for going to Shibuya was to look at exotic people O.o Those who cosplay and all that. Sad to say, I didn't see many of them. But I saw many Japanese who pretend to be Americans: fake tan, blone hair, short shorts, and heavy makeup. Whatever. They look weird.




I remembered reading an article in Life, saying that the starbucks at shibuya was good, so I went to try it out. I drank this Belgium Chocolate Frap for 450yen, around $5.90? About the same price as Singapore I guess... It was quite nice hur, but I'm not a Starbucks gourmet so I couldn't tell the difference.

And sad to say, the only thing that I bought at Shibuya were socks, and AN APPLE. HAHAHAHA! There wasn't the mood for shopping at all...


strawberries that I saw at a provision stall in Shibuya. Where I got my apple. The strawberries in Japan are goooooooooooood. Really sweet too!


Did a lot of window shopping in shibuya, and our whole family went into this electronic shop hahaa. The phones in Japan look so sleek and nice! I felt like geting one, but I doubt it would work in Singapore though -_- one thing about Japan is that all the people use clamshell phones. Weird huh.


Japan can really take care of their children! This is a special phone designed for children. It looks plasic though, yeeh this is because its waterproof! Specialised for children who have butter fingers. Generally, Japanese like to put handphone accessories on their phone. Softbank has made use of this fact to build in a trigger into this phoen for children. THe child can simply activate it by pulling the handphone accessory, which will send an emergency mesage to your parents! Pretty cool huh.


After that, we went to Ueno, this place which was like a pasa malam. Just that its much noisier, and had moreeee people. Seriously, we were all squashed like Sardines against one another in that place. Thankfully, it was winter, so it wasn't so bad. Imagine if it were in Singapore, oh man i would just die from the humidity and heat.

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The next day, we went to DISNEYLAND! Hurrah! We got there by this special shuttlebus by Disneyland from our hotel. Our hopes were high when we got there, but were immediately dashed when we saw the crowd there..!! There was a whole sea of people la! We had to wait for around 20mins? To get into Disneyland, and the first thing I saw at Disney land was...



Poohbear! I'm not a great fan of Poohbear, but I just thought it looked especially cute when I saw it. I wanted to take a picture with it but the queue was sooooooooooo long, I just gave up -_- Okay, so we roamed around Disneyland for a while... and finally! We saw an attraction that didn't have an insane number of people!

Lol, it was Mickey's Show (or something). The first part was a slideshow on Walt Disney in the past and advancing to the present. Even my mother recognised somee of the characters! And the second part was a puppet show; It was really cool, how the puppets are playing music and all. I'm assuming that they are actually producing the music since it looked rather convincing to me.



There was this rollercoaster ride that was great fun XD Even though the ride was rather short (not even a min), but it was fine waiting for it. The wait was 45 mins long -_- but thats considered short compared to the other rides! There was a ride which we had to wait 3h for! Naturally, we didn't ride that.



My mother says that Japan is smart, to positon its queue in a way that we get to see the rollercoaster ride at every angle. Lol, she's right. Throughout the wait, I was so excited whenever I saw a rollercoaster rumble past us.

After that, we went to this racing thing. Reminds me of go-kart in Escape, but yeah this one was more restricted -_- Anyway, the wait was also about 40mins, but the whole ride was fun XD




We watched this 3d movie after that, and our family entertained ourselves by playing this lame hand game that xiuxian taught us. More like the korean show taught her, but it was entertaining. Anyway, the 3d show was freakaye, something like "Honey I Shrunk the Kids", and yes it's the same one as 6 years ago -_-. It's the same one as what I saw in Primary Four la!

we got cool specs

Basically, that about wraps up my disneyland trip. There were far too many people for us to have a good time. Xiuxian did have a good eyeful of cool Japanese guys there too though HAHAHA! And I realise that even the children of Japan have better hair than us -_-

sunset that we saw on the train