Good morning, Azagawa, overlooking beautiful Lake Kawaguchi during Autumn season!
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| The morning view of the lake, drizzled thereafter~ |
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| More beautiful pictures of the lake. |
1. As usual, we woke up early to get ready for our breakfast at the ground floor of the hotel. We tidied up all our things and took it down along with us and spent most of our time having breakfast at the cafe.
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Selfie with the lake before departing.
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2. We departed to Tokyo with the first plan of visiting the Asakusa Kannon Temple (
Sensō-ji), Tokyo's oldest temple! This is an ancient Buddhist temple. This temple worship to Goddess of Mercy (similar to the Chinese Guan Yin Ma). The main entrance to the temple lies a huge lantern which is known as the Thundergate or Kaminarimon.
In order to get to the temple, our bus pastby the bridge (Yi Tian Chuan) and one could see the Asahi beer building with the huge gold horizontal-like Olympic gold flame symbol and Skytree Observation tower from here. We were told that when it was being built in the earlier days, the structure was in a vertical position. However, the structure fell down after that and thus the Japanese just secured the position of the horizontal-like structure which made it looked very unique to them.
Indeed~ It is like the saying goes, make lemonade out of lemon! Ain't it interesting and looks creative too? ;)
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| Hello Tokyo! |
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| A very crowded city! |
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| Passing by one of the bridge to get to the other side. |
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| The Asahi beer building and sculpture. |
When we've arrived at the temple, we were given around 45 min to roam around or do some prayers at the temple itself before gather at the entrance. We only prayed and then we thought we just gathered at around the entrance to wait for them. However....we didn't think that we would receive a misinformation and misinterpretation and then we ended up waiting at the wrong mini entrance and wasted our precious 30 min. Had to contact the tour guide by sms-es and phone calls. Worse, the temple was super crowded with tourists and worshipers.
Communication shows us that it is key to everything! Next time, we should all confirm again and again in whatever we are doing if we found ourselves not clear about anything in life, be it at work, home or travel! This kinda thing happens at work as always~ I fancy my colleagues loved to nod everytime the bosses gave instructions to them and then by the end of the day, they'll be asking around what to do.
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| Asakusa (Sensō-ji) Temple |
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| Beer storage and cup?? No idea of it. |
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| With the weeping willow tree |
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| Asakusa (Sensō-ji) temple from another angle. |
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| Landscape around the temple. |
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| Nice landscape and mutated bluish Koi fishes~ |
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| Overlooking the Skytree Observation Tower in Tokyo! |
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Prayers for success, health, wealth and happiness in life :*
(hope that we were not wrong though.We followed exactly what the Jap tour guide's instruction):
1. Cleanse each of the hand and rinse the mouth by following the instructions which are hung on the beam, |
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| 2. Get nearby to the incense and try to sweep it over to your body. |
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| 3. Get to the altar and pray. |
The tour guide bought us this polo bun (poloupao) from Asakusa area to try! So kind of her!
Similar to the Hong Kong polo bun style! Yummy indeed! I can never forget the yummy taste of the bun in which I will never find this in Malaysia. Almost similar to Roti boy, but more special and without the coffee flavour~ I dislike coffee, but not to the extend of hate la~
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| This paper packaging of polo bun. |
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| The look of the yum yum polo bun. |
Yum
3. Then, we had our Japanese bento set lunch at one of the restaurants, located just few shops next to the temple's thundergate.
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| I was more enthused in the sashimi. Too tired from searching around for the group. |
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| On our way walking back to the meeting point of our express bus. |
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| It rained heavily suddenly and we had to stand nearby a public hall. Saw this umbrella holding area with keys to lock. OMGGG, precious umbrellas! LOL~ |
4. Next, we departed to Ginza Street, a Western-style shopping street!
On our way there, the bus just drove pastby the Japan King's palace. We only saw the huge palace garden. We were given around 1 1/2 hour to shop around the shopping street. Woahhhhh, such a huge 12 storeys high Japanese Uniqlo clothes building I've seen!!! We were told to pronounce it as "uniq-ku-lo" and not "uniq-glo" although it is spelled as Uniqlo itself. Brand is originated from the Japanese, thus, respect that kind of pronunciation.
Actually, we were told to only shop around the Uniqlo building. We obeyed stupidly but then at the end of the day, we found that all our other travel mates roamed around at the whole street and into many other shops. Most of them were just crazy for this Japanese branded bags known as Anello. The tour guide teased us by saying that only Malaysians are into this brand, and thus this brand is not crazy at all by the Japanese cause she had asked us if we have seen any Japanese using such brand at all so far in our trip. LMAO~ The design looks quite unique as if it looked like a hybrid of an auntie styled handbag that is extended into a backpack.
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| The palace garden. |
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| The 12 storey high clothes building, Uniqlo! |
5. After Ginza street, we visited this huge Aqua City in Odaiba (also known as the Olympic city). The Venus Fort Shopping Mall is located inside this huge building. There is also a themepark which is adjacent to the mall, Toyota showroom display. We were given around 2 hour to roam around free and easy.
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| We were brought to this cheap and affordable 100Yen shop :D |
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| Visited the pet shop too. Cute Shiba Inu pooches! |
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| Mini poodle! Damn, the price is super expensive. Guess how much? equivalent to buying a car (~RM30,000) here. OMGGG! |
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| Pugs pooches! |
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| There is a vintage car showroom too. Most of it are Japanese made cars like Honda, Toyota, Nissan.. |
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| I love this vintage style sports car and it's in white colour. |
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| A unique and stylish vintage and at the same time cute lil' red 3-wheel cabin German scooter from year 1953 by Messerschmitt. |
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| This sporty vintage car, reminded me of a cartoon back in the days (forgot about the name though). |
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| Green vintage car. |
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| Greek like fountain deco inside the mall. |
6. Before we departed to Narita Airport (also known as the Tokyo's International Airport), we stopped by to have our dinner at the Chinese cuisine restaurant, Long Yuen- Dragon Garden Restaurant in Tokyo.
Damnnn, it was sooooooooo yummy to the tummy for all of us! We started with this lobster abalone spaghetti with thousand island kind of sauce flavour. Such a sumptuous dinner indeed! We finished all of our 8-course dinner in within 30 min. *jeng jeng jeng jeng. LMAO~
I guessed that we were quite sick with all those day in day out Japanese food at that moment. haha~
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| Part of our Chinese course cuisine. e.g. spaghetti abalone crab, tofu stew, sweet and sour deep fried prawns, chicken, steamed fish, chicken soup and etc. |
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| This is the restaurant we went to. |
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| Overlooking the moon in Japan, which was round and big! Our last night in Japan~ |
7. We've reached Narita Airport, Tokyo! Awaiting for our midnight flight to fly back home~ Therefore, we had a lot of time checking out their duty free shops.
We got ourselves matcha green tea Royce Nama chocolate and matcha green tea drinks (from the vending machine-trying to finish off our loose coins). The price for the chocolate was so much cheaper than the same chocolate we could buy from at our local mall after imported it to our country.
Therefore, a necessity to try since it was cheap, right?;)
Anyway, we had the Royce Nama chocolate immediately after purchase (it was kept in the freezer but I don't think it could last for 6 hours throughout our journey although it was possible to buy dry ice) from the duty free shop and so to keep them fresh, they were all melted in our mouth yummily~ ;)
We also bought ourselves Tokyo Banana cakes to try. Heard that it is only sold at the airport though. Strange~
We bought other snacks too, such as green tea mochis.
The next time, I've been wanting to try and miss out in buying was the Sake flavour Kit Kat (saw it at outside the airport shop but not inside the duty free shop, after security checkpoint though). T.T
We initially arrived in Japan at Haneda Airport (another site of Tokyo) but we were departing now in Japan from the Narita Airport.
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Japan is so fast to host the Olympics Tokyo 2020. Therefore, one could see the poster being placed in 2016 Autumn.
Damn efficient :) |
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| Banner by the Haneda Tokyo Japan. |
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| Green tea matcha drinks and Royca Nama Choco. |
Time to bid farewell (sayonara), Japan! Lucky for us, we escaped the typhoon at around that time which hit Taiwan and Japan.
Thank youuuu, Japan, you've treated us very kindly~
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| My loot from Japan! :D |
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| My self- declared souvenirs from the hotel(S). LOL~ *green teas and coffee; made in Japan) |
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Tokyo Banana. at ~RM40 after conversion for 8 packets.
One must try this! It has a real banana filling inside the cook. Cakes that weren't cloying though. |
So, see ya again next time!
