Japan!

It's been a week since I'm back from Japan. so lazy to update about it. hehe. Japan was GREAT! Especially with my beloved darx. ^^

Day 1

Reached japan early in the morning. we took the monorail to tokyo station. Tokyo station is HUGE! We got lost there, just the station itself, while we were lookin for the lockers where we put our luggage. Anyway, we put our luggage into the locker, exchange our JR pass and head to Asakusa.
I wasnt used to the weather on the first day, so I was freaking cold till I'm having "brainfreeze". Head was aching. so I went to some random 100yen shop that we pass by and bought a hat. hehe.
Had a hard time locating asakusa cuz we walked the wrong direction. Spent quite some time before we reached Asakusa.
Then after that, we went to Akihabara. Where there's lots of electric shops, arcades and animae/comic shops.
After that, we went to Pokemon centre where all the cute pokemon stuff were.
In the evening, we took the bullet train to Osaka. Got confused with the location of our hotel...got kindda lost again.
Finally reached hotel, went to nearby supermarket and bought our dinner. Cup noodle, salad and dango.
I love japanese supermarket! =D

Day 1 was full of walking under the freaking cold weather, getting lost in japan and trying to find our way around.

Day 2

We went to Nara deer park in the morning. Many many wild deers. Then we bought this $17, 550g sweet potato. The moment darx got the sweet potato in his hand, 3 deers immediately came and want to snatch the sweet potato from him, end up we have to quickly RUN! what an interesting encounter.

Then in the afternoon, we head to Kyoto - Mt. Hiei. Again, need to walk a distance to the cable car station. This time round it's snowing at that area, so it's even colder. But the good thing was I got to see SNOW! First time seeing snow, so happy. I love snow! but not the very cold weather thou. I got frostbites, dry skin and crack lips due to the cold weather for my 1 week there.

Day 3

Went to Osaka aquarium. It's a nine storey aqurium, but I feel like Singapore underworld got more things to see thou. Except for the whale shark.

Remember how a petition was signed against the bringing of whale shark into the upcoming RWS aquarium? I get to see how a real whale shark look like in the aquarium. Thou the aquarium built a nine storey tank for the whale shark, but I think it's still too small for that poor fish as compared to the huge ocean it could have.
It's kindda contradicting lah. Like I'm interested to see how a whale shark looks like. I'm fascinated by how big it is. But on the other hand, I feel sad for the whale shark that it have to live in that tank?
In addition, it's like...there's educational message like saving the environment and conservation, and how the whale shark is a endangered species etc in the aquarium. But on the other hand, u catch a whale shark and keep it in that 'small' tank? Oh well...that's the ugly truth of life.
I hope all the people that visited the aquarium can learn the importance of conservation from the whale shark so as to make the sacrifice from the whale shark "worthwhile'.


Okay, back to topic.
After the aquarium, we went to Shimsaibashi. It's a long long shopping street in Osaka. Went the remaining afternoon shopping at that street.
another tiring day.