At 12:03 AM on
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Finally done with turning 775 photos into 66 collages! So here, our Tokyo trip 17Feb11 - 23Feb11. A good break away from work but more importantly, a much better understanding. Enough said, let the pictures do their job. See how the chin starts disappearing and replaced with double chin and the revolution of an already-not-so-thin gal.
On our 6.5 hrs flight. I caught megamind while he caught some kungfu show (I think). I had beef pasta while he had chicken with rice and nice soba.
Hello Tokyo! We arrived nearly 12midnight tokyo time and rushed to catch our last train to the hotel. Taking the airport express.
Their very complex subway. So many lines! But we didn't hop on the wrong trains and lose our way. A pretty good transport system which brought us through our stay in tokyo.
Finally reached our hotel. Dormy Inn, our shelter for the next 3 days. Very convenient as it's located near the train station. Except for the flights of stairs which weren't quite friendly with our luggages. It was drizzling and late at night but surprisingly it wasn't very cold.
The small but cosy room. Just great for us. 
This was the only supper we could find at such hour to satisfy our growling stomachs. Our very first 'meal' in tokyo!
First day was to the temple, eating non-stop along the way.
First on the list was, some freshly made rice cracker and rice cake which was yummy!
Next up: Fresh 大福 aka mochi. 
And then something with sweet potato fillings.
And more freshly made rice cracker dipped in shoyu which was super salty.
And more freshly made rice cracker dipped in shoyu which was super salty.
人形烧 on the left and something sesame with red bean fiiling (again!)
求签. I got a regular fortune while he got bad fortune!
Holy water and incense smoke for good luck. The water is icy cold! Also lit a candle.
Off for some shopping next!
A very touching bowl of eel rice. Strongly recommended. This kept both of us quiet for awhile. And as in shows, you go 'wow' with brightly lit eyes. Of course, this is no exaggeration. Double thumbs up! This set cost around S$60.
Eel rice was at 3pm and soon after we went for ramen at 5+pm. This is another touching bowl of ramen.Same effect, we kept quiet and concentrated on our food and can't stop wow-ing. Ippudo ramen. Oishi!!
Headed to Roponggi hills for a stroll and he, in search for the 'red district'. Lol!
Our hotel has an onsen. Of course we had to give it a try. Thankfully mine only had 2 aunties if not quite paiseh to go in naked. Quite an experience.
And no the night didn't end with onsen. We were soon on our way for supper! (yes tell me how i won't become round after tokyo) This man wanted to act hooligan with his kim liang.
We landed ourselves at a 24hrs sushi place. Yummy! Tried sake for the first time. Don't really like it.
The 24hrs sushi place. Not too bad.
The next morning. Ready for another fun filled day!
Another nice ramen place for breakfast. This is more interesting but lost to ippudo's ramen. Made our order through this machine.
It's individual seating! Each has their own cubicle which i thought was quite interesting. Something new.
Those traditional kind of ramen. No fanciful flavours, only one kind but still very good. Only difference is the amount of spring onions he have!! Eeeeewww.
24hrs too!
Just shopping and exploring the streets. He wanna act Japanese with the mask. Haha. Made a token at disney store.
Takopachi is good!
Headed to the observatory. A super long and tedious journey there. METROPOLITAN. *shudders*
Our not very satisfying dinner. Just bought food at takashimaya basement back to eat in our cosy room. It was near closing and everywhere was chaotic. And so we had tempura, sashimi, some frid stuff, 串烧, sushi.
Rise and shine for another day! On our way to the fish market. Got abit hungry and cold so stopped by starbucks to get a baunkuchen (tokyo's kuey lapis) and a cuppa hot mocha.
We didn't get to visit the fish market as it's closed on Sunday. But we made some discoveries near the fish market and settled for breakfast there. First up, some sweet egg which attracts crowds.
And then coming up next was something uber good! Scallop, oyster and hairy crab soup. 超赞！
Real tuna.
More food along the way. Eel and something unknown.
We checked out from our 3 days accommodation and headed to another hotel.
Lunch was very nice soba and 串烧 at gomanchi. Really very good.
Nice view.
Our next more luxurious hotel. Grand Pacific le Daiba.
*No pictures here though there were some activities* This is due to the occurence of an episode. An episode of unhappiness, anger and disappointment and at the end of the day of love, realization and appreciation. An episode that i felt resulted in much progression. At least for me. Although there is no need to reach that stage, but i'm glad it happened. And because of this, we had this S$140 room service dinner. I truly appreciate your efforts now and truly know you care alot.
After dinner dessert. Fruits we bought from the supermarket earlier. The ever famous very expensive T melon that we lugged all the way back to singapore which he protected with all his might.
It's disneyland day! Breakfast at macs. Cheese macgriddles for me and sausage macmuffin for him.
We're finally at the long awaited disneyland!! The bus behind me is so cute! Joke of the day gotta be 'minnie duck'! LOL!
The beautiful castle.
Oink oink!
Quite disappointed there wasn't alot of characters around to take picture with unlike in HK's. Only managed to get hold of chip and dale and pinocchio's father (like huh?!) I don't even know who he is until Mr Tan told me.
The rides we took. Not alot but not surprising given that waiting time for each ride is 80mins! That is madness. In the cold somemore. Big nono!
Disney food. Mickey shaped waffle, teriyaki chicken which we searched high and low for, churros, soup, pork rice roll and curry flavoured popcorn in mickey container.
Another token i made in disneyland!
Too cold outdoors so we had to hide indoors and started playing with these hairbands!
Night in disney. Beautifully lit castle.
BBQ for dinner! This is good!
Acting punk again.
Lunch was quite a disappointment. Wasted stomach space.
Visited the takoyaki musuem. It's just a place that everyone sells takoyaki and related snacks.
Nice hotel.
Night scene.
Shabu shabu for dinner. Took the buffet deal and almost died from it. Had 3 big plates of beef and pork. Although it was quite good but kinda overdosed.
Amazing we still had space for dessert! The ice cream were calling out to us. Had to get the royce and chestnut to try. *BURP* That marks our last night in Tokyo.
Flight at 630am. Transport arranged at 4am. We were the only ones heading to the airport so the hotel arranged a nice 'limousine'. Quite cool.
The melon bun and white choc with sesame bagel we bought the day before.
6.5 hrs flight back to sunny singapore. Breakfast and light refreshment which doesn't look too light to me.
This marks the end of our 7 days Tokyo trip. Talking about it now makes me miss it so much. At the end of the day it's still the company that makes everything just perfect. I really thank you for making all these happen. So looking forward to phuket this coming sun!CarysMummy
Jasmine
