Saturday, November 21, 2009

Day 4: Japan, Japan and more Japan!

Today was so great! I roamed around Tokyo as I had planned to. There were so many things that made the day so special that am just gonna list them all down! :)

a) Breakfast at a cafe inside a Japanese garden.
b) Cafe Latte that came in a cup without a handle, with a wooden-rectangular-flat saucer, with a wooden-long-rectangular stirrer, with multi-coloured sugar-hemispheres (yup, they were not cubes and they were coloured).
c) Walking through a Japanese garden complete with pretty trees, stone sculptures, a stream and a Japanese tea room right in the middle of it all.
d) Exploring some crazy, filty-rich Parisian Japanese guy's collection of antiques in a museum.
e) Being the only non-Japanese and for that matter, only person below the age of 50, in the museum.
f) Figuring out the complex train system in Tokyo and actually managing to get to different destinations without getting lost.
g) Walking through the crowded streets of Shibuya - equivalent to the Orchard Road of Singapore and Times Square of New York.
h) Ogling at the amazing 109 mall's fashion collections (which were reasonably priced as well, by the way). It was all winter fashion and it was way better than what I saw in US! Loved it!
i) Lunch at a tiny Japanese restaurant where the chef cooks at the centre and the customers eat around him, seated on wooden stools at a circular wooden table.
j) Being the only non-Japanese at the restaurant as well.
k) Discovering even more incredible functions of the Japanese toilet bowl such as a remote control, a dryer option and a massage option!
l) Last but not the least, being the only female in Tokyo to be wearing jeans. The rest were all wearing leggings.

Now I am on my way back to Singapore. So Japan, it was wonderful! :) Arigatogozaimas and Sayonara for now!

996 more to go.

3 comments:

  1. Test test, prev comment disappeared? :/

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  2. Ok, reposting the first comment I'd put here:

    Blogging helps recreate and refresh the smallest of details of the experience long after it's over... looks like you're enjoying the process of recording the days as much as the days themselves :D

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  3. You are absolutely right there! Let's see how long this goes on.... ! :P Thanks for reading! :)

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