Thursday, December 07, 2006
I'm back. Returned on Wednesday early morn from tokyo. Had a great time when we were walking in the park. Had a great time going crazy over cute things. Had a great time eating sushi, tempura and eating/drinking tea poured over rice. i had a great time but not the best. i went to bed every night like a baby and woke up ready to see the world. But sometimes, the world is just not enough.
all these were taken from the airport limousine bus. it's not the cheapest ride from the airport but most convenient as the bus stops you right outside your hotel. we stayed at shinjuku washington, a 3 star hotel for businessmen and apparantly for volleyball university teams. it's a hotel with no frills but it's clean,comfortable and cheap.
And that's all for the pictures from airport limousine bus. I'm not a very good photographer as i don't have a steady hand; i'm way too slow to take a good shot, too lazy with the technical aspects; rather cowardly too...
this would make a nice christmas postcard. it's a van parked out at shinjuku and it reminded me of my sister who likes all things creepy and crawly.
lovely walk in the park at harajuku. this would be the 3rd day of our trip. before i went mad with shopping at one of the many lanes in harajuku, we decided to take a walk. weather is excellent with bright sun and cold air. there is a shrine in the park and we walked to it and got a little food massage with all the loose gravel paving the walkway.
someone is camera-shy.
this is the graphics on one of the lanterns fixed up into this huge panel of paper lanterns on one side of the walkway.
so people visiting the shrine wash their hands and some drink the water before entering. This station is located outside the shrine.
So the above was the last picture of the shrine in the park. These similar looking photos are from okanemochi station. we dropped by here for no other reason then to find hannon's favourite cd shop "discunion" that sells a wide range of 2nd hand cds-his paradise. But besides the cd, it's a nice section of tokyo with university students, guitar/musical instrument shops and antique bookshops which fascinated me but sadly they only sold japanese antique books. And then, it's just lovely walking here and eating tonkatsu. this river stretches on for some miles and i saw it on the train before these stations, with a couple of wild ducks swimming about. we get white minature cranes here but there they have brown ducks and ducklings. these things.. touch my foolish heart.
And next we have ginza, the place where they sell $10 coffee. but i was more interested in visiting the sony building and trying out the ps3. But having found and explored the building, i couldn't find it at all and he wanted to get it over and move on. sigh...
and this is a photo of me with a singer at shinjuku street. during the weekends, individuals and bands perform on the street to promote their albums or demos. This girl had the sweetest voice. i'll try to upload one of her songs so u can listen. and that's about all the photos. i'm falling half asleep doing this.
1 Comments:
looks like a real nice trip!!
make me feel like going to japan too :)
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