Japan Day 10: Harajuku x Shibuya,

Good day!

Posting Day 10 in Japan with the LOML now! So here goes...

Read my Dayre to recover my memory loss and wow! I totally forgot the fact that I woke up at 630am on this day, washed up and went back to sleep again. LOL! I was only officially awake at 810am. I think my energy was drained by how packed our schedule was!

It was drizzling and the rain kinda dampened my mood. I mean, who likes it when it rains when you travel overseas?

First stop was a Disney Store where I bought both Mickey and Minnie tsumtsum (shown above) back to add to my soft toys collection on bed. Actually no, my bed didn't have any soft toy before this trip but I purchased way too many during my Japan trip so yeah... All at one go!

And guess what's next?

We walked to Calbee+ for their freshly made snacks!! Woohoo! It's been on my list since forever!

I gotta say that both Mr. Z and I preferred the Calbee sticks more than their potato chips. It's like eating a cup of really crispy fries and I love skinny fries. So this cup of fries rlly makes it to the top of my list!

Cont'd and had our lunch after snacks. 吃不停 one leh seriously... We had udon at a restaurant in Harajuku. You can definitely get to eat delicious udon as long as you're in Japan. Yums!

Proceeded to Meiji Jingu Shrine but because it started pouring, we decided to take a break at the cafe nearby. We didn't really explore the places because, erm we were kinda tired of exploring shrines in Japan?

Yes, I was this bored! 

We left the place shortly later because we had no interest anymore. To see the same thing (similar things) over and over again. We took the train to Shibuya for Hachiko statue and Shibuya crossing. It was quite overwhelming at the pedestrian crossing. HAHAH!

It was really packed and there were way too many pedestrians so it was very awkz for me to be standing there for so long. I really wonder how others did it without feeling awkz!!

Anyway, we purchased our tickets for DisneySEA at the Disney Store here. I think it's better to purchase your tickets at other places rather than the ticketing booth outside DisneySEA because this means that you can save time in queuing up on that day itself! You will be thankful for that too.

I was just thiiiiis close to buying this piece back! :(

I think this is one of the biggest Disney Store in town? It consists of 3 levels high and there was even Star Wars section. Their stairways are really pretty and enchanted too! Anyone who's visiting Shibuya should totally visit this store even if it's just to enjoy their aircon!

Took me so many tries to get this shot with that star blinking!

Got our tickets!!

We decided to head back to Shinjuku since our main agenda is to go for Calbee+ and Meiji Jingu Shrine in Shibuya.

And finally... We patronised the cat cafe, Calico Cat Cafe, in Shinjuku. I've no idea where it's located at because Mr. Z was my navigator throughout the whole trip. But just be mindful that the entrance is a really small passage way to the staircase that leads to the lift for the cat cafe.

The entrance fee costs 1000yen each and each packet of cat food costs 300yen. There is also a limit to the duration. Hmmm. I think they wna control the crowd. Each person can stay for at least an hour, and 3hours at most.

Posting only these few photos because it's really hard to capture nice photos of all the cats there. Anyway, there are really fluffy!! And a self-reminder, never to wear black to cats / dogs / or any furry animals cafe because their fur would get stuck onto your apparels and it's really hard to get rid of them! And, the cats with red scarf are those that have diabetic illness. It's quite poor thing and sad to see such thing because they aren't allowed to eat the cat food that we bought.

All they can do was to watch other cats enjoying their food BUT TO MAKE IT UP TO THAT POINT, THEY ARE VERY LOVED BY THE PEOPLE WHO VISITED THE CAFE!! Damn fluffy!

Mr. Z and I had to head back to our apt to change before we headed out for dinner again. Thankfully our apt was located nearby, just about 7mins walk away from this cat cafe!!

Had our dinner at Nabezo, an "eat all you can" shabu shabu buffet restaurant in Shinjuku. The waitress who served us knew minimum English, and there was communication breakdown. But it's nothing serious because we still got to eat our food. Just that, we had one extra set because she thought we wanted 2 sets of meat. We were already stuffed by then!

Ended our dinner with a BOOMZ, met Mr. Z's friend for a mere 20 minutes and off we headed back to our apt for an early rest because..... DISNEYSEA THE NEXT DAY!!

Goodbye! 

Japan Day 9: Yokohama

Hello,

Firstly, I would like to wish all mothers, esp MY MUM, a...

HAPPY MOTHERS' DAY! 

Taken during our trip to Beijing

It's definitely not easy bringing me up since I was born. I was the but my mum did it and is still doing her best in giving me the much needed support since I started my job hunt. Job hunting hasn't been a good one but my family has definitely given me a pair of listening ears each!

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Alright, down to Day 9 of my Japan trip! On this day, we went a day trip to Yokohama for its must-visit Cup Noodle Museum and another part of the small city.

We settled our breakfast at McDonald's since we haven't tried the Mac's in Japan yet. So why not? I love their menu so much, even their fries!!

If I'm not wrong, I tried the teriyaki chicken burger. Can't rmb what Mr. Z ordered. We also topped 300yen (~ SGD4) to buy their Classic Fry Hachimitsu Mustard Sauce for their fries! No regrets!!

I had Teriyaki Chicken burger and the patty was soooo soft! Love their burgers! Everything literally melted in my mouth, except for the lettuce (duh!). Had a very satisfying meal at McDonald's which I hadn't expected lah. Started our day in Yokohama by going to........

They really do have more variety of soft toys in this outlet! Do check out the store here if you are in Yokohama for a day! :) Bought what my Bro wanted and my mission was accomplished!

Off we went for our Cup Noodle Museum where we stayed for about 2hours there!

We were lucky to enter the museum at the right time because an elderly man came up to us with this discounted voucher. Initially I didn't know what he wants and he kept shoving this voucher to me until Mr. Z came to understand the situation. I mean, all he did was shoving the piece of paper to me and I didn't even have the time to process what it was... Hahah, but we thanked him profusely after we managed to understand what he was trying to do! May God bless this kind-hearted guy! :) 

Fun fact 1: I used to eat cup noodles almost everyday after school back when I was studying in Anderson Secondary School because there's this bubble tea shop located just at the end of the block opposite the school! I think this is also part of the reasons why I'm so petite? Lack of nutrition when I was still growing! 

Fun Fact 2: I used to eat McDonald's quite often when I was in Sec 1 - 3. Now that when Mr. Z and I think back, we'd always go "fxxking gross please!". LOL!!  

Spot anything familiar?

Design your own cup noodle! One cup for 300 Yen I think? Mr. Z and I bought a total of 5 cups, 2 for him and 3 for myself but of course we'd be giving one to friend/family!

As I wasn't an artistic person, I didn't have any idea of what to draw on the cup while Mr. Z started wayyyy earlier than me (watch the video below to see how long I took. It was in fact longer than what it was in the video!). Plus, I've to draw three cups while Mr. Z had only 2 cups to draw!

Yep, very serious! 

My Charmander looks super weird though

Quite happy with this cup of mine. I was trying so hard to draw the outline while looking at the image in my phone! But yay, Mr. Z who can draw so much better than me approved of my drawing! Done with our drawing and we proceeded to fill our cups with noodles and ingredients that we wanted.

Once you're done with your cup noodles, you have to proceed to a corner to pump air into the plastic baggage. Only one cup noodle for each plastic bag. We had 5 cups, hence 5 bags of cup noodles. LOL!

Like this!

Done with the museum and we moved on to Kamakura Station...

The weather was really bad. It felt like it was 35 deg C, I just had to buy some snacks and rest s'where while Mr. Z searched for the right direction before we moved towards the venue.

Just checked my Dayre and it was 29 deg C on that day! Damn, I can still remember vividly how bad the weather was!!! Settled our lunch at a restaurant in Kamakura and thankful for the aircon in the place! Udon for lunch!! :)

We took train to their famous Kamakura Crossing where we really stayed for quite long just to take a few nice shots. TBH, none of the photos are nice lah. It was quite dark with no sunlight at all. I think it was already 4-ish in the evening. Quite sad!

We missed Hokokuji bamboo forest during this trip because it closes at 4pm and started our lunch at 330pm. We bought a one-day ticket each for this trip and it was actually a bit waste of money because we didn't explore much. No sunset either, because the sky wasn't clear which was also the reason why we didn't stop by Enoshima.

Back to Tokyo via train. Settled our dinner at one of the restaurants at the underground mall in Shinjuku area. Unagi bento! Not bad for the price!! I mean, how bad can unagi be when you're in Japan right?

Purchased Bake Cheese Tarts too. What is Japan without their cheese tarts? And I love these so much!!! Unlike Singapore, the queue in Japan was like, erm. 5 minutes? One cheese tart for 200yen before tax. 真是好吃！

This was how we spent our 9th day in Japan! Video below was taken only in the museum.