Over the past week, I was in Japan for a week vacation with my mum. Absolutely amazing country, especially with the scenery, the people and just the overall experience. To me, the LONG flight was really worth it but I really can't imagine taking any flights exceeding more than 6 hours; tremendously torturous.
So anyways, I reached Narita International Airport at 4pm, and it took another 2 hours (?!) to reach our hotel at Shinjuku. For the entire trip, we stayed at Shinjuku Prince Hotel. Really clean, cozy and comfy rooms; makes you wanna lie in bed all day especially in the cold weather!! Anyways, this is like roughly how the room looks like?
Did I mention how cool the toilet seat was!? Maybe it was because I'm rather "sua-ku" in such technologies. The toilet seat had a "keep-warm" function, with other nifty stuffs like water-sprinkler(?) and what not. Its hard to describe but I remembered getting so amazed by it and was fiddling with it for a whole 15 minutes before my mum had to drag me out. Haha!!
Well, after that we had to try this Ramen that the taxi uncle recommended to us for dinner. We could communicate to him was that he was from Hong Kong(?) and he could speak both Cantonese and Japanese, pretty cool huh? Haha.
Doesn't that Ramen look absolutely DELICIOUS!? The Ramen was heavenly, can you imagine a bowl of hot tasty Ramen on a 5°C temperature? Both the soup and noodles were cooked to perfection and although it was like 700 yen ($11) a bowl, it was WORTH IT!! What's more they offered for second servings of noodles but I was simply too full. If you are in Tokyo and you do chance upon it, REALLY DO TRY IT!! I would absolutely recommend to everyone who is going to Tokyo!! ^^
After that we just had to explore the busy streets of Shinjuku. Brightly lit, bustling with people, the most awesome night experience there is. There is simply too much to describe through words alone....so here are some photos!!
Compared to the streets of Singapore, this is just speechlessly epic. Seriously, compare their pedestrian crossings to ours, ours is like beyond PUNY!!
And really there are a lot and I mean A LOT of karaoke lounges, slot machine(?) arcades and pubs/restaurants. The slot machines are pretty cool, the payouts are in balls, really small metallic balls instead of coins or money. And I guess they use that to exchange gifts? Can't imagine the people carrying trays of such balls home anyways. Haha!!
Apparently, the major departmental stores close at about 8pm? However, Shinjuku streets never seem to be "closed" at any time, I guess its like a perfect nightlife area for both tourists and Japanese themselves. Considering that I'm with my mum, I guess engaging in some wild nightlife activities seem entirely out of the question, so we decided to buy some stuff from the convenience store and headed back to the hotel.
Guess what I saw? Truthfully speaking, I am unsure what does this truck actually contain or what is it suppose to advertise!? Someone who understands Japanese, please do enlighten me on this one. Haha!
And so, this concludes the first day in wonderous Tokyo! Day 2 coming soon!! ((:
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