Back from Tokyo!

ok...after many days of running around markets, train stations and using strange forms of english to communicate i'm finally back from tokyo...altogether me, my dad and my sis took more than 900 pictures, ate food, memorised the subway routes, ate more food, went grocery shopping, ate more food, visited shrines, ate more food, walked around their beautiful parks, ate MORE food, and ate food...yea you get it

5/12/08
the day of our flight to tokyo.. ok..here's the thing...if you know me...you'll know that i hate flying.. i absolutely loathe it...the turbulence, the air pressure pressing against my ears, the take offs, the landings, and most of all...THE FOOD..yea

anyway...we had an hour plus flight to Kota Kinabalu for our transit flight where we had to wait an hour for our six hour flight to NaritaKK airport

after arriving we checked into Elite-inn in Yushima, Tokyo

after checking in and getting settled down we went for our first dinner at a nearby soba place where we had tamago-yaki, sashimi, sushi and cold soba..yummm...

after dinner, went back to the apartment for a good nights sleep

6/12/08
next morning woke up, had breakfast and got on the subway to the outer tsukiji market (not the inner fish market)..don't expect lots of pictures of market stuff cause a lot of the sellers there don't allow photos to be taken of the stuff they're selling...evil..only managed to get this one blurred shot

anyway had lunch at sushi-zanmai...one of many restaurants of the same chain scattered around the market...food was really fresh i got the salmon donburi with ikura and salmon sashimi while my parents and sis had a chirashi-donafter that...we took the sub home and attended the christmas party the apartment manager was holding..the food the served was really good...roast beef, crackers, parma ham, fresh fruits and pizza...they even entertained with piano and clarinet performances by one really geng clarinet player...

after the party...we went out to explore the technology street that is akihabara...the sad part about akihabara is that all export versions meaning ones that use english or can be used outside japan are super expensive...way more expensive than over here...(so we didn't buy anything)...but all their local versions are dirt cheap..a nintendo wii japan version currently goes for RM900 in japan and includes wii sports/fit...the export version goes for about RM2000..yea..see what i mean

anyway...in akiba there's one thing you can't miss...large complexes floors above floors, rows upon rows of UFO catchers..if you don't know what that is this is one.

anyway...my sister decided to try her luck and guess what??!! we actually won something..hahahaha

that's the end of day 2 =D

will continue the rest of the trip tomorrow..