japan (061207-121207)

long overdue! but i enjoyed japan (:

first day: we met at the airport super late at night, got on the plane to sleep. haha. tried watching stardust but fell asleep halfway.

second day: immigration was funny, we had to take photos but it was like taking neoprints so my sis and i were quite amused. then we made our way to odaiba park, which is this shopping district thing. but the shops werent open so we just walked around. had some buffet for lunch then went to shop around that area before going back to odaiba park to see the shops when they are open 0.o hahah. headed for asakusa kannon temple and walked around the nearby namakise avenue. in case you're wondering why i sound like a guidebook, im checking the itinerary while typing this oops. then had dinner at the airport before getting on a domestic flight to osaka.

third day: universal studios in the morning, was quite fun! (: haha and it made us look forward to disneyland and the opening of universal studios in singapore yay! then we rode the bullet train to kyoto and visited kiyomizu temple. had to leave pretty soon cos the sky was turning dark and we had to make our way to awara, which is this hot spring region! first night in the hot spring, wasnt used to it. haha thankfully the people there were all strangers, with the exception of our tour guide. haha but after some time we were totally like okay whatever as if anyone's interested :D

fourth day: went to tojimbo to take photos of the rocks formed by erosion. haha. then we went to this pottery outlet where we mainly walked around and exclaimed at the cute owls. next to it was kagahan, which is described as a city of desserts. it was quite impressive la, haha and we all had fun trying the food there. the people were probably quite annoyed oops. went to kenrokuen in kanazawa, which is one of japan's greatest gardens but actually i dont really rmb what place that was shall ask my sis later. last stop of the day was shirakawa-go village, which had pretty cool houses! and we climbed up this hill thing! got to takayama, where we stayed the night.

fifth day: walked to this local market from the hotel, it was quite cool! there was free food everywhere too. okay now i sound like a freeloader but trust me, we didnt eat all that much :D then we visited ramen house to watch the process of making ramen and have a bowl of ramen! (: our tour guide brought us to this place where we could soak our feet in both a hot spring and a cold spring. haha it was quite cute watching the couples in the tour group playing together! then we visited this wasabi farm and i was tempted to buy wasabi peas but they can be found in singapore too -.-" like the exact same ones! okay fine its called export. whateverrrr. >< and finally we went towards the mt fuji region to view mt fuji, i think its quite cool how they all worship this mountain and it looks really different from different angles.

sixth day: DISNEYLAND DAY! (: enough said haha it was fun! (:

seventh day: went shopping in some shopping mall before heading back to the hotel to meet the rest of the group and go to the airport.. was quite sad to leave japan but at that point in time i really wanted to come back to see how raffles invites was progressing so haha.

yep! basically i had a good time there! but the cold weather is really scary haha. but singapore's still the best yay (:

k time to sleep blog about the past week tmr. seeya!