Tokyo Trip Day 1 Shinjuku, Harajuku and Shibuya

After arrival at Narita, we took Skyliner to Nippori and change 1 station to Uguisudani station to reach our hotel. It took about 5 minutes on foot from Uguisudani station to Hotel.

In front of Skyliner

We will take Skyliner heading towards Ueno

Skyliner arrived!

This is a view from Uguisudani station. We can see the train tracks and sometimes high speed train arrived or dashed over the mid-lane.

Our favourite eating house, Fuji Soba, which is just a stone throw distant away from our hotel.

There were other eating houses around too. 

We would need to walk this bridge to get up and down from the lower road to the train station.

Subway arriving and leaving.

This is Uguisudani station

Buildings around Shinjuku area. We are at Shinjuku station.

Green public telephones

Meiji Jinggu

The Tori gate outside Meiji Jinggu in Harajuku

Only KL and me went in to "explore" the park, just walking a section to enjoy the last season of leftover red maple leaves before the real winter period kicks in.

I think there were some 3-5-7 children day blessing that day in the temple, it was a Sunday. Girls were dressed in cute and pretty kimono.

Harajuku area in front of the Meiji Jinggu

A closer look at Harajuku area in front of the Meiji Jinggu

Harajuku station, the outside looks petite but neat right?

Harajuku station, was wishing to see young girls dressed like lollita with pink wigs, but I did see some girls dress in School Uniform (duh,on a Sunday) and according to what I knew, it was another kind of dressing culture.

The girl in black was dress in lollita fashion.

Famous Takeshita Street where the youngsters love to visit on Sunday. Our hearts thus became younger when we joined the crowd. Did you see someone's face on the TV banner?

Come, join the crowd, they will sweep you in.

Famous crepe stall, there was a long queue, so we followed the crowd, we queued too!

Long awaited Crepe. Ahem... IMO tasted good but a bit too costly with that amount of ice cream in it.

I wanted to recommend this. The Colombin Harajuku Roll. Abit costly, but IMO, well worthed your penny. I loved the cream inside, so probably it was a personal preference.

Look lost? No we were heading to Kiddyland, but when we reached the shop, it was so packed!!! Probably people were getting Xmas presents for their kids, so we dare not enter in case we were stuck inside. We skipped Kiddyland reluctantly.

We headed to Shibuya by walk. Oh beautiful crystal!

Nah, the "Crystal".

Walking towards Shibuya. It was only 2.30pm SG time, but looked like dusk. The sun will set early. Remember our watch which pointed to 2.30pm was an hour ahead in JP (ie. 3.30pm). We just landed and not yet adjust our watch.

Walk and more walk, and we were into some columns of streets, We tried to locate a "Park" said on the map, in order to turn out of the street to reach Shibuya, but we could not locate the "Park". Guess what, the "Park" turned out to be a small kids play area in the middle of a road.

Rose seen at the "Park",

Maple leaf at the "Park".

Finally reached Shibuya, nice flowers and plant seen by the roadside.

Some campaign, so crowded.

Pavilion. Nice place at Shibuya, but we were not into high-end dining.

Nanbantei, I used to work for this company as a Part Time waitress in SG. Yes it's still around, in Far East, next to Goodwood Park.

Shibuya Crossing. So many Zebra Crossing, cross where? Observe first, when the traffic light turned green the 2nd time. follow the crowd.

After crossing, walk into a small lane with many lanterms, at the end of the road, turned right. Just below the highway, there was a nice Soba shop, had our dinner there, Japan time @ 4.30pm (3.30pm SG time, not feeling that hungry).

Already dark at night, 5.10pm at Japan time (4.10pm SG time)

Guess who? Hachiko, the loyal dog guarding at Shibuya Station

Looking at Pavilion, the hugh TV keep showing food! Feeling hungry!

Shibuya Crossing. Anyhow cross lah! Luan and confuse, just follow the crowd.

This blog shares pictures of our family in Shinjuku, Harajuku and Shibuya on the first day of touched down in Narita AP.

Tokyo Trip Day 3 Odaiba in the evening

From Asakusa, we took the subway to Shinbashi station which we then glanced around Shinbashi without wandering much though. We then headed for Yurikamome (a Seagull logo as you can see one of my picture), which the train will bring you to Odaiba, a refilled land.

The train will cross the famous Rainbow Bridge, after which you can choose to alight at any of the station in Odaiba.

As we arrived almost at 3pm (the sun was going to set soon that day due to Dec period). we decided to alight at AquaCity where we could see some scenic icons (and that was all we could do).
((Next time if we will to come back to Tokyo again, we will allocate 1 whole day for Odaiba visiting.))

We were just in time for sunset that day. Shortly after we alighted and walk to the square near AquaCity, we were able to see the fireball going down behind Nikko Hotel. At that moment, we also took some nice pictures of FujiTV Building (the one with round globe which looks like some
satellite station, very hi-tech I would say) on the backdrop. When night fell, the building displayed a hugh Christmas tree on the surface of the building itself. Christmas songs such as White Christmas, Winter Wonderland etc.. were heard at the park, The mood of Christmas set in on us early (even though it was only 3 Dec), I thought I was romancing in Paris...

Perhaps it was better to take the pictures of Rainbow Bridge, Tokyo Tower and the Statue of Liberty (All in1) at dusk and before the night set in. Reason because we do not have tripod for night shots. We were cold and our hands were shivering so badly.

We decided to hide into AquaCity Building for some warm. We ate Burger King despite being in Japan. We ordered 2 burgers for the kids and some fries and hot drinks. We recki around Daiso. It was comparatively wise, cheaper than SG because everythings were ¥100 (with tax ¥107). We saw
many familiar products and we grabbed some stationaries. Can you imagine my husband grabbing few wraps of black sticky tapes just because they were cheaper there. We also got things like pens and files to add weight to luggage (haha).. very odd.. duh..

Outside became colder, the kids had their chilled Rebina brought from SG without the need to add ice. We deicded to return to Tokyo land.

We visited Ginza awhile since we were there. Walked around the streets and recki their combini shop (convenience shop) for some onigiri and drinks. We then decided to go back to the hotel.

We had our dinner just a stone throw away from our hotel. We like this small eating house very much. Not only was the location convenient, the food were cheap and tasty. We love the Fuji soba and Katsudon. The portion were just nice. It was run by an ojiisan. He run the cafe and cooked everything all by himself. Just insert your Yen and get the tickets outside the shop. Then hand it to the ojiisan at the counter. Sit and wait for your order. When it's ready, he will shout your order and you will self service your food to your seat. Get your own cup of warm water at the order area, it's free. After your meal, return your own tray please, at the returning bay.

My blog continues for Day 4 where we spend our next day at Tsujiki Fish Market in the not-so-early morning.