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Tuesday, August 23, 2016

DAY 7 in TOKYO: Heading to Shibuya!

Day 7:
• Head to Shibuya and walk around Shibuya
• Lunch at Maidreamin's Digitized Cafe and Dining Bar
• Check-in airbnb apartment
• Explore Ginza
• Dinner at Vampire Café

And it's time to leave Odaiba and head to Shibuya!~ We pulled our luggage all the way to Tokyo Teleport station... Grand Pacific Le Daiba does provide shuttle bus to the train station but it starts rather late; at 11plus I think, but we want to arrive in Shibuya earlier! From Tokyo Teleport station, there is a direct train to Shibuya station!

When we arrived at Shibuya station, we were lost at the station.. >.< So confusing, so many people and we still have our luggage to pull around! Since it isn't the check in time for our Shibuya airbnb apartment, we left our luggage in the lockers at Shibuya station; after we finally found where the lockers are... There are limited large lockers but luckily we found 1 for my friend's larger luggage. I took a medium size for my luggage and we each took another small lockers for the rest of our barang barang.

Finally, it's time to explore Shibuya and have our breakfast!!
Shibuya!~~

Our breakfast at  Ichiran Shibuya (一蘭 渋谷店). For detailed directions & review, read >>here<<.
Store front

Located at basement

Entrance

Vending machine to buy your ramen

Order sheet to indicate your preference

Booth seat

Ramen and tea!

We managed to avoid the lunch crowd and get seated in Ichiran within a few minutes. It's our first time using vending machine to buy ramen and we were a bit confused at first :/ I like the booth seating though. You can even open up the partition between your friends! I really like Ichiran's broth; it's very rich and flavourful!

After lunch, we headed to Disney store; just looked around and didn't buy anything since we had our fill of Disney stores, but this Disney store has a nice design.

Store front

Pretty interior

We also took a Purikura at Adores game centre in Shibuya! :D

We also shopped at GU at Parco! We bought matching shirts! Just different in colour! :D After much shopping and walking, it's time to visit a maid cafe! Our first experience! :D Read >>here<< about a more detailed post on our dining experience in Maidreamin's Digitized Cafe and Dining Bar!

Down the stairs we go~

Interior of Maidreamin's

Omelette and rice

Rabbit parfait!

It is definitely a unique experience, but I think one visit to a maid cafe is enough for me! ;P After all, there target market is aimed towards guys!

Finally, it's time for our check-in time! We met our airbnb host to collect and make payment for our Ghibli and Doraemon museum tickets. Then it's time to take our luggage from the lockers and drag them to our apartment! I led the way wrongly at first though, didn't see the direction clearly enough since I was busy pulling my luggage, but the apartment is actually a short walking distance away from Shibuya station. There are lifts when needed as well. There are also a lot of drinks vending machine on our way to the apartment and these machines are used for my daily morning coffee ;P

Some photos of our airbnb apartment. Read >>here<< for my detailed accommodation reviews!
We were greeted by this picture once we opened the door

Shower and toilet are separated


Small kitchen area

TV and desk

Information book made by host

Towels and hairdryer provided

Small snacks given!

Our rest place for the next few days~

Finally, we don't need to pull our luggage around anymore!! After chilling a while, we travel to Ginza! I wanted to visit Itoya and stock up on my card-making materials! :D Itoya is a must-go place for people looking to buy crafts materials. Though not very cheap, the crafts items are of good quality and everything is arranged and displayed nicely.
Ginza at night

itoya!

It's time for dinner at Vampire cafe!! Next theme cafe during our trip! :) Read >>here<< for my detailed review of dining in Vampire cafe
Store front

Greeted by grim reapers >.<


Appetizers

Salad

Steak

Dessert
 Even the toilet is themed by the way. I was too creeped out to look into the mirror >.<

Bloody sink

And... that's the end of Day 7!
To Day 8!~

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

DAY 8 IN OSAKA: Shinsekai & Osaka Museum!

Sorry, gotten a bit lazy to update my blog as I was busy playing Story of Seasons on weekends! >.< Anyways, on to Day 8 in Japan!

Day 8:
• Travel to Sumiyoshi Taisha (We decided to sleep in instead! >.<)
• Visit Shitennoji Temple @ Tennoji
• Walk around Shinsekai
• Travel to Tenjimbashi
1.     Osaka Museum of Housing & Living 
2.     Tenjinbashi-suji Shopping Street
3.     Kema Sakuranomiya Park
• Head back to Dotonbori

Started the day to Shinsekai after sleeping in today! A new world! Shinsekai is well-known for their kushikatsu, also known as skewered fried food!
To Shinsekai!

Tsutenkaku Tower

Originally planned to eat at Gansokushikatsu Daruma, but the queue a bit long and the shop is small.. So we ate here instead: Kushikatsu-janjan  (串かつじゃんじゃん 新世界本店)! For directions and store details, click >>here<<
Store front


Menu



Melon soda


Fried kushikatsu set

Fried ice cream!

Fried desserts!

It was a satisfying and good meal! We walked and shopped around the stores in Shinsekai before heading to Osaka Museum of Housing & Living (大阪くらしの今昔館) to snap photos! The address 大阪くらしの今昔館, Japan, 〒530-0041 Osaka Prefecture, Osaka, 北区天神橋6丁目4−20. Alight at Tenjimbashisuji 6-chrome Station Exit 3, the museum is located on the 8th floor! You can rent kimono to take photos at 200yen for 30 minutes. There was a loooong queue for kimono rental when we were there. 
This kimono rental is different from the one we had in Kyoto of course, you can read about it >>here<<. The kimono is of low quality and they just put the kimono over your clothes. Since there were a lot of people that day, the design available for you to choose from is limited as well.

Some pictures of the museum below.

Osaka Musuem!

Tickets

"Sky" in the building







Kimono rental



Finally, it's time for lunch! Had sushi at 春駒. For directions and store details, click >>here<<

Store front





The sushi is fresh but I still prefer Endo Sushi's sushi! They put wasabi in the sushi as well, which I forgot to tell them not to put and nearly died eating one of the sushi *chokes* >.<

After that, we went to Kema Sakuranomiya Park to see more sakura! It had rained and the ground was covered with cherry blossoms!


Is this a patch of grass or cherry blossoms?


 We walked pass a family mart/ 7 eleven and bought ice cream again!
Pineapple & chocolate!

Still had some time before going back to our apartment, so we went to Dotonbori to do some shopping again! And we found a Disney store there! *Waves bye to my money*

The Disney characters riding the train

We saw this store previously which always had a long queue and we decided to buy one to try tonight. Since it's quite late already, the queue doesn't seem as long as when we had seen it previously.


It was literally melt-in-your-mouth good! Worth the hype and queue! We shared one and it was gone in minutes! Yummy! There are 2 stores at Dotonburi: PABLO(パブロ)心斎橋店 & PABLO 道頓堀店. 

And... that's the end of Day 8!