山pi-lgrimage: the great japan adventure (TOKYO edition)
day 6
off to chiba
- packed up our luggages and lugged them through the shinkansen, tokyo metro to get to chiba, where we will stay for the remainder of our japan adventure
- saw destiny boots
- played with ami-oneesan's angels
- met cherrie-oneesan and her kids shina and yuuchan
- not much pictures here, we were busy playing with the kids to take any
day 7
nikko
- hopped on the subway to ueno where we transfered to the yamabiko shinkansen to utsonomiya where we transferred to the jr nikko line
- was extremely hungry when we got there so we stopped by the local bbq store to eat some japanese bbq
- proceeded to wait for the buses bound for the world heritage sites
- we were kinda late so we just went to the toshogu shrines.
- saw the temples, gold-leaf pressed and hand painted walls, the monkeys, and the gorgeous autumn scenery
-the monkeys!
- i just had to take a picture of the amazing autumn scenery in nikko
- on our way back we were on board the Max yamabiko which was a double decker shinkansen. how cool is that????
DAY 8
- left auntie pot with cherrie-oneesan, aironmelody and i went to tokyo. walked around waseda where gretel dropped her shawl.
- took the odawara line to get to the ramen shop
- and found with with no difficulty
- went home but were to tired so decided to board the bus to the condo.
- ended up riding the wrong bus and ended up in disneyland(people kept on asking us why we werent going to disney so i guess god said we just absolutely had to go there)
-took the same bus and alighted at the station where we started and ended up walking to the condo
day 9
- took the subway to PNB to change money. we ran out of cash!!!!
- subway again to asakusa, had fun shopping on the streets along nakamise-dori, had a blast eating by the foodstalls, took lots of pictures of flowers, sensoji temple, asakusa kannon
- omotesando
-auntie pot really wanted to look for the burberry blue label flagship store.. so after walking and walking... we finally found it...
- while waiting for auntie pot inside the gucci flagship store in omotesando
- subway to tokyo tower, took lots of pictures, went up to the viewing platform of the tower, then went up again to the higher viewing platform and saw tokyo by night(again, aironmelody did not join us)
- gretel lost her book
day 10
- had buffet lunch with cherrie-oneesan
- then bought umbrellas in the cute store in omotesando then attempted to look for aironmelody's lost book
day 11
- prepared for my suicide mission
- left the condo at 5am for our 9am flight. arrived in manila at 130pm got home at 330pm. took shower, reshuffled my luggage, left the house at 4, arrived in makati at 430, grabbed at quick bite at auntie cyn's house, then went back to the airport for my 9pm flight to jakarta, had the most horrible philippine airlines flight, arrived in jakarta 1am.