Japan part 1
Waw it's been over than a month since I came to Japan, and yeah, many thing happened~
Living in Japan is not as harsh as what I expected before, but yet it's still hard.
I'm forced to use English and Japanese everyday because there's nobody came to the campus from Indonesia except me, at least for now. But thinking about the positive side, with that case there's no other way than improving my Japanese and English speaking and listening skills. X3
Most of my hangout friends now came from China (I don't know why but everytime I wanted to type 'China', my fingers always mistyped it as 'Chinen', and it happened this time too that I have to erase it and type 'China' again, just to had my fingers slipped once again and made 'Chinen' instead =_____=)
Okay, now about my actual post.
What I want to post this time is my trip. If you speak about getting abroad, it will lead to something called 'ryokou' deshou? XDD
Actually I had so maaaanyyy photos of my trip, but I know I can't post it all here. =_=
1) Shinjuku-Meiji Jinguu
On the first week, I went to Shinjuku.
The station was soooo crowded, and it's said that it's the busiest station in Japan. It was a huge station with people everywhere, so you have to watch your step and not to lost of sight, or else you'd became a real stray child. =_=
I just followed my friends wherever they go, and voila, I arrived at a kind of department store.
It's full of electronic devices, and we didn't spend much time here because we straightly walk to Meiji Jinguu. It's a popular shrine in Tokyo, and also very popular among tourist. I was soooo lucky, that I was able to see two different couples having their wedding ceremonies there!!!! XDD
The ceremonies looked sooo beautiful, and I felt soo happy to be able to see this once again. The first time I saw this was 4 years ago when I came for a trip in Tokyo. =)
Here, I didn't pray or anything, but just enjoyed the scenery offered here. Meiji Jinguu indeed is a very nice place, and what I loved is the long way we have to take if we wanted to go to the shrine from the main gate.
It gave me a sense of calmness, somehow.. X)
Departing from Meiji Jinguu, we walked to Shinjuku Park. But!!!
Look at whom I met in the middle of our journey! XDDD I had to collect my courage to be able to ask them to take a photo together. LOL
And near this street, we met a kind of parade, and it turned out to be a MATSURI!
What kind exactly this matsuri was, I didn't really remember, unfortunately T^T blame my poor brain! but I'm sure it's called Aoyama Matsuri XD
But surely, everyone here was doing their best to lift it, because it was soo heavy. (><) there were many people participated here, including children (of course they just walked beside it), so they could just changing shift with the other. X)
After it, unfortunately we came on the wrong hour, because the Shinjuku Park was already closed when we arrived there. So we decided to take a walk to a place called Yasukuni Temple. There, I didn't take any photo, because there are many sad stories happened between the war of China and Japan buried there, so we thought that taking a picture like it was a kind of tourism destination is really impolite. (><)
Yeah, that's all for the first one..
2) Ueno Zoo, Asakusa, Tokyo Skytree
On the third week, we went to see... PANDA! XD
that was my first time seeing that cute animal, so I really prepared my camera. LOL This time, my Indonesian friend who's living in Kanagawa went with us! XDD Finally I had a companion! *slapped*
Ueno Park is so big, and Ueno Zoo is located inside it. There is also a lake inside it, but from my opinion, it's not as beautiful as what I expected it to be. (><) so let's skip it and go straightly to the panda *kicked* XD
MY! FIRST! PANDA!!!
I don't want to talk about the other animals.. skip the naughty polar bears, for letting me seeing just their butts =___=
There are two panda inside the glass rooms, three hinadan* look-like line, but there are hundreds people in the queue. =_____=
we had to take the picture while walking like a crab.. =_= but really, it's worth seeing!!
Let's move to the next photo.
It's Asakusa and Tokyo Skytree..
They are also a popular tourism spot, especially Asakusa, that there were sooooooo many people there, and you had to be very careful if suddenly someone behind you pressed his/her arms to your back. =_= it happened to me and my friends, that we could do nothing because it was the way tooo crowd. The popular one from Asakusa is that there are many shops those called by 'Nakamise'. First, you'll enter the main gate *which is now being reconstructed* called 'Kaminari-mon', and you'll go through the Nakamise to get into the shrine. =)
We took a rest there for some hours, and we tried some cookies. I tried banana choco, but it wasn't sweet. =.="
For the last, we went to Tokyo Skytree.. It is located in a 'mall'-like building, which is also contained an aquarium called Sumida Aquarium. We prefer to watch it from afar or from the outside and not entering it for real, because the ticket is too expensive for us. T^T
But it was the best for me. In my opinion, the tower is more beautiful when you saw it from afar, of course. Moreover, we saw it at night, so we could see beautiful lights sparked from the tower and from the boats on the river where we saw that tower. X3
Okay, I think it's enough for now, because I don't think lj will allow me to post more writing than this in just a post.. =.=
for the one who want to see more photos, you can see it from my facebook yo. XDDD ohohoho
Maybe next time I'll post about other things too, but now I'm feeling sleepy, so I have to go offline. *whacked*
XDDDDD
*hinadan = the stairs-alike rack for the doll girls put in their home in the Hina Matsuri