How I wish I could visit it again......
Three years ago, I went to Japan with my parents during the Christmas vacation.
I should say that's the best vacation I've ever had and a dream come true. I've got to visit many places, though unfortunately we didn't go to some famous shopping districts like Shibuya, Harajuku, Akihabara and the likes except Ginza though we literally just walk past the shops as it was still early in the morning and it's a high-class shopping districts for heaven's sake, I don't think we could afford to shop there ( - , - )
Especially the vacation is by tour and managed by travel agency, so we can't just go by ourselves.
On the first day, we visited Osaka's Universal Studio, the attraction is just ordinary but....the queue lines!!!!! It's extremeeeeemmely lonngggg, well no surprise there as it's Christmas XD and the bad thing was, it's raining that time so we got soaked by rain water whenever we need to move from one attraction to another.
Right after that, my memory is quite blur though, haha blame my mind for being so forgetful. I did remember some snippets that I consider memorable and interesting. I remember we visited China Town in Yokohama and eat Chinese food there.
We've also tried to visit mount Fuji but because the weather was not good we can only went up to the third level, if I'm not mistaken there's 8 or 9 level, I've forgotten. I remember during the journey, the tour guide who is an Indonesian, lived in Japan and married a Japanese man told us various stories about the forest around the area which is a common spot for those who committed suicide and the current trend of way to commit suicide and believe me, it's really ironic.
Then, we stayed at a traditional hotel, I can't say it's a ryokan, as the restaurant and the food is buffet style. Though the room is a tatami room and we slept on the futon. There's a bathhouse as well but oh well, we're really not used to take bath with other people so we just stayed on our room and take a stroll around the hotel. Curiously, they put decorations of the dolls which is usually put out during the Girl's Festival which is on March but still, I took pictures of it, haha
We've got to ride the Shinkansen too, which is really exciting. I don't know how to explain this but when we are inside, it's hard too tell whether we are on a train or an airplane as the journey is very.... smooth? It's not like we are riding a train, and when it came to a halt there's not a single movement. Maybe, the movement is extremely fast that we can't feel anything.
Another memorable visit, would be Tokyo Disney Sea and Disney Land, the Disney goods are really cute and it's ranging from kids to adults and there's too much choices that I can't decide which one to buy! We got to see the parade as well, and took lots of pictures.
When we visited Disneyland, it's New Year's Eve and the crowd of people was just amazing. There're even many people sleep in the parking lot! waiting for the fireworks attraction held in Disneyland which is only for those who bought the tickets. Well, for the attractions, honestly I can't remember much except for the haunted house which is based on the Haunted Mansion movie and Nightmare before Christmas. As for the ones in Disney Sea, the attractions are much more heart-racing like the ones based on Journey to The Center of the Earth when we ride the train for mining, wow. I forgot did I scream on that one.
Back on our hotel room, I watched Kouhaku Uta Gassen and the next day, we departed for our hometown T_T
If I am given another chance, I would like to visit Japan again during the spring season
The thing that I regretted until now is that, I didn't know a thing about JE when I visited Japan!!! and that time, it's the time when NEWS has re-united back as a group!! ~sigh~ I didn't watch Johnny's Countdown which is usually aired on TV when I could, how ironic T_T
This is a photo of me with my parents taken outside the restaurant in the hotel. As you can see, there's a view of the Mount Fuji behind us. Even though the sun is quite bright, in fact it's freezing cold especially when the wind blows right through us *shivers*
One irrelevant side story before this photo is taken, actually I didn't want to take the photo together with my parents as I can't stand the cold weather though after some coaxing from my father's part, I finally take part, unwillingly XD
Another photo in Disneyland. haha Now I regret why we didn't ask a more popular character to pose with us :D
Ugh, I was wearing like 3 layers of thick clothing which make me look puffy
I would like to upload some photos of the goods that I've bought while I was there but the internet is again slowing down again, so maybe the next post after this when the speed is back to normal.