Wednesday, January 03, 2007: Japan 24th-31st dec (Day 2)
Day 2, 25th dec. Hilton Hotel. Narita International Airport. Narita train station. Tokyo. Shibuya.
Super early sunrise~~ 5am plus and the sun is shinning through the curtains.. But couldnt be bothered, was so tired, went back to sleep until 7.30 am. Wash up and took a hotel shuttle bus to Narita Airport fo our breakfast. Wow! I love the restaurant man!! I really do lo! Their restaurant is divided into non smokers zone and smokers zone without any barrier to block the smoke from diffusing from the smokers zone into the non smokers zone. And I'm practially eating my beef udon with smoke~~ Nice man!!
Beef Udon
After that smoked breakfast, we took a bus to the Narita Train Station and we bought a 5 day trip east railyway 'passport'. Well, it cost 16k yen,about S$213. Its a bit expensive, but it will definitely be cheaper if u buy the standard tix which will cost like 4k-5k yen (S$53) travelling from Narita to Tokyo. And also we are going to travel a lot by train during this trip.

The untimale 16k yen 5 days travel pass

The Narita Express ( from nartia to tokyo, ueon, blah blah )

Inside the train
Thats the inside of the train, there will be a lady with a push cart going around selling food (Its not cheap duh~)
O well, they say the train is rapid, express blah blah, but it still took us 1hr plus to reach Tokyo from Narita. And the train is VERY STUFFY!!! They thought its winter so the air con is switched off, but can they kindly turn on the FAN MODE!!! its bloody suffy lah!! Thats the only time i sweat in Jap, thats in the TRAINS!

The wonderful, complicated, messy, colourful Tokyo city railway line

If you are a 1st timer to Japan, U will die staring at the map and finding the destination you want to go. ITS SO SO SO MESSY!! Over 8 railway lines, think over 100stations ba..

After we reached Tokyo, we went to this Lei Men. Its a shopping street inside, but at the end of the street is a temple. Didnt bought much things inside the street.


Lei Men

The shopping street

Inside the temple

After the temple, we took a subway to shibuya!! Shibuya is basically a shopping paradise. Lots of shopping building, deparments buildings blah blah...


Shibuya cross junction
Our target today is Shibuya 109, a shopping complex. Its a 9 storeys pure full of FEMALE lastest fashion stuffs! Trash our singapore shopping malls! Then we went to Shibuya 109-2. Well, they say Shibuya 109-2 sells men stuffs, but haiz... it has only around 4 floors of men's clothings etc and mixed with 3 floors of female stuffs.. There are just limited Male fashion things lah...

Shibuya 109-2


Shibuya 109


More buildings!

And after the window shopping at Shibuya, took our narita express back to narita. Hehe, I took a pic of the male toilet in the train.

The male toilet




11:11 AM; Mountain <3 Ninja
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