lets see..... second day was more of touring and sightseeing. visited lots of places in Tokyo, just that we found the day rather badly spent due to a bad choice of places....
Sunny! :D

first up, i took a picture of the view outside my hotel room as i never had a shot of it when it was daytime.


ok after that, we went to second floor for our complimentary breakfast! first floor was western style, second floor was japanese style! after all, the purpose of coming to Japan was to enjoy the food and indulge into the foreign culture, instead of eating western food.

uh....there is a little bacon as i saw it looked real good..... oo they even offered swordfishes, salmon and another fish of which i forgotten the name! the swordfish is da best! it is so juicy and the meat so tender! once you put in your mouth and bite, all the fish oil leaks out and =the tender meat chewing is just so comfortable! it was like heaven man! never eaten such a nice fish before! the other fishes were yummy too as they were tender, just that i feel the salmon was slightly overcooked.

this is the place of the restaurant, its more of the buffet kind. picture quality sucks quite badly, but too lazy to upload my mum's photos. her camera is so much better and i tend to walk while taking pictures, resulting them to be blur.....

the photos below are pics of my tickets! okok the first one is the 2 day pass for train rides, which allows me to ride on any JR train for free!! afterall i already paid for it before i went on the trip.

this is the card to my room! its no different from a credit card....the only difference is that there is no credit inside. O.o

took a little seaweed for fun! the packaging was sooo good! each packet had like 5 seaweeds? anyway, after i ate, i went outside to take a photo of the hotel name! yesterday was dark, so could not take any pictures.


after that, headed to the train station.... took train to Shibuya!



here are the pics of Shibuya!

thats the station! uh part of.....see the JR words there? thats the station!

walking about aimlessly.....just shopping.

still walking.....

found this place! its Shibuya 109, a shopping centre that sells all women stuffs and clothes. its like a haven for females


seriously i felt real bored there, not just bored but awkward and out-of-the place feeling. its like so different! FINALLY, i photo of myself! thats because most of the photos that my bro toook for me are defect..... T.T

this is my bro's famous pose, everywhere we went, whether shopping or sightseeing, he is always in this pose!

after that, we made our way to my dad's jeans shop. wait i mean a jeans shop that my dad was looking for!

hehe the bus is sooo cute! what if you put a sumo inside?.... O.o

walking....

still walking T.T

and walking....

bro was too tired! he wanted motivation: morning shot of coffee. see his face? he was like depressed from the walking. should have seen his face when the can of hot Wonda appeared out fromthe vending machine.

then we continued walking...

still cannot find the place!

notice how small the shop is?? its so tiny!!

found the main road.....

didnt know they have churches here!

*drool.....nice grand piano......love it man!

lols for smaller kids who cant use the original size....it works!!

seen before a macho Santa Claus?? for me, never.
we continued to walk and walk, took pictures from time to time.

just then, a strange looking building on the right caught my eye! thought that was my dad's jeans shop but i was wrong.

*lol build up tension first ah.....on the way, saw this tunnel that lead to a shop! thats how save space they are in japan man!

ironically, there was a carpark next to the tunnel.....

okok here is the building, and its huge....

this building belongs to Prada.....and it has about 7-8 floors? super high as each floor is rather tall, plus they have basement. impressive..... next building that was next to it is this!

uh the name is there.....for those who cant see (you gotta be blind), it says Cartier.

continued on the quest to find the "hidden shop"

lalala......


FINALLY, didnt find it. *demoralised
dad was like *the sky is falling, that kinda face. he loves jeans anyway.

still not wanting to give up after knowing the shop has been closed down as in they threw away the shop but the company still exists. anyway, we had no choice but to walk like mad again, even though we made tons of detours! one levis shop came into sight and dad was walking super fast. PS he was far ahead of us, a moment ago he was lagging behind.....



ok anyway we took a train and reached uh....Venus Fort. read up in the brochure and they said that the stop was interesting, mum colleagues said so to..... oo here are some of the pics that i took when in the train.....



reached venus fort at last, it was a loong journey, the route was not long, just that we had to walk alot in the train station plus we had to change train plus we had many flights of stairs to climb. that was the part that was so boring. then we reached venusfort.

was greeted by a gigantic ferris wheel.....

while walking there, saw the building! seriously it looks boring, after all what can you expect after having such a long ride.....

i was like OMG is the correct place~?! this cant be! its palette town.... T.T if the name was changed to "pallet town" instead, i would freak out.

took some pics inside the Venus Fort, looks like one of those resorts set up by Las Vegas Sands.


Ate at the nearby Macdonalds which charged us exorbidant prices, had no choice but to eat as there was no other place that sold food.....this was the first Macs that i have eaten in Japan! the prices was a very "nice" welcome. anyway, Macs was going green! like it when people go green, love the environment!

i was like wow at the sticker on the cashier counter. i was like this is a great idea, but cant you come up with more drastic plans??

ordered some food while bro sat down at the table and whipped out his PSP again. in the train ride, he was also playing.


as usual, i wanted to try something that was unique in japan, so idecided to order a EBI-Fillet
well its prawn fillet. Ebi=prawn fillet is obviously fillet. oh yeah the most important thing! its a burger....

opening it up......*drum rolling

TADA!!! *fireworks!!

*munch munch munch! look at the entire prawns inside the fillet!!!

then i saw some Studio Ghibli set up, its like that kinda exhibition you have.

then we looked around hoping to find some shop that we can shop in but to no avail, its so touristic and artificial! couldnt stand the place the slightlest bit.

lol took picture of the floor

the fountain was nice! just that after walking for a very long time, all we met was a dead end. we had to walk all the way back out. this was totally ridiculous.


thats the cork gun shooting, its in an arcade.... usually such arcades will be packed to the max with people crowding around, just that this was quiet and there was practically no one.

after that, we went to another exhibition hall that was the toyota car showcase. the palce was huge....and it was packed with cars!! seriously i got no idea how they survive, it is totally non profit. people dont even go there to buy cars, you cant?? plus they have simualtions for you and have some cars driving around....

PS this car was moving thus the picture was blur, it was really far away, though human size, i had to zoom in and take a pic of the moving car, so the pic is so blur!

went to the mega theater that was like a ride kinda thing where you hold onto the bars as they move you back and forth. it was very mild.....and not much of thrill, felt as though it was more of an advertising "movie" it was fun but it wasnt rough enough.



took pictures of some cars they had there......

this is actually stacks of different kinds of magazines?? never seen this in Singapore before....

anyway, left the place at last! took picture of the ferris wheel once more.... dont you think it looks like the sun??


then, we went on to another shopping mall.... T.T its called uh....seaside mall! i think, took this pic on the way there. the bridge at the back is called the rainbow bridge!


saw these ancient stuffs in the shopping mall, it was sooo much better sooo much more interesting plus they styled the mall into an old fashion way! they even had a huge theme park, which looked so much better than escape theme park!


on my way back, i saw this building with pink in colour blots, went closer and saw pink hearts! they were so cute!

i had to strain myself over the ledge just to take this blur picture.... T.T

then this is the zoomed in one. actually the previous one was also zoomed in, just that i went in a little only.

after a long and tiresome journey, i reached the station that leads us to our hotel! but before that, had to eat. where else but Sukiya!!! again....

eh.....ordered beef rice again! got no idea what is wrong with the photo?? blogger changed it to portrait for me>?


went back to the hotel and threw out the things that i got from today!


mum bought that, that is totoro, from studio ghibli, of which i bet you guys got no idea what is that.

a pack of sweets that i got from the cork gun shooting range, i pretended to blow and apparently this fell X.X not bad huh!

last one up, i got no idea how i got this, but i got it from the cork gun shooting too!

yeah thats all for the second day, by the time we found out about the shopping centre that sold interesting stuffs, they were closing....should not have gone to the Venus Fort! it was a total waste of time!

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