Today is the last day of our first leg in Tokyo! next stop, Takayama! lets see....its a rather 'ulu' place, very empty just like a dead town as it is in the outskirts! mum told us to expect something really old and traditional. since today was also the last day in hotel Metropolitan, we decided to try out the western food!

oh yeah its sunny today as usual.

haiz blogger again same problem. there is alot more food in the western dining area, at least 2 times more! but the food is all western....i feel that the food was very commercialised so i just took some food to eat and thats all. the food wasn't that excellent or what, just normal.

hehe this is not sausage, its cheese! i loved the cheese!

after eating and checking out, we took a train to the Shinkansen Line, the rapid express train that would bring us to different cities i remeber we had to go to some train station and change trains later on.....

unfortunately, we were stuck in the morning working crowd, look at how squished up we were with the people in the train! imagine us with the bulky luggage, it was very troublesome for us.


this is the Shinkansen Station! eh? no. thats the train station, from there all we had to dowas walk over to another gate to change train stations.

took some pics of the train station platform!

train's not here yet! time to take more pictures!


oo this is our train! its no difference from a bullet train, after all its supposed to take us from city to city!

oo see those in pink>? they are the train cleaners. took a video of them cleaning super fast and changing the chairs the other way round as the train had to go backwards. but apparently i lost the video.... T.T


took many pictures on board the shinkansen, these are some of them!


I also noticed that it has started to become farmlands after farmlands, no more buildings left already.

After a super long ride like 2hours, we finally reached the train station that we are supposed to alight to change train, the train was soo different. i mean like duh, changing from a rapid express train to a conventional train is a big difference, plus its a train that circulates around the lonely places, so yeah its gonna be old?

thats our train! once in the train, we took out our lunch to eat! we didnt buy any bento sets or whatsoever, so we just took snacks! first up, peanut butter bread! my aunt reccomended this, she says its good....

hehehe look at the peanut butter bread! so nicely packed! wondering how much peanut butter is inside!

waaa! so much! X.X the peanut butter can practically splurt out when you squeeze the middle! best peanut butter bread ever!

this is onigiri! its a japanese rice 'ball' just that it is in traingular shape! doesnt taste that fantastic, it only tastes normal?

anyway i took more pics on the train, enjoy! :D








oo this is the Hokkaido bun! uh that starange shape in the middle is the picture of Hokkaido? like the outline of the entire place..... its actually cheese bread and the rbead is more of the cake type, just that it is fluffy! its just cheese flavoured, which means there is no slices of cheese in it.

ok back to the more photos taken during the long train ride.





oh yeah...as the train got further and as it reaches train stations, it gets shorter and shorter as different trains split up to different places.



Finally again! reached Takayama! should have seen bro's face man! he was so depressed. he was like is the hotel going to have a TV?

this photo was taken just outside the train station!

cool! they have directions on the floor for you!

there's more! just that i couldnt bother to take every single one of them at each junction.

walked for approximately 15 mins before we reacehd the hotel.

took some pics just as i walked down the never ending road.....


bro wanted to try lkeading, so we passed him the map. he was like "where are we?" and later on "oh! here!" then he led us all the way to some place.

as i walked, i took more pictures!



oo this is where we reached our hotel!

just so happen, we met the hotel staff and he helped us to carry the baggage up the hill!

this is like the lobby, just that they do not have a lift, the hotel is just 2 storeies high and they have shared bathrooms, which meant in our room, there is no toilet. trying it out for the first time and the other hotels will be more or less the same.


this photo is taken just outside the hotel room! its more of a house, so its quite tiny, makes you feel at home! hehe there was no one else but us!

our hotel room has 2 windows as it is the corner room!

this is the view from the first window......

...and the second!

PS thats the toilet in case you dont know....bathroom is on first floor.

ok we left the hotel as we wanted tio explore more of Takayama, just before it turns pitch dark!

thats the front door of the hotel! the people here are soo friendly!!

i didnt know even though this town has only old people and kindergarden children, they actually have a modernised street? so unusual from the quiet lanes and dark roads.

we decided to walk around the area as it looks so much brighter so we expected that road to be more lively? apparently it was just as dead. walked into the supermarket and got some food! its so much colder here compared to tokyo!


eating....oops cant see the food!

uh... so little food left....more food!! more food!!


thats prawn, fried prawn. gee the prawns here are huge..... >.<

thats fish! fried fish...its one huge fish! not that huge


on the way back, too pictures of the scenery close to the river! wow i was freezing all thanks to the wind!

hmm returned back to hotel and can you believe it? dad actually opened up more instant noodles! he said those food earlier on was tea break! T.T

well the rest of the night was spent watching TV (luckily the hotel has a TV) and mum used her laptop to backup pictures! Played my PSP, backed up my photos, watched funny japanese shows and soon, it was goodnight!

Labels: 21 days, fourth day, Holiday 2008, hotel metropolitan, Japan, supermarket, takayama, Tokyo