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Japan 2008: Day 08: May 06

07-May-08

ngaaaaaah. computer died this morning and my post that was saved as a txt file got erased, gotta write it all over again, pissing me off. anyways. this might be shorter than the others cause i lost a day :@ we woke up a bit earlier than usual cause we had to do one essential […]

Japan 2008: Day 07: May 05

05-May-08

onwards to mt fuji! (hakone area) figured out how to get there in the morning by JR lines. it’s not -tooooo- far away, but, yea. headed to tokyo station to take the shinkansen bullet train to odawara where we buy a hakone pass to travel around that area at no extra cost… there are several […]

Japan 2008: Day 06: May 04

04-May-08

odaiiiiiba. so in the morning we decided that we would take the special direct boat to odaiba from asakusa… only to be surprised by the long line-up and the tickets actually being sold out anyways – -; so we went up into the department store complex thingy to find food. we ended up on a […]

Japan 2008: Day 05: May 03

03-May-08

as you know, we woke up late after karaoking all night… since it was already pretty late, we decided to have lunch nearby, jumping into a soba & tempura shop close-by. it was pretty good! this place we had to remove our shoes and it was the kneel/cross-leg type of place which was the first […]

Japan 2008: Day 04: May 02

02-May-08

our main destination was ginza and area. leon started using his 2-week JR pass so when he went to exchange it, he was gone for like… a long time 😛 so we just sat there waiting for him to get back. we (michelle and i) are starting our 3-week tmr (today). we bought buns and […]

Japan 2008: Day 03: May 01

01-May-08

this time we woke up around 730… 😛 had breakfast in the small cafe beside our hostel it’s run by an old couple, was a really nice place! we decided to walk to Ueno station, and got severely sidetracked by Asakusa markets so we arrived at Ueno at noon. our feet are especially aching today… […]

Japan 2008: Day 02: April 30

30-Apr-08

woke up at like 630 (we slept pretty early the night before) apparently they turn off the wireless at 12. and on at 7. pretty crappy too. but they provide 4 pcs in the shared area upstairs. headed towards the edo-tokyo museum, south of us, we got a bit… lost, but eventually found it with […]

Japan 2008: Day 01: April 29 – flight & first night

29-Apr-08

no line ups at 9am apparently… lol got there -early- and started reading the chronicles of narnia, finished ‘the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe’ that in the middle of the flight. actually had to do some emergency POD work in the terminal, had lotsa time so it was okay air canada had movies and […]