Japan 2013: Tokyo

Instead of doing a blog entry about each day of my trip, I'm gonna talk about it as somewhat of a whole. I went to Tokyo and Osaka so I'm going to split it up. 

It was my first time going to Tokyo. I've been to Tokyo to ride a bullet train to Osaka but never actually went to any of the places.  This time I was lucky because our plane was scheduled to arrive around 11pm and the deal for our plane ticket that we got was to stay at a hotel in Haneda airport for the night. I thought it would be kind of lame since it was a business hotel but it was very nice and cute in a way. It was pretty small but we each had our own beds and the vending machines were very close to our rooms.

This picture doesn't really show how nice it was lol

In the morning, we ate at one of the shops in the hotel. There were a lot of shops and a mall but I sadly didn't get to look at them. Since I wasn't very hungry I had a yogurt drink. It was pretty good :) 

 Then, we just hung around there since they had wifi! It was impossible to find a place that actually had wi-fi in Japan. Even if a store has wifi, they won't let you use it if you don't have a contract with a certain phone company in Japan. But in the airport, we still had to register for something to use the wifi. 

On the way there, the station that we had to ride the monorail at was Pokemon themed :) 

 After we ate, we decided to leave a little early to Tokyo Station. We had to meet up with one of my mom's friends at around 11:00am so when we went there, we just looked at the stores while getting lost on the way there lol. While we outside looking for something to do, we heard a tourist saying that there is a section called Okashi land. We ended up going there and we bought some snacks that were just made.

 I got the freshly made Jagarikos! It was pretty good but I really liked the one my brother ordered which was like this chocolate dipped chips. It had this salty but sweet taste and the ice cream was awesome! And I took a picture of the menu. 

 

 We also looked around the character shops. They had stores like the JUMP shop, Hello Kitty, NTV, Fuji TV, TV Tokyo etc. I didn't buy anything from those shops but they were interesting to look at. 

When we met up with my mom's friend, we first went to eat some ramen. We went to this section that had a whole bunch of ramen places and there was even one that had a huge line which I regret not going because I heard it's a pretty famous place. Instead we went into one which didn't have a whole bunch of people. 

I ordered a Tsukemen which I had for the first time. Honestly, Tsukemen isn't really my thing. I honestly prefer ramen.

After that, we headed to Akihabara. I've always been wanting to go to Akihabara because of the fact it has things both me and my brother likes. 

 It honestly wasn't too anime-ish but I guess since Akihabara was mainly known for the electronics, I guess that's why. We first went into a card game shop. I waited for my brother there. Then we went to the Hello Project Store! I have been wanting to go there for 2 years and I finally did! :) It was very spacey and there weren't many people. One of the things I didn't really like though was the amount of time I had to wait to get my order. The people in front me would buy like 100 photos so it would take forever for the staff to find the photos. Also I had to line-up again because I didn't realize that the photos I chose were sold out. But there were only 2 staff so I can't really blame the staff. After being in the Hello Project Shop for maybe over an hour, we had Taiyaki.

                                                     I got the anko one! It was so good! 

We also went to some electronic shops and Don Quijote. It was my first time going to Don Quijote and it was pretty interesting. Since we went to the one in Akihabara, there were a lot of AKB48 things. I didn't take any pictures of it though. 

Since we were tired we went to a Saizeriya which is a Italian chain family restaurant. I never been there before so I have always been curious about it. I got a pineapple ice thing lol. 

 After that, we went to Animate. It was huge! I didn't look at the whole store because there were so many floors. And because it was getting dark, we decided to part with my mom's friend and go to Osaka. 

That is it for this blog post! I will be posting pictures of what I got at Japan and I will also write about my trip to Osaka so please look forward to that! :D