Back to work. Had lots of photos but I think I really need some time to load for FB. Used 2 cameras during the trip.. hence my set of photos were actually incomplete. Dear is now on the plane to korea on biz trip again... so I'll only be seeing him next mon.... and i think to get the pics from him, that'll be weeks.
Anyway, let me go back and talk about Japan trip..
Day 4: Dear went to work from morning til late evening. I wanted to go to explore Nagoya on my own.. but then the places that I wished to go, were not opened due to public holiday. Sianz. So the only thing I could do was to do shopping in Takashimaya, then got back to the room after lunch to enjoy a long nap and rot til dear was back from office... and then dinner with his bosses in the hotel's restaurant.
Day 5: Kyoto. Joined the Johnnie Hillwalker walking tour (covering 3km in 5 hours: walk and stop). Johnnie is a very old man and he was our english speaking guide.. Probably because he is old, I found that the explaination of some of the things repetitive, and boring. heh. But anyway, really appreciate the tiring tour, coz he took us to higashi honganji temple, some shindos and temples (and graveyard), some of the backstreets of kyoto (and geisha area) and into those traditional shops making paper fans, pottery etc. At night, we went walking around the shopping area in kyoto station and then back to the hotel to rest our tired feet.
Day 6: Went to Kyoto Imperial palace in the morning and realised that we couldnt get in unless we joined the guided tour, which was at 2pm. We signed up for the tour and then instead of wasting time waiting, we went to Kinkakuji temple for sight seeing and then back to the palace. After the guided tour, we took shinkansen to osaka, checked in and then at night, we went to HEP five, thinking of taking the red ferris wheel... to our disppointment, the ferris wheel was under renovation.. sigh... so looking at the time, we decided to rush to umeda sky building, took the lift to 173m above ground to enjoy cold wind and night view of Osaka. That's when KK went down on his knees once again, presenting me with a real rock, on his birthday. =)
Day 7: Universal Studio - with the Elmo theme, hello kitty and snoopy etc. No mascots going around.. sianz. so the only thing we did was to take pictures of the theme park. The rides were ok, except for the dream ride roller coaster that I didnt want to take. We took one jurassic park ride that made me felt like I was going to die. Haha. I guess I'm really old, cant take this kind of excitement rides anymore. Did enjoy those 4D shows... except that everything was in japanese with no subtitles and everyone was speaking japanese as well. Not tourist friendly. At night, we went to Hard rock cafe and had our first western dinner. Nice~! As Halloween was around the corner, everywhere got this spooky halloween decorations (including the theme park).. MJ's thriller MTV was up too!
Day 8: As usual, we started our day by visiting Osaka castle.. and it rained. We hanged around for a while before going to Osaka station to look for Fancl shop... and then walked around to get those souveniors and food for my family and friends.... we got our hands full and hence got back to the hotel, put our things down and rested a bit before going Dotombori - a place that looked like a shopping cum food district (but ex!) and we settled our dinner with the snowcrab steamboat thingy. NICE~!!
Day 9: Home sweet home. =)
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