東京日志 Ep6: Christmas Day in Odaiba

Dear diary,

I’ve composed 5 posts about Tokyo, and this – the sixth one, will be the final one.

My memories of it is not as vivid as when I crafted episode 1 on tokyo, and that’s also the reason why I have to quickly write this down…I must document as much details as  I can, for keeps.

It was Christmas Day I remember…and as planned, our agenda for the day is Odaiba (お台場), a large man made island in Tokyo.

Good Morning Shinjuku! Together with the morning crowd, we took the subway.

Weather was pretty good that day!

Finally, we arrived in Odaiba and bought a day-pass (¥800, approx. RM32), that can be used for unlimited train rides on the island.

It was quite worth it since we’ve already planned to spend the day in Odaiba.

Rainbow Bridge in the morning

Street musicians performing in the cold

Liberty Statue in Japan?!

Somehow I kinda appreciate futuristic/modern architectural design. Not like I know the construction metrics or what, but I’m just quite easily impressed by the overall structure…especially when it’s huge…and unusual….like this:

Fuji TV Station

We just chill at the seaside park since the weather was pretty mild that morning, maybe cos of the morning sunlight.

When it’s lunch time, we went to this Ramen Restaurant inside Aquacity, since we haven’t had any ramen this trip.

I’ve read about it in my Tokyo Guidebook. Its description sounded quite impressive, what 6 most famous chef under one roof bla bla bla.

But in fact, it just wasn’t that good. Very disappointed! Fam (short form for father mother) kept commenting on how they didn’t like it.

There’re 6 different chefs so maybe the other 5 are good.

But anyways what worth mentioning … is the ordering machine. In Japan, usually their ramen or udon restaurants are equipped with it.

Just need to order using the machine. Very efficient, not for first-timer though. We caused a long queue, so paiseh! Cos we can’t read the menu!

By the time we finish lunch and walk around for a bit, it’s already 4pm – sunset …. the thing i dislike about winter, always gets dark so early!

But the sunset view at the Seaside Park overlooking Rainbow Bridge was breathtakingly beautiful!

For this part, no words can describe, so I shall show you photos.

Turn every shot into a masterpiece

Me & my signature retarded smile

Couples at the bay. This photo was taken using wide screen aspect

Then we took the train to Venus Fort…

this mall has got a fake blue sky that looks very real…

Their Christmas decor was superb! Looks very high budget!

Light beams

Blossoms

Barbie Store! Very pink & girly.

Then I spotted some lovely earrings from this store called Rolianne…but quite pricey. Apparently they’re selling it online too.

I bought 2 pairs – one for myself and one for my dear sis…

The selected ones…I grabbed the pictures off their website.

Then we took a walk in History Garage, it’s a car museum that display vintage cars.

Everything there was very retro….

Initial D … vroom!

Toyota Showroom next! It’s so big that you can even test drive inside the showroom.

All the Japanese Toyotas come with a GPS system. Nice!

Pretending it’s mine.

Striking blue Lexus! Stylish!

Palette Town (Venus Fort is part of it) was quite crowded, very happening! Maybe because it’s Christmas Day.

Got some performance going on in the atrium. A man doing some (i feel it’s nothing impressive) stunts.

The Japaneses were so generous, contributing $ to him, giving away 1000 yen like our RM5 here, while the value is actually RM40+

After a lot of walking in Palette Town, we took the train back to Aquacity (where Rainbow Bridge was).

Wonder why’s it called “Rainbow Bridge”? I guess it’s because…

…of its rainbow colour lights at night.

There was some light show going on …

Rainbow Splash

Romantic Purple

Tokyo was so beautiful & all lighted up… because it’s Christmas Day I supposed.

After all the fun, we went back to our hotel and pack our bags…was really sad that we’ll be flying back the next day.

We actually planned to extend our stay because Tokyo was so fun so much to see. But the hotel was fully-booked and we failed to change the date of our return flight.

Oh well, sometimes less is more!

The next morning, we took the Airport Express from Shinjuku to Narita Airport. It’s freaking RM200+ per person.

There weren’t any cheaper alternatives, express coach is also more or less the same price. But we do not want to take risk in beating the morning traffic.

The train was quite comfy though … I slept a bit. >.<

Narita Airport

We had McD breakfast… it’s more or less the same as M’sian version.

Spacious Airport

Traveller

Then we begun the 6-hours journey back home, with JAL.

I love plane-rides! But it’s very important for me to have:

1. Ample leg space
2. Adjustable Seats
3. In-flight Entertainment
4. In-flight food
5. The list goes on

The food wasn’t very good!

But the Japanese chilled beer & in-flight entertainment were very good!

… So long, Japan!

It was really a nice & memorable trip… I enjoyed the winter very much. Really hope to revisit the city in future …

This marks -The End- of Japan Travelogue.