For the next 2 nights, we will be staying at Flexstay Inn Kiyosumi-Shirakawa, Tokyo. Liping had made bookings for this stay via the hotel website's prior to this trip. It was somehow cheaper on the hotel's website. We were not allowed to check in at the time we arrived, however, we were allowed to keep our luggages at the hotel's office while we went out and continue our mission for the day.
We had our breakfast at 7-11 before heading out to take the train to our next destination. i tried one of their onigiris (they have different flavours) and bought another thinking that i would need it afterwards. the coffee in 7-11 was nice too... we just need to purchase the cup, and go to the coffee machine to press some butttons, and tadaaa.. hot coffee is served! :)
Today's plan was 1st to head to Akihabara's Yodobashi Electronic's store to get a simcard for our mobile data. we'd decided to get this b-mobile visitor sim 1 GB plan, which cost us 3980 yen. More info here: http://www.bmobile.ne.jp/english/product.html our plan was to insert this sim card into one of our phones, and use it as a wifi hotspot, so we could share the data usage among each of us. At the end of the day, we're not sure how much of the 1 GB we'd used up, but the line was not bad and was able to connect and use at most of the places we went.
By the time we settled the simcard, it was over lunchtime, but we were not very hungry, so we stopped by the french bakery/cafe nextdoor for teatime. I just noticed that mocha was not so famous in Japan.. instead i saw alot of cafe-au-lait. i ordered 1 cafe-au-lait to try and it turned out to be something like latte. but they also have latte in their menu.. hmmm. nevermind, as long as it's coffee, im fine with it, haha :D
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| A picture with the buns we had that afternoon with our coffee, 2 melon buns (1 with cream, 1 no cream) and one cinnamon roll |
Our next stop was to go to Sunshine city at Ikebukuro, to get our Disneyland ticket :) the line was long in Disney store.. we got our number and was told that we needed to wait for 1.5 hours for our turn. but there was this app where we can check whether our turn is coming up or not, once we got our number, so we can hang around the shopping mall while we wait for our turn. So, we stopped by Pokemon centre, which was also in the same mall :) lots of Pikachu, and other pokemons which i was not so familiar of. they were all so cute anyway :P
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| Picture at Pokemon Centre, Sunshine City, Ikebukuro |
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| Our disney ticket for the day after tommorow 17 sept, we 'kiasu', so we bought tickets earlier |
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| I forgot the name of the restaurant, but this is 1 set-- mee and rice together, so filling |
anyway, we proceeded with our plan to Tokyo tower by taking a train from the nearest station --Higashi-Ikebukuro station.
We did not plan to go up Tokyo tower to see the view of Tokyo, so im not sure about the price. But it did look grand.
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| The setting inside the tower |
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| Outside the tower, there's this projection |
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| The lighted walkway to Tokyo tower |
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| The majestic Tokyo Tower at night |
Before reaching the hotel, we stopped by Family Mart to get a bit of something -- yogurt drink/ice cream/ chocolate/ junk food to munch or try out, if it's nice we can buy some back :) the thing is, they have so many types of convenience stores, 7-11 and Family Mart is just an example of it and the prices of the things they sell were quite reasonable too.. unlike the 7-11 here in Malaysia, where the things they sell are always more expensive :(
We went back to the hotel, settle the payments and checked in. When we wanted to get our bags, the hotel staffs told us that they already helped us placed our bags in the room. that was so nice of them!! :D
That's it for Day2 in Japan.
That's it for Day2 in Japan.
