Tokyo 21 Dec '14

[justfever]

After enjoying free breakfast from our hostel in Yokohama that morning, we left for Kawagoe. Yeah, from Yokohama to Kawagoe is quite a length of a journey. This time we have to meet with another friend of my friend right in Kawagoe station. It was my first time meeting her, Yoshie-san and her senpai in university, Morita-san. I guess it was their first time in Kawagoe too (?) We have to find coin lockers to put my friend luggage and my omiyage from Yokohama then looking for a kaiten sushi shop to answer the wailing stomach (already! haha). There's no Sushiro nearby but we found a cheap one in the atre mall right in front of the station. Almost everything is 100 yen (+tax ofc) but as my friend said the choices are not as wide as Sushiro. But well, we haven't eat sushi ever since we're in Japan, so it's fine.

Mr. Donut is everywhere here!

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Yay! Finally sushi! Sushi in our town here is expensive and the ingredients are different so we're pretty excited to try. My first choice is no other than ikura! Ikura on the sushi here is small, nothing can be compared with ikura in Japan, haha. Next is uni, because we simply don't eat uni back home huh. Too bad the unagi was not available that time, I want to eat unagi so much ><. Aside from that I only got myself orange juice. You see, what's great about Japan is that you can always get free drink like ocha or water from the restaurant. But if it's your first time eating uni like me, maybe you need something to rinse your mouth... like lemon water or juice. Yep yep, for me uni tastes very unique and it's not a common taste for my tongue XP. On the other side, ikura is incredible!!! Umai!!! Sugoku oishii! Ahaha. Ikura is juicy and it tastes like some fruit with some soury flavor in it, combined with wasabi and shoyu it's just perfect! I declare myself as a fan of ikura then, hehe.

Sushi done and we're heading to the old town of Kawagoe. For this, we have to ride a bus from the station. I didn't remember how much but I guess I was using my Suica for that. Kawagoe is totally an old town but the one that still bustling with life. I saw a lot of foreign tourists (as well as the local one) so I think it must be a popular spot. Basically it was filled with shrine and a lot of old shops. Even the post office looks old (but interesting). I didn't buy much but I think I've spent my money for gold stuffs: yuzumitsu (honey with the flavor of yuzu, japanese citrus) and a bunch of postcard for only 1000 yen.

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The shrine is for those who ask for better eyesight, I heard.

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Found this by accident! Apparently the dango shop is featured in Mago Mago Arashi, the jouka machi section? I didn't think we even find something Arashi-related here, miracle much? There's even Kokubun! Well, as expected!

Didn't buy the dango because I'm already full with sushi and sweet potatoes.

Spend quite some times inside a shop and when I came out, suddenly they appeared.

Ahaha, everyone's of course taking picture a lot of them. Shortly after we left to pick up our luggage in Minamisenju then headed to Shin Okubo and out to Shibuya for Arashi karoke party! Too bad it took quite some times so we're arrived late (plus my cellphone is dead!) to meet with Nat nathaxpen, Fatma raatkerani, Nicole skyemaxwell (Nicole, is that u?) and friends. When we reached Shibuya they already finished visiting Satoko's crepe shop featured in Shiyagare (when Ohno is in disguise) also took purikura at the game center next to it. So we quickly went for karaoke in utahiroba. It was a blast! Nat was also with her friend, Taraneh and they said that there's no karaoke rents in Sweden! Wow, that's a surprise for me. Even here in my hometown we have many karaoke rooms although the jpop collection isn't that much (but Arashi songs are abundant, fortunately!). Fatma had to leave early since she lived in Chiba and she need to catch the train. Two hours passed by in a flash and we have to part our ways there. Thank you girls! Hope we could meet again next time~

Ticket shop's display in Shibuya: Morita Go's Buenos Aires Gozen Reiji, Kanjani8's Kanjanism Tour, Arashi's Live The Digitalian Tour, and more.
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We didn't have another plan that night, so we decided to find the Satoko crepe shop and take purikura. It's not hard to find ('though we took detour), sadly the crepe shop was already closed. Not the game center! The game center is on the right side of the crepe shop (2 shops away I guess?) and it has a big "ADORES" neons on the front, so you can easily find it. Took a very creepy purikura for the three of us, it's only costs 400 yen. There's a girl who's kindly helping us and explained how it works and even offered us to take ours first! Nice girl~ It's getting late so we left Shibuya for our hostel in Shin Okubo. Good work, feet!