Travel: Tokyo, Japan - Day 2 part 1

31st January 2011

We overslept (lah sangat~) on our 2nd day in Tokyo. We aimed to get going after Subuh prayer (lol), but our 'short nap'  turned out to be a long one afterwards. So at 9.00 am or so, we hurriedly get ourselves ready but was being told by Tshee that it was advisable to start sightseeing from 11.00 am. So what to do when you're all geared up so early in the morning? Jalan-jalan around the neighbourhood lah! :D

Twinkle Plaza

Tshee's Twinkle Plaza (her cute apartment plaza) is situated in Komone, Itabashi-ku. The neighbourhood was so quiet and serene in the morning. So we strolled for a few minutes until we arrived at the main road where a few rows of shops were visible. 7-Eleven, supermarket, Mazda Car Rental,   Fiat / Alpha Romeo showroom. We were pretty much clueless on where to head to and last thing we knew after a few moments of fooling around with our cameras, we were already in the neighbourhood supermarket.

We spotted some fresh strawberries, Meiji chocolates and Shin Chan's (lol) sweet potatoes so we decided to buy those. The funny thing is, we went around the floor trying to locate the cashier counter but we couldn't find one. We tried asking the person working there but the language barrier was taking its toll on us. We even had to suppressed our laughter when Ayu tried to pull her purse out from her jacket (which looks more like she's pulling out a gun out of it). We had to show her our money and it was later that she signaled that we should pay upstairs. Again, it was kinda awkward when we were paying because apparently we didn't came prepared with a shopping bag with us, while everyone else were stuffing their stuffs into their own shopping bag.

The strawberries are so good that I still miss them up to this day *_____*

 Anyway, after sightseeing around the neighbourhood, we were greeted with Tshee's delicious nasi goreng (yes!) once we got home. We owe Tshee and her housemates a lot since we had to worry less about finding halal food when we were there. Thank you girls <3 nbsp="" p="">
Tshee brought us to Ueno. We did a little of shopping and then head to Ueno Koen (Park).

Shops in the street somewhere in Ueno

Ueno Park

 Then we head to Asakusa, where Asakusa Temple and Nakamise shopping Arcade are situated. The place was lively and the shops, left and right are absolutely captivating. We decided to have ice-creams and it was rather my first experience to be told to eat the ice-cream in the shop and only after we threw away the cone-wrapping into the shop's dustbin that we get to leave. lol. Cleanliness is key, here! They simply don't want people to litter.

Nakamise Shopping Arcade

Ice-cream in winter sounds good to me

If you wish to buy souvenirs, I'd suggest to buy them here. There are a lot of souvenirs to be chosen here, varying from key-chains, fridge magnets to food, even. Oh, if you even get to this place, please never forget to have 'age-manju'. Those age-manju (deep friend manju) came with various fillings and I love the red bean filling the most. We ended up buying those age-manju twice (or was it thrice?) because it's simply delicious *___*

Food as souvenirs, hah

Age-Manju. My love. 

 ...to be continued. lmao

p/s: I can't believe it that this post was stored as 'draft' for more than a year already! D: