Koenji
Came back from Shizuoka and rushed to this place for food! A pretty nice town but was kinda dead probably cos of the drizzle and the fact that it was pretty late
Had this nice ramen, first tamago in my ramen hahaha. Loved it. We were saying it's a "hidden gem," then again, every ramen shop seems to be a "hidden" gem
Suidobashi
Parted ways and decided to save money and walk home from Suidobashi instead of changing to another line and walked past the Dome City again. Look at the crowd!!! I almost couldn't make it out of the subway station... No kidding. Probably has some shopping option plus the Japan Summer sales, cos the crowd consisted of mainly girls/ladies/females. Haha!
Yanaka (again!)
Back to my favourite district with the classmates. This time round at a different cafe, more classy and atas, different feel, but equally lovely!
Inside the menu also very cute haha
Second floor was tatami style
And served very westernized food!
Nice cozy environment on the first floor
Nice ceiling glass too! Haha
Left the classmates after chilling out for awhile and went down to meet Zhihan, who's on his grad trip, and his friend (also my VJ senior)
Ginza
2000 Yen and 30 minutes wait later, this shit is the bomb! This is at Midori, apparently very famous but since I don't really go for such "high end" stuff, it was my first time hearing it
And the very disgusting and unappealing salad on the right, that's another bomb. Really good with fresh crab meat in it! Zhihan said I'll definitely go back for second; maybe. But he sure did! And only for the salad!
Ebisu
Came to this apparently pretty hipster area for the afternoon
Came all the way for this coffee shop (shop name can't be read here though). Legend has it that during peak hour the queue extends to a dragon, and the wait for one cup of coffee can take 20 minutes. I went during the off peak, and it was full house! Wanted to leave (took this photo cos I thought I won't go in), but saw some take-away cups outside so went back in to get a take-away
Sure didn't regret! Cos I found a seat haha
A window one somemore. Like.
Another very cozy setting. Barista was really friendly too! Send every customer out to the door (probably only possible during off peak) and struck a conversation with me
Having a nice atmosphere was a plus; they are really solely famous for their home roasted coffee beans!
And somehow they have this small cart thingy outside, probably to serve the take-aways (where I saw the cups), pretty interesting...
Hongo
Headed back to school and realize Todai has quite a bit of western influence in their architecture
Next morning, saw the legendary Spider-Man of Japan haha
Tsukiji (2)
So as promised, I came back
By the time they open it up to tourist at 9am, it's kinda died down...
Filled with mostly tourist, of course
Tuna sold out and left with the head hahaha
Still, there were some interesting stuff like this!
Used to think I like these thingy until I actually tasted it again here in Japan. Looks exotic, taste exotic
Had enough of fish smelling and left the market after about an hour
Ginza
Walked down to the shopping district and found myself towered by very interesting building
And very interesting clock haha
And antique cameras whose brand is supposedly the best in the world. Never heard of
Thought they were dorayaki but was pleasantly surprised to find that they were actually maple pancake!!! Very nice for the price
Then headed to this fancy place. Guess where?
More obvious clue! Haha it's a 12 storey uniqlo! Only had 20minute and forgot my passport so I'll be back again...
Much-raved-about Chazuke, except this is Oashi-Chazuke where soup is poured in instead of Cha/茶
And spotted this very interesting building haha
Hongo
Headed back to hotel then left early to do as students do:
Like how they made the effort to write in English
Also. Finally snapped a photo of the shrine in front of my hotel; something to do with health I guess
And *tada* Hotel Kizankan
And dinner for the night from the convenient stall. Everything was kinda expensive so I got Aglio Olio since I don't wanna spend too much on lousy Japanese food here...
Shibuya
Front row seat at Shibuya Starbucks to look at the crossing, not the peak though
Harajuku
Did another Shibuya-Harajuku trip, this time with the classmates, and went this place for lunch
A really nice hippy place; very popular apparently
Into this!!! Very proud of ourselves haha. Taste really good too! Probably damn fat
They also had this really cool art gallery with very interesting stuff
And I spent 10000 at this Bugis-alike place. Love the stuff I bought so no regrets! Haha
Also, got this Tonkatsu burger as early dinner before our final presentation
Odaiba
Trees were decorated with more rainbow with the Rainbow Bridge! Rushed to this place after class with Ms Blur. And as reviewed, rainbow colours moved too fast and all that's left is white haha
Raining like hell so we braved the rain for this photo! Quite pretty :D
And finally got my much needed dinner~ super nice cos I was super hungry, overeat and ended up being super full haha tummy is becoming rounder again!!!
Ryogoku
Lots of small people, many life size replica of artifacts, hands on exhibits, plus lots of tourists. Haha. Learnt a lot about Tokyo history, about how life is like, and how WWII and other natural disaster impacted the economy. Nothing about their part/deeds in the war but that's understandable
Also, recognize this brand? Haha really old car! Lots of photos but I think I've spammed enough for this post
Now guess who eats that... Haha. Sumo food!
Hongo
Headed back and they were cleaning my room so headed out for coffee at this coffee chain and it was so good! This caramel cream thingy really surprised me. It's called 上岛咖啡厅, do try this chain if you're here in Tokyo!
Then it's Farewell/Welcome party time. Met another were batch of students and made friends with quite a few of them (spoke to all of them I think! Red wine makes everyone sociable) but it was too much socialization in one night, even by my standard...
Ueno
Headed out for some partying with the classmates plus a new friend from Somalia (friends getting more and more exotic!)
Never knew Ueno was this happening at night, now I know why Ms Blur keeps coming back here
Did the most random thingy...
Everyone was happy but the angmohs were pretty surprise with this Asian style karaoke where everyone's coop in the room instead of a bar concept thingy
And then this, let's not talk about it haha
Wanted to try out Packinko, but here you can see the level of irritant the noise caused my classmate over here, plus we didn't understand how it really works, so we left
And chilled at a pretty nice Spanish restaurant, where Sangria tasted like Glogg/mulled wine, and Mojito didn't have lime juice in them. Oyster in mushroom sauce was great! But charging table fee and giving scamming cheese that were chargeable was not cool...
This is pretty cool though, you'll never guess what you're seeing... Haha! It's the toilet behind the "cellar"! Cool or what. And four-wall mirror inside. Haha
Got abit tipsy but got to rush all these before I run out of camera space. So that's all folks! A week of event before Nikko trip tomorrow!
