Thursday, 14 August 2014

Japan Trip 2014 Part 1

It's been over a month since we went to Japan, and nearly a month since we got back D:
So sorry it took so long to write up these blogs QQ

Date: July 1 2014
Destination: Tokyo, Japan, Narita Airport

A little back story to this trip: 
This was a relatively spontaneous trip decided in about a week or two, and planned very quickly (and roughly) during our summer break with two other friends. 
During our highschool years to now we'd all been fascinated and interested in Japanese culture (well, the three of us since one of us is Japanese and grew up in Japan).

So onto the story!

Udon on the plane c:
We arrived in the Narita Airport at around 4pm (jst) and got out at around 5pm. From the airport we took a bus near to our hotel. We were staying at the Tobu Levant Hotel since it offered a free bus to DisneyLand which was our third day's plan.

When we were done hauling our (at the moment, light) luggage down a stretch of the road and arrived at the front of the hotel, we realised how grungy we were LOL.

Tobu Levant Hotel has a pretty impressive entrance and an even more impressive lobby, so imagine 4 girls arriving in 11 hours worth or airplane smell and wrinkle clothing, hair starting to look a little gross, and everyone quite dishevelled from lack of sleep and makeup, into this grand entrance and into an airconditioned (hooray!!!!), marble tiled and marble columned lobby. :D"
It would have been a little embarassing if we weren't so excited to be there.

We sorted out all the admin stuff and were led to our rooms, which we then discovered weren't smokefree even though we'd asked for smokefree. 

Word of advice is, definitely ask for smokefree in Japan if you aren't a smoker/dislike the smell of smoke. Smoking seems to be a relatively common occurence in Japan.

Anyhow. We agreed that we'd wash our faces and then head out to look for some food.
We walked up and down the stretch of road outside our place and decided to have kaiten sushi, otherwise known as a sushi train.

The tap looking thing in the front gave out hot water for your tea.
Thankfully our friend taught us how to use it or else
 I would've gotten boiling water all over my hands ;A;

IT WAS SO GOOD.

K ate the other one before I managed to take a photo D;

Most memorable dishes were the unagi sushi and the scallop one.

For me (J), the scallop was like biting into the buttcheek of a baby cherub; it was so soft and pillowy and dreamy and @O@. It was ambrosia. It was beyond words and I'd give up my right eyebrow to eat another one. 
It was pretty cheap too since K and I shared the plates.

We didn't stay extremely long in there since the air con was so strong that when you scooped up green tea powder to make your tea, you could see bits of the powder blowing off o_o 

Afterwards, we bought some snacks from the convenience store and headed back up for the night.

Some sort of green tea frozen ice-cream/melty thing? It was good. 
Walking to find food
View from our room. We were right beside train tracks
but it really wasn't that noisy.

Day 1's post is pretty long but I promise the other ones won't be as word D:
Also, sorry about the lack of photos; we were just too dead to take any.

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