Day 7 :
Actually we wanted to go to the Zao fox Village today, but realise that
the train tickets there is already beyond our budget cause we do not
have much cash left for our last day in Tokyo. Haha! So we decided to go Odaiba and also to do some last minute shopping.
Today we decided to try their 'fast food' bento from this Matsuya, which can be seen almost everywhere and which we pass by everyday while on our way to the train station.
Operating Hours : 24Hrs
Almost full house when we go in.
And again, bought our food ticket through the machine.
Pearlie's Japanese curry bento.
And my chicken bento.
Took train to Shinjuku station and transfer to the JR Yamanote Line to
Osaki station and from there transfer to Rinkai line and alight at the
Tokyo teleport station.
Exit A from Toyko teleport station.
Here we are at the Venus Fort and this is where
their Farris wheel located at.
My first time seeing pink leaves!
The Venus fort mall is actually a outlet mall and the interior of the mall is really like Venus ( although I never been to Venus but I saw pictures of the place before ).
Operating Hours : 11am - 9pm
There is a fountain in the mall and this really make you feel like you are in one of the European country.
After walking in the Venus fort, we walk over to the Diver City Tokyo plaza, which is another mall near to the Venus font. Exit B from the Tokyo teleport station.
Here we are at the Diver City Tokyo Plaza.
Operating Hours : 10am - 9pm
Walk in and the first shop that attract our attention is the kitty land!
Hello kitty lover please be aware as you might go crazy inside!
And look at those cute ice cream!
Of course we have to have some of those cute ice cream!
Need more cosmetic? Don't worry there is Matsumoto Kiyoshi here too.
This mall is actually famous for the giant gundam which is outside the festival plaza at level 2.
The Gundam is really huge! There is certain timing where you can get to
see the head of the Gundam moving but we just missed the timing and the
next timing is a bit too late for us. Anyway picture for us will do since
we know nothing about this robot. Haha!
Selfie with the big robot!
Went to the ABC mart at level 5 and this outlet is so far the biggest I
saw! Wanted to get a pair of shoe for my mum and myself. Already know
what I want so it's a grab and go shopping. No tax free for all ABC mart
by the way.
Next will be the snacks time! Big outlet for all the famous snacks like the Tokyo banana, the white chocolate and many more.
After all the shopping, we walk over to the liberty of statue. Yes, I'm
in Tokyo not New York and yes there is a Liberty of statue there too!
And beside the statue will be the rainbow bridge. I guess the bridge will be nicer when it's at night.
Anyway sun is setting, time to head back to town to continue our last minute shopping.
We are already at the Daiba station, so we took the yarikamone line from
Daiba station to shimbashi stayion, transfer to the ginza line and
alight at Shibuya.
Was here for the Onitsuka Tiger flagship store cause the another smaller
outlet in Kitte mall had lesser design and Miyuki told me to come to this
outlet to have a look. Indeed much bigger with more design here But it
was super crowed! And the staff here can speak better English then the
other outlet! *phew*
Operating Hours : 11am - 9pm ( Monday - Friday )
11am - 8.30pm ( Saturday and Sunday )
No tax refund for Onitsuka Tiger store but there is 5% off if you are a tourist. I guess it works the same as tax refund.
Disney castle opposite the Onitsuka Tiger store! But not a Disney fan!
No more value in our pasmo card and since it's our last night here, we shall not top up the card and instead we buy the single trip ticket.
Back to our home area to have our dinner. Wanted to have udon as our
last dinner and just nice that there is a small udon restaurant, Udon Omoya which is just below
our apartment. Went in there, only locals inside. Some time place that
has only locals are the place that sell better food.
Operating Hours : 11am - 2pm,
6pm - 10pm
The staff in the shop actually do live performance on certain days, and can see their performance through YouTube.
Haha look their English menu! Their face on the cover page.
Back home quite early to pack our luggage and rest early as we need to wake up early to head off to the airport.
Oh ya not forgetting the last dessert in Japan from the convenience store! This peach ice cream ball is so nice that I wish I could bring back to Singapore!
Time to pack all my loot into the luggage!
Good night Toyko!
Day 8 :
Woke up really early and head off to Shinjuku station and to see if we
could get the airport limousine bus ticket. One of my friend told me
that we need to buy the bus tickets in advance but luckily when we reach
the ticket counter, there is still tickets for the next
coming bus to the airport ! *phew*
Address : Japan, 〒160-0023 Tōkyō-to, Shinjuku-ku, Nishishinjuku, 1 Chome−10, 西新宿1丁目19-11 パシフィカ西新宿ビル1
The bus stop which is bus stop 23 is just right in front of the ticket counter.
There is still time so finally I can have my breakfast. Bought the food
yesterday night and reheat in the apartment before leaving the house in
order to save time.
You will not expect convenience store sell this type of soft boil egg! People who love Japanese style of soft boil egg will go crazy if they sees this!
Journey takes about 1.5 hrs so we reached quite early to the airport.
After check in, went to do some shopping again!
After 1 week of tax free shopping, my passport looks like this. Haha!
Anyway, I thought that the custom will check our items to make sure we
didn't open up those sealed up bags of products but they actually didn't
check at all. After passing through the security check, and before the
immigration check, there is a staff holding to a basket and asking us to
remove the receipts that was pasted or stapled on our passport and
that's it! Fast and easy! If I know they don't even check, I should have
remove all the sealed plastic because of the way they put the things in
the bag wasted a lot of space in my luggage.
Ok! 1 last shop for the really really really last minute shopping! Haha!
Saw the Sakura matcha Kitkat which we didn't see it else other where so we
decided to grab it.
No more shopping so time to sit back and relax while waiting for our boarding time!
Good bye Tokyo! You have been quite good to us except for the only
raining ( yet very heavy rain ) day, communication breakdown (80%), and a
few rude Japanese we met in the week (surprisingly!), otherwise
everything is good! Food is good and happy to see the beautiful Sakura
too! Hope to go Japan again but maybe other part of Japan!
In flight Lunch! Had teriyaki chicken wrap this time round.
Hello Mount Fuji!
Hello Taiwan! I'm back! It's raining in Taiwan I guess the sky can feel
how sad I'm to end my holiday. The flight got delay so our transit
waiting time become shorter.
And here's the dinner time. Had nasi lemak and finally a better food from the flight.
Anyway see ya guys! Gonna plan for my next trip soon!
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