Plane ride, bullet train, spa world & dotonbori.
We stopped over at a cafe in Tokyo for awhile while waiting for our train, so I had hot milk! It was... freezing cold. Then came the 3 hour bullet train ride. Bullet trains are a million times more comfy than airplanes.And then came the really interesting statement by my bro's friend.
"How do both of you sleep so much? We ordered sushi and we wanted to share but then both of you we're sleeping away so soundly." WHOOPS /)__(\ Once we reached Osaka, we checked in into our Hotel, Hotel Kinki. Such a cute name isn't it! We then proceeded to spa world. Yeah we soaked in hot springs! Haha and I tried a new ice cream flavour! Milk ice cream! It tasted so good, nothing like vanilla. It was really MILK. Spa World was really cool, it even had an arcade! That's where my bro caught me my first rilakkuma! At night we headed to dotonbori, a famous shopping spot in Osaka. We ate pancakes for dinner, it was the first time I felt SO full in my life, and realised that I only ate half the pancake -__- At night, my bro and I went down to family mart to buy ramen as supper... TEEHEE. We were too hungry. The day wasn't all that exciting, but the spa was relaxing since we're all so shag from the plane + bullet train ride.
Japan Day 2.
Temples,bamboo forests and hard-boiled eggs.
On the second day, we visited 2 temples, a bamboo forest and finally experienced how early the sun sets in Japan... 4.30 and we're like... "Are you sure it's 4.30?! It looks likes it's 9 already!" Anyway, we took a train to Higashiyama District, one of Kyoto's best preserved historic district. We slowly walked up the slope where they sold really unique stuff like cucumbers on sticks. After what seemed like a long hike up, we reached Kiyomizudera Temple! It was really pretty with all the red tiny maple leaves and stuff and the sky was... perfect. There was this love shrine behind the temple where there were love stones and stuff and there was this waterfall where by we used cups to drink from 3 streams that came straight from a waterfall. Also, we paid a small fee to enter a pitch black darkness to signify 'rebirth'. So kewl. After that, we made our way to another temple which was, unfortunately, about the close by the time we reached, so we walked to the bamboo forests! Didn't manage to capture nice pictures of it since the sun had already set by that time ): Yeap. We were walking back to the train station when we passed by this egg store and so we sat down for awhile to eat since we were hungry. So we went back to this entertainment complex near our hotel and ate pasta for dinner and then went to an arcade where I caught... 3 more rilakkuma stuff toys. ^___^












Japan Day 3.
Mount Koya and a walk in the graveyard.
Okay so after a really awesome breakfast, we took a really long train ride up to Mount Koya. Then we changed to a cable car which brought us up to the mountain. We headed straight for a really really expensive lunch which costs me about.. SGD $48? It was crazy, but the food tasted really good! The food was inspirational (: So then we walked along the streets of Mount Koya and we went into a graveyard~ It wasn't scary, it was actually calming and stuff cause it's said to help people clear their minds. Fortunately, we managed to catch the last bus back to the cable car station! If not we would have to walk back! Yeap and when we wanted to walk to this electric town in Osaka but we walked in the wrong direction and just decided to go back to our hotel. Hee (: Our last day in Osaka was just spent like that.