Trip Review Day 7 to 13

Back in Singapore.... continue my trip review....

7th day - 17th Jan wed - hakodate
tour of hakodate today.... hakodate looks like san franscisco.... all the hills and slopes.... very nice place with small town feel... and the ice at hakodate is the worst!!! i fell down twice! argh... 1st time was my left leg slided while going down some steps... luckily i was holding on to the rails... else i will go tumbling down the stairs... 2nd time was off the pavement... and i fell onto my butt! more precisely, i fell on my tripod head and hit my tailbone.... my bone hurts... even till now! after i fell down, totally no mood to walk on the ice back to the tram station... so we hailed a cab and went back to hotel... that night... we ate KFC to compensate myself for falling down... haha~ luckily i fell down at night.... finished what we wanted to do liao....

we stayed at toyoko inn when we were at hakodate... the hotel is not bad... cheap too... got free breakfast of onigiri and miso soup.... then at night from 6.30pm to 6.50pm, there is also free dinner.... everyday is curry, except wed which served stew.... since it was a wed..... and we got back early... there was still some stew served.... we couldnt resist so we sat down and tucked in.... so yummy, so nice! the stew was creamy and the potato was very chunky and soft.... but the bad thing is there is no place for the luggage... the hotel provided luggage space under the bed, which is very inconvenient.... even putting the luggage under the bed is difficult....

8th day - 18th jan thurs - osaka
took 10hrs train from hakodate to osaka today.... very nice... saw the good scenery... only tokyo to osaka was a little boring... only buildings... but i got to see how nagoya, kyoto looks like from the train station.... haha~ then we went shinsaibashi, dotonborri at night... ate takoyaki, okonomiyaki and ramen.... yum yum!

9th day - 19th jan fri - osaka USJ
USJ day!!! Universal Studios Japan! we sat spiderman 2 twice! very fun! a new ride is being built at USJ... a huge rollercoaster that goes almost round the whole park and out of it... huge man... think it going to be open during summer.... looking forward to it!

I also managed to get all 16 books of nodame cantabile... heehee... read the 1st few books already... very interesting... so cute! make me miss the drama more...

10th day - 20th jan sat - tokyo
Supposed to go Nara today... but the luggage too heavy and too tired... went back tokyo earlier... ended up at ueno zoo... cos we were still thinking abt the time at the asahiyama zoo and wanted to see how the ueno zoo looked like... heehee... asahiyama is better than ueno.... then went to look for tamaki hiroshi's photobook... Book Garden at ueno had only his 1st one, which i bought... so went to Shinjuku to get his newest photo book...

11th day - 21st jan sun - lake kawaguchi
Ooh... mt fuji is majestic at lake kawaguchi... the mt was half covered with snow... but too bad today cloudy day.... cant get really good clear shot of mt fuji.... but luckily the clouds cleared up at ard 10am.... at least can see the mountain... got a bit of snow on the ground... not so bad... easy to walk... we had a very very good lunch... 2645yen only.. and a lot of good food... will post a pic of it later... went back at 6pm... didnt wait for the fireworks...

12th day - 22nd jan mon - nikko
aiyo so much snow at nikko up on the mountains! so horrible. worse than i have ever seen... not much snow at the bottom.. at the world heritage sites... but when we went up the iroha slopes to go to the kegon waterfalls and chuzenji temple... so much snow! and its considered a less snow year for them! and.... i fell down AGAIN! when we were walking to the chuzenji temple... abt 1km walk from the bus terminal... this time i did the splits... #$(*#))##... but the lucky thing is that we got a free ride out from the resthouse we had our lunch... so happy!!! no need to walk 1km back to the bus terminal among the snow... then we went to the world heritage sites where my sis had a lot of fun... Reached hotel ard 7pm and ordered dominos pizza to eat... yumyum and watched tv at the same time... then we panic when we packed our bags... too many things and too heavy...

13th day - 23rd jan tues - home......
headed off for the airport at 7am.... took 11am flight back to singapore... touched down at 1800... tired... dunno why me and my sis got sun-tanned only on our faces... but super nice trip!