Japan Trip Day 5: Tokyo Imeperial Palace > Takeshita Street > Akihabara

On the fifth day, we went to Tokyo Imperial Palace for sighseeing first

There are few ways to reach here by the metro:

• To Sakashita-mon Gate   from subway Chiyoda Line Nijubashi-mae Station (Exit 6): 15-minute walk   from subway Mita Line Otemachi Station (Exit D2): 15-minute walk   from JR Line Tokyo Station (Marunouchi Central Exit): 20-minute walk • To Kikyo-mon Gate   from subway Chiyoda Line Nijubashi-mae Station (Exit 6): 10-minute walk   from subway Mita Line Otemachi Station (Exit D2): 10-minute walk   from JR Line Tokyo Station (Marunouchi Central Exit): 15-minute walk • To Ote-mon Gate   from subway Each Line Otemachi Station (Exit C13a): 5-minute walk   from subway Chiyoda Line Nijubashi-mae Station (Exit 6): 10-minute walk   from JR Line Tokyo Station (Marunouchi North Exit): 15-minute walk • To Hirakawa-mon Gate   from subway Tozai Line Takebashi Station (Exit 1a): 5-minute walk • To Kita-hanebashi-mon Gate   from subway Tozai Line Takebashi Station (Exit 1a): 5-minute walk Since I have bought the 3 days pass of metro subway so we took the subway line to Otemachi Station which is only 5 mins walk to reach the destination. After come out from exit C13a, you just need to cross the road to the opposite side  and you will reach the entrance gate of Tokyo Imperial Palace.

There is a peaceful lake outside of the Palace and the ducklings were adorable.

This picture is obviously showing that it was winter season as the trees look bald. LOL

Here we are at the entrance gate of the palace

Don't worry about the entrance fees,
There is no charges for the entrance.

The palace is huge and they planted different kinds of tress and flowers inside here

It is so happy when you found a trees with blooming flowers during the winter season

I can't miss the chance of taking pic with all these awesome plants thou

What is this ? Oh , is mandarin orange !

A big nice field for the kids to run??

I think it is wonderful to picnic at here with your loved ones

The magneficient walls 

How they build this by the way??

After visiting Tokyo Imperial Palace,

we took JR Line to reach Harajuku station

(If you are using subway metro, you have to stop at Meiji Shrine Station and walk a quite long distance to reach the Takeshita street)

That day was Sunday and the street was like FULLLL of people

Did you notice a restaurant beside the Takeshita street sign ?

Yes we ate our lunch at YOSHINOYA restaurant

This restaurant is quite popular in Tokyo as I noticed this restaurant at somewhere else too

Yoshinoya menu is mainly for meat lover I guessed

So I ordered side dish like Miso Soup, a bowl of rice, Kimuchi and Tamago to become lunch of my day, it cost around 300 yen like this as I share the rice with my mom

It is considered super duper cheap already to have lunch in Tokyo by paying 300 yen  LOL

Next we started our window shopping mood to the Takeshita Street

Takeshita street is a place full of cosplay and fashion items 

Besides, I didn't see much of the cosplayer walking on the street at all

I just see some of them but I expect a lot of cosplayers will walk on the street initially

There is a pharmacy at the left side of the shop rows which sell extremely cheap compare to the previous pharmacy we shop before

It is near to the entrance there and it is situated at the left side

Do visit it to buy a cheaper price of item as we have compared many shops

and this pharmacy is the cheapest

The street sells a lot of dessert crepe with different brand of shop name

I still prefer Thailand Pancake rather than this 

That pancake taste much better

If you can't find any Anello bags in Tokyo

Come to Takeshita street, you will see almost every shops are selling ANELLO

So my advice is

DONT BUY TOO EARLIER AS HERE HAS A LOT OF CHOICES

After ramen for so many days, we tried UDON at the restaurant which inside the SHINJUKU station 

It taste soooooo nice !

OMG, I forgot what their name already but trust me there is not much restaurant along the walkway

and this is the only restaurant selling UDON

We had our dinner at here before heading to AKIHABARA

From Shinjuku to Akihabara

To get to Akihabara from Shinjuku JR Station, board the JR Chuo Line headed for Tōkyō. Next, switch to the JR Sobu Line at JR Ochanomizu station. Be sure to check where the trains are headed. The Chuo Line has orange trains and the Sobu Line has yellow trains.

Trains: JR Chuo Line and JR Sobu Line
Change Trains At: JR Ochanomizu Station
Fare: 165 yen
Time: About 12 minutes

Akihabara is a must go place in Tokyo as you will discover a lot of technology items that you never seen before in Malaysia

We came during the night so we can't really explore all of the shops actually

But we did not expect to buy anything from here as our country currency is sucks like waste paper

so we just explore the place and discover their new technology

There is a place that attracts customer to enter their shop to spin the balls or play their machine

Too bad that Malaysia don't have any shops like this

It looks fun !

We can see a lot of strange things at here

just like I saw 3 karts riding on the road at Akihabara

and they are wearing super cute outfit riding the karts

These attract a lot of eyes looking at them when they are waiting for the traffic light to turn green

We entered a shop that has 6 storeys level and different categories of technology sold at each floor

Like the ground level selling phones, cables and powerbanks

while first floor selling cameras and DSLR

Their printer is so small and light and square in size

This is the latest printer that selling in Japan

You know Japan always faster than us.

This is the scanner

Go up to the highest floor, there is variety of groceries selling at here

even the toilet bowl also selling at here

Their toilet bowl is quite popular even China people also came here to buy their toilet bowl

just because their toilet bowl provide warm seated when you sit on it

You know , we need this very much during winter time so that you will enjoy the warm of your butt inside the toilet LOL

If you are finding the hair dryer which will smoothen the hair from Panasonic brand,

this floor is selling everythings that we need 

Just the matter of money stop us from buying, damn it Malaysia.

Even branded purse also selling at here LOL

Never see this kind of motor before 

and the girls are riding the motor !

Their motors are like gaming type motor but they are riding on the road !

Is a new thing for me you know, I was like:

THIS IS SO COOL MAN, GIRLS RIDING SOMEMORE

I will come out with an itinerary and summary of my budget soon  for the whole Japan Trip

Do stay tuned for my coming post ya

Japan Trip Day 4: Shinjuku > Meiji Shrine > Shibuya Crossing > BAPE Store

Forth day in Japan willl be a money burning day as we choose to walk around the city area

Supposingly the schedule should be walk from

Shinjuku > Harajuku > Shibuya

But I was not feeling well on that day so I have postponed some places to the next following days 

Since I was not feeling well on that day

I have took lesser pictures compared to the past few days

Even though we went to Shinjuku,

but there is nothing much for me to walk though

except visiting the Isetan to shop for YSL

and visit Isetan food heaven places where you will see a lot of nice tiny food displayed inside the glass cabinet.

Oh ya , we have bought a 3 days of metro DAY PASS which can take the metro line for unlimited times which cost around 1500yen for 3 days

It is more worth for us if we would plan to travel to many places via the metro line.

After Shinjuku, we took metro line to Meiji Shrine Station

and Meiji Shrine is just beside the station only after walked for 10 mins to step out from the station

But I will recommend to take JR line to reach at Harajuku Station which is much nearer to Harajuku and Meiji Shrine

We have to walked almost 1 kilometres of distance to reach the main place

I was like : OH MY GOD ! I am going to faint soon !

After walked for 20 minutes, we reached the main gate finally.

Omg, I was like THANK GOD ! I just did it !

Same to Asakusa Temple, we have to wash our hands and gargle with it before we enter the temple.

It was such a great opportunity for us to witness the Japanese wedding ceremony

Their wedding ceremony is so quiet and strict

No one is smiling or showing happy face, they just walked to the temple with no expression face. 

Unlike Malaysia, our wedding ceremony is much more full of happiness and joyness.

I prefer Malaysia wedding ceremony compared to Japan one.

Wishing cards was written at here if you wish something to come true,

The wishing cards behind me become my background of the photo.

Once we walked out from the Meiji Shrine exit,

we were lost as the entrance and exit of Meiji Shrine was different at all

So end up we have to use google maps to search for nearest station 

and is quite far from Harajuku Station already

So we just take the metro train to Shibuya directly

Shibuya is famous in their Shibuya crossings
and that day was a weekend, so I bet the shibuya crossing will not disappointed us
and yes, the crowded was insane !
We still can saw few photographers setting up their camera to shoot the spectacular crossing. 

Let see how spectacular Shibuya Crossing was !

After 3 continuous days of eating ramen, my mom and I was quite bored on Ramen and was like hunting for others food besides Ramen.

So we just stopped by a Hong Kong restaurant in Shibuya

and had a great lunch with our chinese-used-to-have meals

We ordered 2 different flavours of fried rice and a bowl of egg soup.

It cost around 1900 yen for 2 fried rice and a bowl of soup.

But the food taste nice except the soup.

After lunch, we shop for Anello bags and jackets

I saw many people wearing this kind of jackets nowadays walking on the street

so I would like to tried something new for me too as my boyfriend owned a piece of jacket with this kind of color too, thought of having a couple jacket with him but we never wore together at all after I bought. LOL

That day was the day we bought a lot of ANELLO bags too !

I thought it was hard to find ANELLO bags in Tokyo as we cant find any of it when we were in Shinjuku

But we found that Harajuku and Shibuya shops selling a lot of design of Anello bags !

My mom was kinda regret when she bought the bag too early when there is limited design to choose only in the previous shop

Don't buy Anello bags too early if you would like to have more designs to choose with.

Go for Harajuku street, there will be tons of it at there.

Shibuya is an interesting place to walk thou as you will see many kinds of interesting things and selling interesting items that you may not discover yet in your life

I visited Shibuya Bape Store too as BAPE is their Japan branding and it sell much cheaper for sure

Many people who love streetwear style will come for it and buy their favourite BAPE wearings.

I have to queue up before I can enter the store as they allowed a certain number of customers enter to the BAPE store only. Ridiculous right?

But Bape is considered a branding in Japan so it is common for them.

After Bape store, we ended our day as the sun going to set soon

and I was not feeling well at all

so we rest earlier on that day.

Please stay tuned for the Japan Trip Day 5 ya.

More interesting pictures to come.