Day 1 Photos!

Day 1 of my trip was blogged but with no photos... So here are some to fill the gap...

Bicycle in Changi airport...

Bus ride to the plane in Pudong airport...

Boarding plane in Pudong airport...

Okayama...

JR Okayama Station... With my bicycle in a box...

My ride approaching the station! Nozomi line! N700 serie train...

Inside the Shinkansen!

Lunch... Ekiben! Or Ekimae-bento for long... Pretty right?

Katsu curry... Is it really curry? =P

Homeward Bound!

Baggage outside K's House Tokyo...

Baggage on train to Narita airport! Stupid bag so thin it's already falling apart! Somehow I found the strength to carry the bicycle on my shoulder with my backpack on to the metro station... And also found the strength to carry it into the airport proper... Now I'm aching all over... LOL!

Narita Airport!

Converyer belt sushi at Narita! Clockwise from top-left... Fatty tuna... Sea urchin... Tamago... Mantis shrimp and fatty salmon... The store was empty... So the chef was serving me exclusivly! I order... He make...

MU272 to Shanghai...

Airplane food on MU272

Airplane food on MU545

Nice view!

Surprisingly the bike and the bag survived! I'm home... Finally!

Narita Airport

Last post from Tokyo, Japan! Currently at Narita Airport awaiting boarding of flight... Very bored so decided to blog here...

It's all coming to an end now... By tonight I will be sleeping in my own bed again... Yeah... I'm coming home!

Flying back!

Will be leaving Tokyo back to Singapore via Shanghai

Departure - MU 272 at 1030

Arrival - MU 545 at 2050

Packing a Bike... Part 2!

First we throw away the chain... Old, rust, worn out! Thank you for your service since 2004... HAHAHAHAHA!

The bag!

The bike!

Halfway...

Done!

More Tokyo!

Spent more time exploring Tokyo... Went down to the Tsukiji Market for breakfast...

Shellfish...

Cooked and eaten...

Sushi... Raw and eaten... Small little shop hidden somewhere... Unlike the other shops... This 1 is filled with japanese... Not tourist... Kinda rundown... But the sushi is still good!

Went to Odaiba... This is funky building example no. 1! Tokyo Big Sight!

The Miraikan! Museum of Technology and Emerging Science! Here you can see what happens to your instant noodle cup after immerse pressure...

Deep sea exploring machine...

Still in the Miraikan! This is Pero... A comforting robot... Moves and response to your touch... The little girl was having lots of fun with it...

Funky building example no. 2! Fuji television headquarters!

Rainbow bridge! Downtown Tokyo in the background...

Tokyo Tower! Tallest steel free standing tower in the World! A replica of the Effiel tower... But lighter...

Skyline of Tokyo from Tokyo Tower!

Ghibli Museum... This is 1 of 2 photos I took from the Ghibli museum... The rest of the museum is photo prohibited! But it's quite amazing... If you enjoy Studio Ghibli films... You have to be there!

JR Shinjuku station... This bloody train station has 16 plaforms! 16 bloody plaforms! Confusing...

Tantan-man again... Extra noodle... Extra spicy...

Russian girls I met at K's House! Russian-korean girl wishes to study in Singapore... I wish you study in Singapore too... Mwahaha...

Fugu...

Wanted to blog yesterday... But had a great headache... Slept at 8 last night and only woke up at 7 this morning...

Went to the National Diet Building, the Japanese Parliment house... A frequent target of destruction in Godzilla's films... Some of my destination are determined by the big black lizard...

Went to the Kokyogalen Garden of the Imperial Palace... A lot of joggers in shorts and singlets... How do they do it?

Fountain garden next to the Imperial Gardens... See the little rainbow?

Tendon and udon at Tenya!

Went down to Harajuku next... The epic of Japanese youth culture... Or in the words of a New Zealander I met... "The Harajuku freak show!"

More visual kei... Cosplay... Weirdness...

People mountain... People sea...

Akihabara... This is m's Tower... 7 level of sin... Really!

Employees of cosplay cafe in Akihabara... Coordinated dancing and handing out of flyers...

Peach whipped cream crepe...

Went down to Torafugu-Tei for dinner... Fugu is pufferfish... Blowfish... Poisonous fish! Chefs need licence before they can serve up this dish! The above is fugu skin... Chewy and gummy...

Fugu sashimi... Thinly then most other fish sashimi... You can see the bottom of the plate! The meat has an interesting tough but nice to bite texture...

Fugu-nabe! The fish was just slaughtered... When the plate came to my table... The fish parts were still jumping... And jumping... And jumping...

More fish skin... For shabu shabu style!

Fugu-nabe... Really! It's a little bite funny to be eating hotpot alone thought... Haha!

Last dish (second last actually... the last is ice cream...)... Fugu congee... Congee cooked with the left over stew from the fugu-nabe...

So basically I survived the poisnonous fugu and tried a very unique aspect of Japanese cuisine... But I wonder if the spinning headache is coz of the fugu... Hmmm...