Tokyo: Day 2

THURSDAY, May 3

Day 2, we went to meet up with May Ching and Joyce at 目黒 (Meguro) and later catched up with James at 西小山 (Nishi Koyama) to put their stuff at the Students' House there. Again this time James had some difficulty locating the house. But in end, we managed to locate it.

秋葉原 (Akihabara)

just look at the number of people there (the road was closed)

Then the next stop is 秋葉原 (Akihabara) a place where you can get just about everything on electronic stuff. It's just like Low Yatt Plaza back in Malaysia. But this is far far larger and there are more choices. There, we also met up with Min Ley, Sim and Mingrong. Later, we went back to Shinjuku and I got my new digital camera here. The model of my camera: Sony Cybershot DSC-T100.

the new digital cam I bought: Sony Cybershot DSC-T100

It seemed that this model is still not available in Malaysia! This black coloured gadget cost me 37800yen (around RM1300) excluding the memory card, the lense protecter and the case. But after some discounts, those 3 things cost about 6560yen (around RM220). So it totals up to around 45000yen (RM1500). Enough on those calculations! It was pretty boring to go through all those figures, isn't it?

the screen of this cam is kinda wide, which I prefer

We had our dinner at 吉野家 (Yoshinoya) which was introduced by Hao Wei coz the food seems to be at a reasonable price, tastes okay and quite worth it. And after that, we headed back to Hazama. And as usual, here goes the remaining pictures from Day 2. (I took those pics with my phone, so the quality might not as good as usual). Anyway, enjoy! ^.^

新宿 (Shinjuku)

and the people in Shinjuku are even more

skyscrapers can be seen as well

a big clock at Shinjuku

the size of KL Sentral is no where near Shinjuku Station

coz the people there just can't stop coming in and going out from the station

We planned to go to Yokohama tomorrow with the others from 小山 (Oyama) by meeting up at Shinjuku Station. This Saturday, there'll be a gathering among the Chinese students in Japan. The gathering will be at National Olympics Memorial Youth Center in 代々木 (Yoyogi).

A Trip Down Tokyo

For the next few post, I'll post in entry on my trip to Tokyo during the Golden Week holiday. If I were to shrink everything in one post, I guess that would make this entry a hell long one. So rather than doing that, I'll post them in a daily basic, along with pictures along as well. So here how it goes.

WEDNESDAY, May 2

To be honest, Yan Kuang and me had a class after the lunch break. But since that class is just on mechanical drawing, we decided to ponteng that class. Anyway, we did ask our tutor to inform the sensei. As for Joann, she had no class, so there wasn't any need to ponteng. Well, the reason we ponteng was because we were trying to catch the train going down to 新宿 (Shinjuku) at 1346. And we managed to make it to the Nagaoka Eki by time (there was still some time remaining in fact).

signboard at 長岡駅 (Nagaoka Eki)

Consider this: we were going down to Tokyo for the first time, and the train is heading to Shinjuku, which is the biggest train station in Japan. During the journey, we still got to 乗り換え (train transfer) at 2 stations, which were 水上 (Minakami) and 高崎 (Takasaki). And we did this by ourselves. Pretty bangga coz we didn't take any train by mistake throughout the journey to Shinjuku. The trip from Nagaoka to Shinjuku by 普通電車 (normal train) cost us 3690yen (around RM123). Taking shinkansen (bullet train) will cost us more than 7000yen (RM230).

the ticket from Nagaoka to Shinjuku, Tokyo: 3690yen (RM 123)

the 普通電車 (futsu densha) we took looks like this

this is the train we took

this sign in the train caught my attention but I don't really understood what it means

Then when we reach Shinjuku station, something not so nice happened. Although I was already told by one of the senpai from Tokyo kosen the way there, but some people (I won't mention here, but I guess it's kinda clear who is that) still couldn't put the trust on me. Instead he/she still wanted to wonder around and ask the information booth. That was the time I was closed to losing my temper, but I just calmed down. In the end, we took 京王線 (Keio Line) and got down at 狭間 (Hazama).

river by the road

river

houses by the river

When we reached Hazama station, Hao Wei from 東京高専 when pick us up. We later realised that the kosen is just merely a couple of minutes walk from the station! 便利じゃん！(It's convinient, isn't?) I guess it could be take a minor mistake, coz instead of taking 準特急 (half-express) which stop at just the main 6 stations, we took 各停 (normal line) which stop at every station (more than 20 stations!). But one lesson learned. Here are the remaining pictures from Day 1. Those pictures were taken along the way in the train.

bridge

and lastly, paddy field