Day Nine (9)!

Today we went to Odaiba!

Odaiba is, according to very knowledgable Vel Khoo, a sort of futuristic view of how Japanese scientist expect Japan to be like as it progresses. Even the Yurikamome train had tracks that ran above and overlooked the sea and the Rainbow bridge...

At 19 degrees c, it was the perfect temperature for us to visit our Oedo ONSEN Monogatari!

CUTE!

At the Onsen, we got to choose a yukata and met up at the foot bath area, which is shared by both females and males. (BTW, it was Ladies' Day today, which means females pay 500 yen LESS than the usual price! WHEE...) From there on, we separated into our different gender baths; and because we obviously were not allowed to take a camera into the area of naked bodies, we don't have photos! ^^ It was a bit wierd for me but Vel kept telling me whatever everyone else had we also had; and by the time you go into the onsen area and you see all the ah mas and little kids running around, it's almost like going back to younger days of public baths at swimming complexes.

The onsens there was shiok-anathans! There was the 'introductory' tang, at body temp of 38 degs. Vel's fav. And there's a shio-onsen (saltwater onsen, very good for injured skins) at a temp of 40 nearly 41 degs, which Vel so totally cannot take it, but I loved... And we keep going from the hot one to the cold one at 20 degs, which feels like it's freezing after the 40 degs one! But the one we both loved, was the nemu-tang (sleeping onsen), where you just lie down in the jacuzzi and sleep... ^^

They really pamper you at that place; hair dryers and lotions for body and hair were provided for you after you finish bathing, and everyone walks around the place looking refreshed, glowing and in their nice yukatas.

us around the shops inside the place


doesn't darryn look like he's having the time of his life?




a tatami room for relaxation... *kimochii*

We left Oedo Onsen and headed for Palette Town! Which we suspect Pokemon 'koped' the name from this place to put as one of their towns. It consists of VenusFort, the Palette Ferris Wheel and SEGA Joypolis.

They have a casino in the middle of the VenusFort mall square... How tmd is that?

VenusFort is beautiful! Need we say more?

Has expensive shops like Burberry Blue Label and a lot of other shops that don't ring a bell. But we found this shop: www.lush.co.jp, and we got a lot of nice gifts from this shop! go check it out.

Then we went to the Ferris Wheel...

The Ferris Wheel is beautiful.


We went at night, after like spending 2 hours at these m.o.f.o catchers again.

Had to go past the Toyota showroom, where they had the Toyota MotorSports Simulator (the racing type). Looked super fun but we weren't allowed to go cuz it was filled with high school students on their school trip again.

our Ferris Wheel ride momento... ^^

We ate 4 meals today... HELP! Japan's food is really too good to resist. Andy asking what's for breakfast tomorrow now... save us...

Meal 1: MacDonalds

Meal 2: Soba, Ramen, Udon, Ice Kachang, Soft Serve


Meal 3: Hayashi Omu-Rice


Meal 4: ODEN! + Soba AGAIN

~ We met bery nice people while waiting for the train back to Shinjuku from Tokyo Teleport Station. We boarded a train headed for the depot, and the 2 ladies behind us gestured to us and pulled us back from the train doors. So paiseh! Then they laughed at our paisehness, and we started chatting with them. Their names are Akiko san and Akimoto san.

Akiko san knew English, while Akimoto san spoke more with Vel cuz she only spoke Japanese. Then we talked about where we came from, Singapore, and when they asked us to describe what was the difference between the two countries. We talked about how Japan's weather is so nice while ours is hot like all year round; and how there is so much to see in just tokyo and like maybe they can visit bukit timah nature reserve in sg... And the food is much better here! How Sg cars are super expensive, and yet we can travel from one end to another within an hour by MRT... ^^ Quite interesting convos we had, trying to think about what can best describe our country.

Akimoto san very cute; she said, "Oh! You've visited so many places in Tokyo that even I haven't gone. I've only been to Hawaii and Guam..."

*pengs* ~

Haha so this concludes the end of our very wonderful day at Odaiba, a beautiful place with nice weather, nice scenery and interesting surprises around every corner.

so says Yanz