What a day! It rained all throughout but it was all fun as Hisumi-chan showed me around Shinjuku, including a food trip and a live music event at her school, the 29-floor Kogakuin University; plus some shopping for (my) winter gear and (her) job hunting outfit. After parting ways, I was back in Shibuya. While looking for the Yamaha mega store, I stumbled upon Shibashi, another musical instrument (mega) store, and soon after, found myself trying out (and then dreaming about having) one of their Pearl electronic drumsets. I missed making noise, hehe. Back on the rain soaked pavement, I then headed for nearby Tokyu Hands, and out of curiosity, did some window-shopping. I found weighing scales! And not so expensive ones too. I'll be buying one soon.
(Some pics here.)
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Friday, November 17, 2006
Yokohama (part 2)
The other part of sea paradise was the (non-sea creature related) rides, the coolest one for me being the one called Blue Fall. It's a tower which takes you 350 feet up strapped on a seat, lets you enjoy the breathtaking view of Yokohama for a few seconds, and then drops you to free-fall screaming down to the ground. It was awesome!
There was also a big roller coaster. Its size doesn't break any record but it was the biggest roller coaster that I've seen, so I didn't pass up the chance to experience it. It was a pretty cool roller coaster actually, because more than half of it stands above the sea.
A pleasant experience my friends and I nearly missed was the dolphin fantasy. It was located in a small building in the middle of the park, but it looked like an ordinary store, we didn't think it was anything special. But good thing we were curious enough and so we got to experience walking under yet another big aquarium, but this time with the company of dolphins. Inside, the building was a tunnel-like structure, and gliding over our heads were colorful fishes and the dolphins. Then at the end of the tunnel was another aquarium, this one housing a lovely white whale.
Because we tried to finish all our sea paradise activities before lunch, when we had our lunch, it was was past 1pm already. We happily ate inside the park. Mark and Meema shared a pizza while I had a Popeye salad so called because the greens were spinach leaves. Loved it!
(Next in this series: Osanbashi pier, Chinatown, and more. To be continued...)
Monday, November 13, 2006
Yokohama (part 1)
My first saturday here was spent sight-seeing yokohama, a city already outside of tokyo and around 2 hours away from where i live, which is fuchu city.
First stop was the Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise, one of japan's largest aquariums. Inside the aquarium complex was a huge tank, more than two floors high and housing at least three huge manta rays (see previous post) among the many other colorful fishes.
Going up to the 2nd floor is through the escalator which cuts through the aquarium. Folks have a closer view of the creatures because the escalator is underwater! On the right above are Mark and Meema, the subjects of my many other photos from that day (not all have been uploaded, though, so just continue to check my flickr for updates.. sorry ^-^;;).
These were just some of the creatures featured in sea paradise. Compared to the animals in tokyo sea life which i visited a few months ago, the animals here were bigger, especially the sharks and the turtles! Also there were more giant crabs here.
Plus, there was a really entertaining marine animal show! It was my first time to see a show of this kind. It was filled with awesome stunts and funny tricks from dolphins, sea lions, walruses and a beautiful white whale.
(to be continued...)
First stop was the Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise, one of japan's largest aquariums. Inside the aquarium complex was a huge tank, more than two floors high and housing at least three huge manta rays (see previous post) among the many other colorful fishes.
Going up to the 2nd floor is through the escalator which cuts through the aquarium. Folks have a closer view of the creatures because the escalator is underwater! On the right above are Mark and Meema, the subjects of my many other photos from that day (not all have been uploaded, though, so just continue to check my flickr for updates.. sorry ^-^;;).
These were just some of the creatures featured in sea paradise. Compared to the animals in tokyo sea life which i visited a few months ago, the animals here were bigger, especially the sharks and the turtles! Also there were more giant crabs here.
Plus, there was a really entertaining marine animal show! It was my first time to see a show of this kind. It was filled with awesome stunts and funny tricks from dolphins, sea lions, walruses and a beautiful white whale.
(to be continued...)
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
back in japan!
Wow! Can't believe it's been one week and two days already since I got back here in Tokyo. Been really busy with work on the weekdays. And my first weekend here was spent on sightseeing the beautiful port city of Yokohama (more about this later) and getting lost in posh Daikanyama (later also) while looking for Tokyo Baptist Church. I've tons of pictures to process (each one to convert from RAW to JPEG). In the meantime, I'm sharing this pic of a huge ray (it's at least 6 feet wide) from the Yokohama Sea Paradise.
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