My second last day in Japan! Gosh! I had wanted to re-visit Tsujiki Fish Market for yummy breakfast but suddenly changed my mind to dine at Midori Sushi, a recommendation from a colleague. It must have been truly good and value for money because the queue was like.....
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| Damn long loh |
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| Menu looks quite value for money! |
RJ opted to eat something else and after a while of queuing, I decided to give up and make the trip to Kita-Senju for the Matador beef ramen that I had wanted to try since reading this post from
Ramen Adventures blog. In fact i did all my ramen research at this super comprehensive blog.
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| On the way to the train station |
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| By Kinokuniya! No books, only food! |
Matador Ramen at Kita-Senju
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| So exciting!! |
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| Finally waited my way inside |
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| Serious slurping going on |
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| Decided to add a beef bowl to my ramen cos it looked yum |
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| Hehehhehe |
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| Big nice friendly bowl of beef ramen! |
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| The beef rice bowl is SO SUPER GOOD!!! I LOVE YOU. |
The beef soup was sweet and so piping hot I burnt my tongue on it. The noodles were the type I liked, the bouncy springy smooth ones *heart! *. But I was totally blown away by the beef bowl! It was like I flew up into the sky and beef, egg, spring onions and rice flew all around me on and on and on. SO SO Goood!
After lunch I drank a meiji probiotic drink hoping that it would help me to digest the load of food I fed my tummy and walked around the neighbourhood. Came across a shopping street.
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| Kawaiiiiii |
After some supermarket exploration and more walking, I found myself back at Kita-Senju station and went to explore the huge shopping centre at the station. I was amused and impressed by the cute toilet plan within the toilet.
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| So cute and considerate |
Since there was still time, I made a trip down to Asakusa. Japanguide.com informed me that Asakusa is home to Senso-ji, a famous and popular temple in Tokyo, so off I went towards it.
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| Seems to be a comedian! |
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| Senso-ji. Super crowded. Most crowded temple I've been to in Japan! |
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| Free green tea. Of course must queue! |
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| Lots of tourists asking ladies in kimono for photos |
After touring the temple and its spacious toilet, I went off down Nakamise shopping street as I had taken another route towards Senso-ji.
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| Photo of Nakamise before I left |
If you are feeling like you wish to be around lots of tourists and locals in a festive mood, please go on to Senso-ji and squeeze with the hoards of people in the streets around Senso-ji and queue for the yummy looking food on the weekends.
I did enjoy this temple, very bustling and energetic. Definitely worth a visit!
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| Nice shop shutters heheh |
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| Junction in front of Asakusa. I find the multiwalk crossing in Japan quite good! |
By this time it was close to dinner time, so I went off back to Shibuya to meet RJ and buy the Tokyo Milk Cheese Factory cookies from the Tokyu Dept store!!
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| Soooo cuteeee |
I forgot to take a pic of the TMCF shop cos I was too distracted by the different varieties. The staff was very nice and let us try a few. In the end I decided on the Salt & Camembert and Tomato Basil & Mozzarella. Yummmmyyy.
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| Salt & Camembert |
Task completed! And since we were at Shibuya, there were 2 things to check out: 1) Hachiko 2) The famous Shibuya Scrraaaamble!
According to our research, Starbucks is one of the best places to check out the scramble and soo off we went to Starbucks
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| All these people are waiting for the scramble |
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| And scramble starts! |
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| Ends.... |
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| And the cars move on.. |
And so we moved on to Hachiko...
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| Statue and tons of people photographing... |
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| Proof that I stepped into Shibuya lols |
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| Shibuya 109 |
We were tired and RJ was heavily laden with her wanton shopping earlier so we decided to return to our room. Before entering the train station, we stopped by a souvenir shop before going back to Ikebukuro.. These are so cute and well done!!
Back at our room i did major packing in preparation for my last day in Japan *Sad* I had to rest early because I wanted to eat the super long queue tsukemen at Rokurinsha!
Day 15 - Tokyo Station Ramen St Rokurinsha / Ueno / Nippori / Tokyo Narita Airport
