Japan Day Three - Kyoto

Pretty relaxed itinery today.

First stop at Kiyomiszu temple. Another temple which we did not follow the group to walk up the hill. Instead we just went shopping at the shops and bought some titbits and mochi.




Saw this cute Hello Kitty shop. They sold sauage Crepes inside shop which was good when the weather was cold and munch something hot and we did not have time for breakfast that morning.



This is the well known Golden Pavillion which was gold plated! Unfortunately, the building is banned and not many people can enter. I think Queen Elizabeth went in recently.



Kimono show. A 20mins performance where Japanese modelled their traditional Kimono.



As "promoted" by our tour guide, we went to the supermarket just next to our hotel. The girls saw the Hello Kitty kid's trolley and quickly went seated in. Rachel was too tall for it tho :)



After few days of sushi crave, our tour guide told us to checkout the sushi @ the supermarket which usually offer discount after 8pm. Being tempted, we bought a packet of sushi for our supper :) After 50% discount, it costs 400¥ which is abt S$5.50

Japan Day Two - Universal studio (USJ)

After a night rest, we are recharged ;) and we have one whole day @ Universal Studio. Unfortunately the weather was not so good. Drizzles on and off.


Our family shot @ the entrance of USJ.

Took photos with all the favorite cartoon characters!



Dunno this cartoon character but since it's so cute, the gals just wanna catch them :)





Rachel loves the SHREK show so won't miss this..



Betty Boop



The favorite Hello Kitty.. so difficult to catch a photo with it.


hehe! finally squeeze in to take photo with Elmo!



The sesame street theme..


The gals are just having fun seeing so many nice cartoons coming to LIVE!



With Popeye & Olive.


Had lunch at a chinese restuarant. Very expensive! See the 2 cheeky gals after having their lunch and ready for more shots!



Bad weather. Luckily i bot raincoats for this trip. You will be surprised all the people are not "bothered" by the rain at all. Everyone is on raincoat. Unlike in Spore, if it rains, i think everyone just hide under shelter. See the girls are having fun in rain :)


Here comes the parade... lucky thing is the rain starts again AFTER the show finished.
















Not to miss the Jurassic Park ride but not for us with the kids along...



Generally we enjoyed the day! It's quite similar to Movie World. Except we didn't have much chance to do any rides. We went to queue the E.T. Adventure but the queue was so long and we decide to give up. Some of our tour members who went queued for 4hrs!!

Hope to be back again!! :)

Japan Trip Day One - Tokyo

Our family went for a 6 days tour in Japan. You may check out on the itinery at www.fch.com.sg (7 days Honshu experience). Basically wanted to bring the gals to Universal studio and Tokyo Disneyland.

Our trip
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31 March ~ 6 April 2006
(Cherry Blossom)



After a tiring overnight flight, we touched down @ Narita airport. Our first stop is Ueno park where people can go for picnic and see Sakura. Perhaps it's the first day we reached, the weather was so cold and u can see Regine is wearing her thick "eskimo" jacket. LOL!





Asakusa temple. We didn't go to inside temple but besides the temple, it's a stretch of shops that sells Japanese tit bits. Interesting titbits as u know Japanese is very particular abt packaging. Each little titbits are packed so nicely :) We didn't get anything tho since it's only our first day and do not wish to buy and carry all the way. Anyway, they can be found at alot of places :)

After dinner, we flew to Osaka and finally reached hotel for a good rest.