tokyo trip (part I)

kitorg (firdaus my colleague and i) naik flight mlm to narita airport, tokyo. mula2 mcm jakun siket aa, x pernah naik JAL kan. siap bg makan sandwich sume. byk gak interesting in-flight movies, tapi disbbkan mengantuk, tido je la byk. pastu sampai narita kul 6 lebih dah. kat airport tu kena tahan (bukan arrest ye, stopped by) oleh polis kat situ. pastu amik our details, maybe sbb kitorg ni foreigners kot. polis tu siap ckp lagi yg crime rate kat jepun is increasing in the last 10 years, so diorg kena extra careful.

1st day, xde buat apa sgt (gambar dah letak kat prequel hehe). so jln2 sekitar are kita-senju station je. op before i forget, overview of the place where we stayed at:


kalau dr narita AP, kitorg turun kat sekiya station. pastu jln la dlm 10 mins gitu ke tokyo kenshu center aka TKC (now where have i heard that before? ;p). hehe mmg mata x pandang bawah la time tu, melilau je. dah la x faham apa2 kan. interestingly, keta x byk, tapi byk sgt pejalan kaki n yg bawak basikal. kejap2 dgr kring kring dr belakang nak mintak laluan.

the next day after class, kitorg jln2 di akihabara. the electric town of tokyo.

yodobashi akiba, one of the largest electronic store there. tapi kitorg x masuk pun, sbb duk cari duty free shops je heheh

actually our coordinator, yukiko-san ada bg map of duty-free shops there, tapi biasa la 1st-timer, dah ada map pun duk confuse lagi. last2 tanya this one jap guy. (tip: kalau nak tanya direction ke tpt mana, sebut nama tpt tu je, sambil guna tone utk bertanyakan soalan). "duty free?" mula2 mamat tu mcm x sure kat mana. dia mcm mundar-mandir kat area dia mula2 diri tu je. ingatkan dia x tau kan, so kitorg pun xpe la it's ok, arigato. sekali bila dah dlm 3-4 mins jln, tiba2 nampak mamat jap tu berlari ke kitorg. pastu dia bawakkan kitorg ke kedai yg kitorg nak cari tadi! semangat tu kejar kitorg balik kan. terharu gak aa time tu.

one of the duty-free shops there. ni yg 1st kitorg masuk rasanya. err tapi xde la rasa murah sgt, sbb time tu yen tgh naik kot.

firdaus (err yg ni dr msia, pakai snowcap) n mr khan, rep from pakistan patent office. err mula2 ingatkan mr khan nak tunjukkan jln (sbb dia ckp dia dah dtg sini the year before), rupa2nya dia pun 2x5 gak heheh (err tapi seriously aku rasa my sense of direction is better than his)

akihabara dr jauh. there's laox, duty-free shop that has relatively cheaper stuffs


typical outlook of a japanese restaurant. kat depan mesti penuh dgn replika2 makanan diorg. meleleh beb tgk udang2, salmon sume tu. kalau typical soba restaurant, lain pulak rupanya

mr khan nak beli kebab. haha aku teringat yg k ida ke k syud cite diorg makan kebab, so bila aku ternampak kebab van ni mcm terexcited la, "eh eh kebab!". sekali mr khan ni iya2 ajak beli. sungguh2 dia tanyakan mamat penjual tu, "yea yea it's halal." tapi err mengenangkan yg masa tour kat office that morning, yg dia ckp kat coord dia makan ayam, so dgn politenya aku berkata, "it's okay, maybe some other time." lagipun 500yen, of course la kena fikir 2-3 kali kan. hehe. tergoda jugak la bau kebab yg best itu.

and sebenarnya bila dtg dan dtg lagi ke akihabara, the 3rd time masa kawan aku tanya halal ke x mamat penjual tu ckp "i dunno."

cont.