I have some downtime, so I suppose to I should update my blog with the last few happenings in Japan before I forget the details!
Dinner in Wonderland!
One of the last dinners I got to have with my girls – the three most awesome girls I met in Japan – was at 絵本の国のアリス (or Alice in Fantasy Book as they called it in English). It’s an Alice in Wonderland themed restaurant in Shinjuku. The original branch is in Ginza, and they just opened a new branch in Osaka. It was a little pricey, but totally worth every penny yen.
The front and back of the menu were pop-up
Our appetizer. A little small, but delicious.
My friend’s salad
My spring rolls – thankfully dessert made up for the size of this
My desserts! Followed by my friends’ desserts
The door on the way out. You basically enter through a book cover that does not look like a door whatsoever.
Afterwards, we went for some karaoke at カラオケ館 where we discovered this little fella…
He takes the mic out of his bum before you sing.
And it wouldn’t have been a complete stay in Japan without singing this song during karaoke…
Random things here and there
I think I mentioned her before, but I took a literature class with Professor Gaye Rowley and I absolutely loved it. I was planning on buying her book and asking her to sign it (along with a couple other girls in the class who wanted to do the same), unfortunately I couldn’t find/get the book on time. Luckily, however, one of the girls who bought the book gave me hers (as a “wedding present”). A friend of hers is coming to Waseda next semester and can get another book signed for her then. So I got the book signed! Such a nerd, I know.
パンダちゃん、ありがとう！
Japan has countless flavours of Kit Kat. I’ve lost track of how many different types I tried. The special flavours tend to be a little more expensive than regular flavours, but I managed to find a bag of these on sale at Picasso.
Aloe yogurt flavour…not bad!
I totally bought a box of wasabi flavour for my cousin hehehe.
This is probably the one thing I’ll miss about Japanese Starbucks, although it only came around in the middle of July.
Yuzu green tea frappucino
My friend and I wanted to check out the Square Enix Store, not because we’re fans, but because everyone else had gone to see it haha. It’s in an odd place near Shinjuku, which we thought was strange. There’s not much else around there to see other than the Tokyo City Opera building. It definitely belongs IN Shinjuku, or better yet, Akihabara. It’s really small, but I managed to buy a couple gifts for people back home from there.
Saw this outside the station on the way to the store. It moves
The reason why we wanted to check out the store – Sephiroth in the floor
Okay so I thought I would put the rest of my Japan adventures here, but I think they deserve separate entries.
