Universal Studio, Japan Trip (Day 10)

5th January 2015, Monday

Train to Universal City

Today, we were going to Universal Studio and it is a perfect day because it was sunny. We got up early and prepared ourselves. We had breakfast at the hotel canteen too and then we went off to travel to the theme park. We had to take the JR line and transfer at Nishikujo station and took the train to go to Universal Studio. Another alternative way to go there was by a 10 minutes ferry from Osaka Aquarium. We alighted at Universal City station and i was very excited to go to the theme park again. And they had built a new world - The Wizardry World of Harry Potter. We passed a lot of the shops and hotels outside the theme park but there was one side having some construction works going on. There were many people going to the park too. We ran to the tickets counters and queued to get our entrance tickets, the staff heard us wrongly and gave us 4 tickets instead of 2 tickets..hohoho....The tickets were with Hermione and Ron's pictures, and once we got the tickets, we went in quickly.

Woody Woodpecker

Pink Panther

There were a lot of people on the main street and some characters had also came out to greet the people. We tried to find the tickets machines to get our timing to visit the wizardry world (Need to get timing to go in due to overwhelming response from the crowds). There were also a lot of people trying to get the times too, we chopped 4.00 pm to 5.00 pm to enter. After we got our entry tickets, i dragged my friend to go for the Spiderman ride (it was like Transformers ride in Universal Studio Singapore). There was a very big christmas tree placed beside the Spiderman attraction. We went in to queue for the ride, the queuing line was super super long. We waited for almost an hour before we got our turn on the ride, it was so fun. I felt there was more space for the cars to turn around and back. After we came out, my friend was trying to get her breath.....She said it was not so scary than the Mummy ride in Universal Studio Singapore. I waited for her to get better before we started walking around the park again. We went to the street again and saw people starting to sit on the ground, preparing to catch the street parade. So we found a spot and sat down too, my friend went to buy hot dog and some snacks. We ate while we waited for the parade to start too.

The parade started at 1 plus, and it was enjoyable. The characters were all singing and dancing to entertain the crowds. After the parade was finished, the characters stayed on for the crowds to have photo with them. We went off to see the other worlds, wanted to watch Sesame Street 4D show but there was not enough time as it was already 2 plus and if we watched this, we will miss the Waterworld performance. My friend bought a small packet of popcorn too, which we finished eating it while queuing to go toilet in one of the world..hohoho....Then we went passed Jaws World and passed Jurassic Park before we reached the WaterWorld. We caught the last show for the Waterworld performance and we sat on the side seats. And of course the performance was in Japanese language, we just watched on the actions. It was still very entertaining despite i had watched it like 3 times (included in USS). After the show, I brought my friend to see the water roller coaster in the Juassic Park and we bought 1 turkey leg to eat. The staff was saying 1 whole bunch of Japanese words and was speaking very fast too. Suddenly she switched to English and asked us where we are from. Both of us were stunned and we both paused for a while, the staff had to ask us another time before we replied back to the lady. She asked us whether we like Japan and she was very happy when we told her we both like Japan. She thanked us and we said bye-bye to her. Then we walked to the wizardry world of Harry Potter while eating the turkey leg.

ButterBeer (Good to Try)

Entrance to Dumbledore's Office

Hogwarts Castle (Night View)

We went to the wizardry world and we still had to wait before we were allowed to go in. There was a long path to walk where Ron's car was displayed in the grasses. And when we reached the main gate, we were greeted by the cottage houses that was shown in the shows. At the side of the right side, there stood the Hogwarts Express Train. And my camera run of space in my memory card...grrrr....so i had to use my handphone to take photos for the rest of the day. There were much more people in this world than others, all the shops were packed with people. We can't even go in to see all the shops cos they were too crowded. But the shops were selling wands used by the characters in the movies, Hogwarts school uniforms, Owls Post, sweet and chocolates that were also shown in the movies. All the houses were covered with fake snow on the roofs. And there was something interesting that was selling on the streets - ButterBeer. It was a popular drink in the wizard world of Harry Potter. And of course, the queue for it was also long. We also went and queued to get one cup to drink it. It comes with hot or cold, we ordered the cold beer to try it. It was nice, it wasn't really beer and there was a layer of cream on top and it tasted like soda. I like it....hehehe...Then we tried to see inside the shops while drinking the beer. There were some 'students' performing trying to teach their pet frogs to sing on the stage. Then we went for the Hogwarts castle walk, it was a walk inside Hogwarts castle. There was another line for the roller coaster ride called Flight of the Hippogriff. Both queue lines were long, even for the walking trail, it took us almost half an hour to 45 mins to complete the whole trail.

Elmo

Blue Monkey

Pork Ribs (Hard Rock Cafe)

It was already past 5 plus by the time we came out from the trail. We went and bought another butterbeer drink but this time we got the hot beer. It wasn't so nice, it was having a weird bitter taste in it. Then we just walked around the shops and there was a nice reflection of the Hogwarts Castle in the river, just beside one of the shops. After walking around and finished drinking the beer, we left the wizard world and went back to the Hollywood street. We went to Mel's Drive-in restaurant to have dinner as my friend likes it. I just had a cup of soup as there were only beef burgers. After the meal, we walked back on the streets. The big christmas tree was lighted up with beautiful lights and we went to find a spot for us to sit down for the starlight parade. The parade started at around 7 plus, all the cars were lighted up with beautiful lights. It was enjoyable and this parade was only available during christmas period. I am glad i got to watch it this time back in USJ. After the parade, we went to the main stall to get our last shopping before we left the place. And of course, we went to take photos with the big Universal Globe outside the theme park. As we were feeling abit hungry, we went to Hard Rock Cafe to have something to eat. Tried their cocktails, the taste were very strong. Had their famous pork ribs too, it was not bad. After the meal, we took the JR line back to the hotel to rest.

Hotel Stayed:
Humor Resort New Oriental Hotel

Osaka 大阪, Japan Trip (Day 9)

4th January 2015, Sunday

Kyoto Ramen Street

Gyoza

Fried Rice again!!

Today, we had to leave the nice hotel and take the train to Osaka. So we got ourselves prepared and packed our luggage and checked out of the hotel. We took the train back to Kyoto station and reserved the 12 pm plus train to Osaka. As there were still time for lunch. we wanted to pack lunch from the 1st ramen restaurant we ate on the first day we arrived in Kyoto there. So my friend waited at a corner while i ran up to the restaurant to buy the food. But the restaurant don't provide takeaways, so we had to eat in the restaurant. Then i went back to my friend and we went together back up to the restaurant to have our lunch...our last meal in Kyoto..really like the food there. Anyway, we missed our train while having lunch there..hohoho...After lunch, we went back to the JR office and reserved the next train to Osaka. Once it was done, we made our way slowly to the train platform. Suddenly, i noticed someone very big sized standing beside me and was wearing the traditional clothes for Japanese guys. But he looked like a sumo wrestler to me...hahahaa...

Hotel Bed

Breakfast Coupons

We boarded the train as the train arrived, it was a 15 mins ride to Osaka. We reached Shin-Osaka station at about 1.00 pm where we had to change to the metro to get to our hotel. We took the metro station until Anwa station and were walking around the station 1 big round just to find exit 1 in the pink line. And we had to carry all our stuffs up the stairs to the street level. Luckily the hotel was just located across the road, and we went to check but the staff told us the room was not ready for us yet. So we sat at the lobby to wait for the room to be ready. Luckily we just had to wait for about 10 mins and our room was ready. We were also given the breakfast vouchers (this is the only hotel that included breakfast). And we went up to our room, the room was small as usual and with 2 twin beds. And the toilet was also small and there was sound coming from the toilet ground...sounds like the floor going to break anytime. The bathtub was also small and the curtains was not cleaned, there were some dirty patches on it. There was no wifi in the room too...haiz...Anyway, we rested in the room for some time until 3 or 4 plus before we left the hotel and went to Osaka Aquarium.

Sea Otter

Sting Ray

Spider Crab

Light Illustration Outside the Aquarium Entrance

It was a straight train to Osakako station from our hotel and there were signs for us to follow when we alighted from the station to walk to the aquarium. There was a very big Ferris wheel in front of it and it was near the harbour. And i saw there was a sign that directs to take a ship to Universal Studio Japan, which was very interesting. Then i went to get the entrance tickets from the counter and we went in to explore the aquarium. The starting point was from the 8th level, Japan Forest and slowly go down each level to view the fishes. There were river otters, which were very playful and sea otter, which was bathing itself when we saw her. Then there were sea lions and seals, some playing and some sleeping. Dolphins were swimming in a very fast speed (i was not able to capture the action with my camera), and performing for us to see. Cute penguins resting and the lights even turned off when we reached there, it was their sleeping time. There was a super giant fish in the Pacific Ocean place, swimming with other fishes, like the sting rays, hammerhead shark, etc. There were many types of fishes in the big aquarium to see and study, spider crabs and jellyfishes were there too. By the time we finished walking in the aquarium, it was already past 7 pm.

Yummy Omu Rice

Rice with Chicken and Egg

We left the aquarium and saw a street performer performing some street magic tricks to entertain the kids. We stood there and watched abit and then we went inside the nearby mall to have our dinner. There was a level where all the restaurants were located. So i chose a place that was selling omu rice and we had 2 plate of omu rice. The rice was nice to eat, after the dinner, we went back to our hotel to rest.

Hotel Stayed:
Humor Resort New Oriental Hotel

Kyoto 京都, Japan Trip (Day 8)

3rd January 2015, Saturday

Parked Cars covered with Snow

Lake covered in Snow

Direction to the correct Gion

Today, we had planned to go Arashiyama but decided not to go as we didn't really explore Kyoto city itself. So we searched google map to go Gion, which was the Geisha street in Kyoto instead. We even found a 540 years old soba restaurant which was somewhere near the Imperial Palace. So we got ready and went out to the station which Google map had indicated, which was 1 stop away from our hotel station. Then we tried to walk very slowly, cos the whole ground was covered with ice and there were still left over snow around too. We just took our time to walk to the place which Google Map had pointed us to. It took us a long while to reach the place, cos we were also playing with the snow too...hehehe...The cars in the car park were also having snow on top of them. But alas, it was the wrong place, there was a notice pasted on the window, saying that the Gion shown in Google map was wrong and there was instructions on how to go to the real Gion distinct. So we walked back to the subway station again and took the subway to Higashiyama Station.

Unopened Shops

Nice River

Imperial Palace Gate

We were very lost when we came out from the station exit. So we just decided on 1 direction and started walking. There were shops along a street but all were not opened yet, seems like the opening time was in the late afternoon or evening time. Then we came to a river with an open bridge (more like a stone path with small walkway and there was no support to hold. We didn't try to walk over it but we saw an ang mo tourist walked across it. Then we walked further and it doesn't look right anymore. So we turned back and looked at the map near the river. There was buses to the Imperial Palace, so we decided to take the bus there. Saw their public toilet dome near the bus stop, very weird though...hahhaa...Then we waited for the bus to come, it came after about a few minutes later. And so we boarded and alighted at one of the entrances to Kyoto Imperial Palace. We thought of finding the 540 years old Soba restaurant and so we walked into the big garden of the palace. Snow was on the whole ground too, some parts were wet too. I just enjoyed myself and tried to walk on the snow with my rubber shoes (It was fun walking in the snow). My friend was cold until she don't have the mood to play...hehehe.....But when we reached the palace main gate, it wasn't opened for the day (Maybe due to the holidays week). It was a pity...didn't get to see the inside of the palace. So we left through another exit and we got lost again...hehehe....We just kept walking, trying to find the directions to the restaurant. I was getting hungry and abit frustrated too as we walked and we had walked until the next subway station away from the Imperial Palace.

Ho-Rai Soba Set

Ebi Don

Our dessert

So later i asked my friend to go the metro station and took the subway instead of walking in the cold. Then we just took the subway from Imadegawa Station to Karasuma Oike Station which was nearer to the restaurant. We checked the area map again from the station before we exited and tried to walk to the restaurant when we came out from the station. It was much nearer than walking from the imperial palace and the blogger wrote that it was like 5 mins away from the palace... -_-".....Finally we reached the restaurant, the name was called Kyoto Honke Owariya Soba (Must come to this place if you are in Kyoto). The restaurant was famous in the area and has a very long history of soba. They even cooked for the Royal Family, when the Royal Family visited Kyoto. They also sell their own made biscuits and cookies. We were brought up to 2nd level and i was so happy i can eat my breakfast and lunch finally. We really took almost 3 or 4 hours to get to this place, cos by the time we reached there was already past 3 pm. I ordered a Ho-Rai Soba Set, which the soba came in a form of 5 stacks and there was a plate of different toppings (seaweeds, eggs, prawns, etc). My friend ordered a prawns ebi rice bowl with a bowl of soba too. For my set, there was a piece of instructions in English on how you should eat the soda. I noticed the ladies on the next table got their instructions in Japanese. I like the soba very much...and this is the first time i actually eat soba noodles (i don't even eat in Singapore). The food was yummy. And for my set, there was a small teapot and a teacup with a sakura blossom flower in it. The tea was to be drank after you finished the soba. It was refreshing and my friend likes it. After the mains, we looked at the desserts menu and ordered a red bead with 'glass' jelly. It was yummy too, not sure what was the glass jelly was made of, but it was really transparent and smooth. And the red bean was nice....We also took their matchboxes too...heheee....

Green Tea drink & Dessert

After the yummy meal, we went down to pay for our meal and we also bought some of their biscuits and cookies. We also bought a packet of red bean buns (it was nice!!). After that, we left and tried to figure out how to go the Gion street. So we took the subway back to Higashiyama Station and this time, we went to the travel information counter to check first. The staff was telling us to walk 2 stations away to the place. Then i noticed there were 3 guys also looking for the same place as us, so i was joking with my friend said to follow them, they were going to the same place as us. But when we came out from the station behind the guys, they were also quite confused on which direction to walk...hahaha...So we turned the other way and walked on our own until we came upon a bus stop. So i checked on the buses and noticed there were some buses going to Gion street. So we waited for the bus to come to take to the street. Finally, we ended up in Gion street, the correct one but it was already dark although it was like 5 or 6 pm. But we just walked on the streets and looked at the shops, there were many people on the streets too.  We saw alot of restaurants there too and people started to queue too. Then we came to the Gion Corner sign but we walked ahead to a temple. The temple had also closed for the day, so we just walked round for a while and then left to walk on the shops streets. We came about a green tea shop, where it was selling mocha drinks and desserts. It really looked very yummy there and there were many people buying it too. The shop name is Japanese Tea Tsujiri and there were seats on the 2nd floor. The dessert was good and their drinks were also nice to drink, best of all, there was wifi too. So we took our time to enjoy the wifi and the food...hehehee....

Ninja Costumes

Shabu-Shabu Hotpot

Unlimited of Pork

After this, we continued walking on the streets until we came upon Takashiyama building where we went in to explore. It was very big, it was having 7 or 8 levels in total. I bought a notepad from Moleskine and even saw Tempur pillows having luck bags (but very expensive still)...hohohoo....After that, we continued walking on the streets, the shopping area was soooo big, we kept walking and walking and there were still sooo many shops along the streets and on both sides some more. We came upon an alley streets, with more and more smaller shops in it. Then something caught my attention inside a corner, it was a ninja restaurant and it was selling all you can eat buffet sabu-sabu for 90 mins. So we went inside and ordered only pork sabu sabu. I was expecting the restaurant to be more lively with some ninja actions but it was dead quiet and there was no ninja action (abit disapoointed).  Anyway we had our sabu sabu there, the pork was thin and nice and there were some free fried snacks, My friend targeted on the edamame most, anyway we took our time to eat too and the staffs didn't chase us out too. When my friend called for the bill, we waited for some time before the staff came back and gave us a glass of beer. We were so puzzled as why the staff gave us beer, so i asked my friend did she call for bill or beer? Hahahaa....the staff thought we wanted beer instead of the bill. We had a good laugh on this...hohoho....After the dinner, it was past 9 pm and all the shops had already closed when we came out from the restaurant. Then we walked a long way to the subway station where we had to transfer to the JR line to go back to our hotel. We really had a wonderful and fun day today and we both had our last hot bath and coffee in the hotel too as tomorrow we were be moving to Osaka city next....

Hotel Stayed:
Hotel Tetora Otsu

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Fushimi Inari Taisha 伏見稲荷大社, Japapn Trip (Day 7)

2nd January 2015, Friday

View outside Hotel Room

Breakfast

Today, we woke up abit late and luckily, the snow had stopped, and everywhere was covered with snow. We got ready and went downstairs to have our breakfast. The breakfast buffet was with simple dishes, not much food. We took our time to have our breakfast and then we left around 9 plus. Then we took the JR line to Fushimi Inari Shrine. We had to take the JR line back to Kyoto station and then changed to the Nara line, roughly 3 stops away. The train was packed with people, and when we alighted at Inari station, it was crowded with people. It was so crowded until we can't really walk out of the station. Slowly, we made our way to the shrine, there were a lot of food stalls before the shrine. There were snow around and the ground was also very wet. For this shrine, there were 2 fox statues standing in front of the shrine (where the foxes were the messengers of the God of Rice). And here, the famous attraction was the vermilion torii gates and there was thousand of the gates. After we paid respect in the main shrine and we went walking through the torii gates. It was a long way and it covered the whole round of Mount Inari, it took us about 2 hours to climb to the top.

Fox statue covered with snow

Tojii Gates

The two dense rows of torii gates of Senbon Torii

View from Yotsutsuji intersection

We had to climb a lot of steps while walking through the many red gates, at a point, the gates were divided into 2 ways, where you can choose to go left or right. We just followed the crowd and continued walking, took some of the snow up to play along the way too...hehehe....And when i turned around to see the gates, there were words engraved in each gate. Along the way, there were other smaller shrines too where there were many people paid respect too. At half way of the route, we reached the Yotsutsuji intersection where we saw the view of whole Kyoto. We just stood there and watched the view for a few minutes, we had to left too as there were many people around. Then we continued climbing up the steps to the top and finally we reached on the top. There was a shrine on the top, and there was a very small sign at the side where it indicated we reached the top of Mount Inari. There were also candles and food offerings to pay respect for the foxes. My friend thought the food were to buy to own to eat, not for the foxes. We queued up to pay respects to the shrine, and then we walked down on the other round. But the more we climbed down, there were ice on the steps which we cannot walk down due to our rubber shoes and there were no dry steps for us to walk down too. So we had to walk back the same way how we climbed up as there were more dry steps. If not, it should be going up from one way and down the other way to complete the whole round.

High Steam Pressure to roast the chestnuts

Hot Chocolate Drinks

Snowing outside the station

Going down the steps was much easy than going up...hahaha...We bought an ice cream too and the staff gave us a fortune paper which was of course, in Japanese. We asked the staff whether is it good, then she said it was good, so we took the paper home. Then we stood there to look at the view while eating the ice cream. After that, we walked down to the food stalls. There were still many people there, cannot even walk in opposite direction. So we just walked and see what nice foods were being sold around, there were games stalls too. There was a stall selling roasted chestnuts too and they used very high pressure to cook it. We got 1 bag to try, it was not bad...Then we also got a small hot drink called Kocha, sweet and refreshing. And then we walked slowly to the train station, it was already packed with people. The staffs don't allow passengers to go into the train platforms before the train arrived. We reached back to Kyoto station at about 3 plus and then we walked in the station. Then we went into a small cafe to have some hot chocolate drinks and played with their wifi...hehehe...After staying some time in the cafe, we noticed that it has started to snow outside. Then we went outside and started to enjoy ourselves in the snow...hahaha...

Big Apples

Snow Crab..Very sweet!!

Tuna & Salmon Sashimi..Nice!!

After playing for some time, we went into Istean basement to see what to buy for dinner. And we saw snow crabs, fresh tuna and fresh salmon, etc and all looked yummy! And of course, we bought a snow crabs, a packet of tuna and salmon sashimi and a very big apple (which the apple ended up back in Singapore..hohoho). And i also bought 2 cooked chicken wings too...hehehe...After shopping for all the food, we made our way back to our hotel to eat our food. We even boiled the eggs (stole back last night) to eat...hehehe... And the snow got heavier and the wind got stronger, more fierce than last night. Luckily we came back early today. After the nice dinner, i went to have a nice hot bath again...hehhee...Tomorrow is another long day.

Hotel Stayed:
Hotel Tetora Otsu

Kyoto 京都, Japan Trip (Day 6)

1st January 2015, Thursday

Lucky bags from BIC Camera

Yawn....Happy New Year, Everyone!! It's the first day of 2015 and today we need to travel down to Kyoto, our next destination. Woke up at 8 am and we just missed our reserved train to Kyoto, so we just took our time and packed our luggage and then checked out from the hotel. Then we made our way to Tokyo station. But on the transfer station, we went to BIC Camera checking out their lucky bags...hehehee...It was camera and video-cam bags, and the items were random, depending on your luck. We got 1 camera bag for $30,000 plus yen and we got a Nikon D3320 DSLR camera. We also bought a lucky bag from Adidas, which consisted of a jacket, a track pants, a scarf, a polo shirt and some more. Then we went upstairs to look for NDS console set as it was cheaper there. My friend went down to buy another camera lucky bag as we were thinking of selling the camera sets when we were back in Singapore.Anyway, we got ourselves stuck there shopping for hours before we left to the train station...hohohoho.....

Once we reached Tokyo station, we went to the JR office to make seats reservation for our next train to Kyoto, which was at 2.33 pm. Then i bought a unagi bento to eat on the train, $2310 yen..not very cheap. Then we boarded the train with all our stuffs...so many bags to carry. I just ate the bento as the train moved, we passed by Nagoya too, some towns we passed were snowing heavily and some towns we passed were having bright sunlight with no snow. We also passed by Mount Fuji, it was having snow on top of the volcano. We reached Kyoto station around 5 plus, and it was snowing in the train station (as it was open ceiling). And we went to check out the streets, there were snow everywhere and ice too. So we decided to go check in to hotel first before going for dinner, then we transferred to another JR line to go to Otsu station (2 stations away from Kyoto). It was really cold and the wind was blowing very strong. There were many posters on snow crabs, made you feel like going to eat. We were really jumping in the cold, luckily the hotel lift is connected to the JR station. But when we were going to exit from the station, there was no staffs there to show them our JR passes. We were so puzzled and my friend went to the other side to ask the staffs in the office. I got hear my friend's voice over the speakers too..hehehe...Then she came back and pressed onto the intercom machine there. We thought we can just pass through the gate, but when i tried to pass through, the gate door blocked me. Then my friend pressed on the intercom machine at the side and told the stuff that we had our JR passes and showed our passes over the camera. Then we took the lift up to level 2 to the hotel lobby.

Hotel Bed

Tracks covered with snow

Kyoto Tower

Then we checked in to our hotel and the staffs can't speak much English well but we still can understand them. The room was much bigger here and the toilet and bathtub was also much nicer. And we got a nice view outside the room, all covered with snow...heheee....Then i went to the toilet and accidentally locked the toilet door from outside. Hahaha...the toilet can't be opened now...so we called to get the staff the door. A young lady came up to our room and then she tried to open the door and was also puzzled why the door got locked. Then she suddenly ran off after telling us that she will be back later. Later another guy staff (who helped us to do our check in) came and helped us unlock the door. Then he also told us how to lock and unlock the door, after the drama, we rested for a while before heading back to Kyoto station for dinner. Before going to take the train, we went to the reception to ask for the breakfast meal for tomorrow and we also enquired on the places to eat during the next few days as it was new year period. The staff took us all the places are closed the next few days. So we booked breakfast meals for tomorrow, my friend asked the staff whether there was warm food in the breakfast buffet. The staff doesn't get it, so my friend asked her whether there was noodle, rice or eggs. She managed to tell us that there was eggs included, cos she can't speak English well but we can see her trying very hard to communicate with her. Somehow we did find her very cute....hahaa...Anyway she kept saying sorry to us when we left the hotel for dinner. We took the JR train back to Kyoto station and it was still very cold outside. So we tried to find food in the station, the station was quite big and there were a lot of restaurants. We went up 10th level in Istean, this level was a ramen street. There were a lot of ramen restaurants in the level. So we walked 1 round to see which ramen restaurant to try.

Fried Rice...Must Try!!

Ramen

Fish Cutlet

We went to a ramen restaurant and bought the items using the vouchers machine. Then we queued for table. We ordered a ramen with pork, a fried rice and a fish cutlet. When we sat down, we noticed there was a basket of raw eggs on the table. Then my friend was saying the raw egg to beat in the ramen and i also saw other people beat the raw egg into their ramen. The fried rice was super nice and i also liked the fish cutlet. The ramen soup was abit thick but the bacon was very tender. My friend even smuggled 2 eggs back to the hotel...hohoho...After the nice dinner, we went back to the hotel. We exited on the other side to take a walk around the surroundings. There were some workers pushing the snow away from the walkways in front of the station. Then we started to play with the snow and even made a small snowman. We also saw a small blue car with a block of snow on top of the car...hohohoho....After that, we went back to the hotel and my friend went and asked for coffee. After that, i went and 'onsen' inside the bathroom...lol...the hot water was very shiok, after that i felt super hot and looked red after the bath...hohoho...Had to open the window to let the cold wind in to cool down. The snow was also snowing heavily and the wind was still blowing strong. Worry about tomorrow that we cannot go out due to heavy snow.

Hotel Stayed:
Hotel Tetora Otsu