Wednesday, October 4, 2006

Day 2 In Tokyo

the day started out, me waking up at 10am Honolulu time (5am in Japan), but I was tired and went back to sleep but couldn`t because of the roaring of the loud cars right outside. My aunt`s house is right next to a 4-way intersection road. then fall asleep (somehow...) and woke up at 11:50 am hawaii time (6:50am japan time) and I wasn`t feeling sick as i was last night! WOO HOO!! XD but still had a little warm head and stuffy nose =p we went out, took a train ride form ikeburo station to shinjuku station and it was during rush hour too! O_o when we went inside Ikeburo station it was full of people! O_O We had to swim against the current of people just to get to the ticket stand and get our tickets. bu luckly after getting our tickets and going to the gate was with the current we had fun riding with the current XD (jokes) As we went from Iketburo to Shinjuku station and all the stationsin between it, get more crowded and crowded! I actually get to experience the squashyness of the train during rush hour! D= everyone going to work or school or where ever thwy wanted to go. and My left hard started to ge numb and having no blood circulation while I was holding on to the rail hanging from the ceiling. and my hand was seriously red when I exited from the train I can feel the pain in my arm too. and you should have seen how empty the train was after we arrived in shinjuku and the stair was crowded while exiting from the gates and you can`t even tell where the stairs are! (Shinjuku is one of busyest stations in Japan) then we transfered to another line to take a romance car to Hakone station (don`t ask why the train is named that way.. ._.;;;) andi t was over an hour long!!! or maybe it was 1 hour & 30mins - 2 hours or something like that. we were to an area in the mountains! then we took a bus ride that was... what?.... uhh... 30 mins long (that was total guess, I don`t remember because I was sleeping during the most of the ride). and we arrived to a popular tourist stop at a lake which is a good place to see mount Fujij! =3 we took a 40 min ferry ride from one side of the lake to the other and the ferry was a pairite ship! well, there were 2 different pairite ship ferrys one that was purple and the other one was ride and white. we took the red and white one. There was a normal ferry ride too. but we mom decided to take the pairite one, because she thoughtit would be more fun. (there was nothing special about the pairite ship ferry, the one we rode on had a first class cabin and it had the stand where you walk up the stairs and the person says "land oh!" and it was quite small too and cramped because everyone wanted to go up and it had 2 plastic statues of a captin and a sailor). the boat ride was really windy and I almost freezed to death by standing up on the stand, so I came down used my mom`s thin jacket. (because she was using my think jacket <_<). then we walked arounded and saw a muesem and see how everything was like in the old days and the funny thing was, we saw a air conditioner in one of them and a lamp in other XD. so I was like " wow, I neer they even had AC and lamps back then". XD After that we took another bus ride to where sulfer is and where the mountain makes steam (and also where they boil the eggs in the sulfer). I was wonder why as we hiked up there I smell roiten eggs. ._. There was a shop near the ponds of boiling sulfer water and one of them they used to boiled the eggs and they sell them. the outside of teh egg shells were all black and the inside of the shell were gray but the white yolk and yellow yolk looked pretty much normal. we bought some and my mom tried it but I never did XD;;;; (I didn`t feel like eating them). as you went a littler high up the trail pass the pond that was boiling eggs, you can smell the sulfer from the other ponds higher up, and I almost coughed, so I went down quickly back to the pond of sulfer that was boiling eggs. XD and there were streams from the pond of sulfer and we touched them and it was warm. we then took a cable car ride from one side of the mountain to the other and as we were riding we saw below us contruction of some kind of water breakers. (my guess because of a mudslide because you can see where the rocks and dirt slided from and one the routes to the ponds of sulfer were closed due to mub slides). after that, we took another cabler car ride from the top of the mountain to the bottom. we took a small train ride from the same station to Hakone station to take the romance train again back to Shinjuku. We thought the ride back on the romace train would be shorter because it would only make one stop at a station from Hakone to Shinjuku, but really it was about the same or even longer. because from hakone to the one stop was already about 1 hour or a little over than 1 hour!!! omg!! I thought I was gonna die out of boredom! @_@;;;; when we finally arrived in Shinjuku we walked aound to see if there any good shops to buy from. one of them had tons of contumes and such and it could be good for cosplaying and such. and there were tons of maid costumes and school girl uniforms! o_o;;;; jeez, I shocked but nothing really to buy for helping me cosplay as conan ;-; (I know I`m such a DC fan XD) we then took the train back from SHinluku to ikeburo and went to the book store that was erlly close to my aunt`s house and bought DC vol. 55 and Negima classmate Fanbook (for my childhood friend Angel-WIng again! XD) and I was looking for the shounen sunday magazine (because it has DC XD) but I couldn`t find it T-T I`m hoping to find it next time though! =D and guess what? my aunt bought pocky for me! XD oh well, have to go sleep. my mom is naggine me plus it`s 11:15pm in Japan (4:14am in hawaii). Take care everyone! =3

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