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I'm double posting because i'm boss that way. = 3=
Starting off with a random ad that i seen on the tv~
Daburu tenchou~!
Day 7 - Shinjuku & Nakano
This is one of the days that we actually had time to cover 2 areas, mainly due to the motive of us heading to one of the areas. (You'll know later.)
A basic run down of the 2 places.
Shinjuku - Mainly known as a place of relaxation, it boosts a higher amount of pubs than most other places (No kidding, an entire section of the main street is filled with it). Buisnessmen are a common sight during night, mostly drunk.
and also, the place is most famous for Kabukicho
Basically, it's a drink and smex station. Just read your "know-how"s to prevent your wife/girlfriend from finding out.
and also...
Nakano - Basically, a small city with around.... 300k people? Why did we even come here, you'll see.
So.
Nooby and i reads. (I know, you guys are shocked.) This is a more personal destination location for us as it was where the main office of Kinokuniya is located. There's only 2 shops in singapore, and we visit there quite frequently during the weekends, for me being for the warhammer 40k novels and occassional mangas and Nooby with his werid books <-- he reads everything.
Thus, it's really no arguement that we had to visit it.
Onwards, To kino! (Shinjuku)
(As usual, unless you wana get kicked out of the bulding. Do not take pictures of the internal of any shops. It's bloody rude. Ask first.)
What do you expect really? The books to start crawling out of the shelfs to perform a dance for us? No. Kinokuniya main building, like most bookstores was full of literature.
Sorting itself to 3-5 levels of the different genres, the upper levels are more for events themselves (It happens quite oftenly, just that the day that we arrived didn't had any...zzzz). If a person would wish to find a book that's out of print, this place would probably be your best bet.
Quite a neutral place really. As all popular stores go, most of the old stuff are tugged away to hard to locate places and the newer ones up front, kinda sad in my opinion. The smell of books still makes me dizzy when i think about it... :3
anyway, we toured around the place till lunch where we headed to a pub for lunch. Pubs kinda co-act as a restraunt of sorts in japan, them actually serving REAL food than finger food at reasonable prices. Be noted though, All pubs are free to smoke, though it annoys me, the food did made up to it. REALLY WELL.
Touring and lunch~
Once again, under the 1k yen belt. What a steal~ Best yet, free flow of rice!
Nooby loves his veggies and i love my fish. It's a tough choice really for me. Beef or fish? The burst of meat juice for a freshly roasted beef or that simple bland contentness that only a well grilled fish and provide.... What do you think?
Best lunch yet. (There will yet be a reason for us to return to Shinjuku, till then stay tune for it.)
With us so utterly filled, we walked around a lil more before heading to Nakano. Oh sheesh, What a devil of a place Nakano is... "Back to you pics"
Journey to the Nakano.
...Nakano gave a very rural feeling to me. It runs old, despite being considered a developed town. Here and there you'd find rundown structures, or old fashioned buildings (I found a rat's nest. Whut the hell). But somehow, i found myself liking that place than loathing it, The places is somewhat a minor opposite of Akasaka with it being more of a new --> old as the opposite of where i am.
Nakano
And we finally reached our destination. Nakano Broadway.
Pics of Nakano Broadway
4 levels of "WTFISTHISIDON'TEVEN".
Nakano Boardway is a place of archeological value to every fan of the oldies. It's the place to find the rarest of the rare at the cheapest to the most wallet destorying prices. One can expect to spend hours, depening on just how detailed one searches (in this case, we spent 3.5 hours on 2 levels. what the-)
Devil place of a devil. We truly wasn't prepare TRULY. Poor men we are.
In the end. Let the loot do the talk.
Nooby doesn't want to show you guys his "SECRET" loot. Go deframe him. = 3=
...Seriously. Devil.
Anyway. Day 7 - Akiba chapter, Gundam cafe. (Stay tune.)
Starting off with a random ad that i seen on the tv~
Daburu tenchou~!
Day 7 - Shinjuku & Nakano
This is one of the days that we actually had time to cover 2 areas, mainly due to the motive of us heading to one of the areas. (You'll know later.)
A basic run down of the 2 places.
Shinjuku - Mainly known as a place of relaxation, it boosts a higher amount of pubs than most other places (No kidding, an entire section of the main street is filled with it). Buisnessmen are a common sight during night, mostly drunk.
and also, the place is most famous for Kabukicho
Basically, it's a drink and smex station. Just read your "know-how"s to prevent your wife/girlfriend from finding out.
and also...
Nakano - Basically, a small city with around.... 300k people? Why did we even come here, you'll see.
So.
Nooby and i reads. (I know, you guys are shocked.) This is a more personal destination location for us as it was where the main office of Kinokuniya is located. There's only 2 shops in singapore, and we visit there quite frequently during the weekends, for me being for the warhammer 40k novels and occassional mangas and Nooby with his werid books <-- he reads everything.
Thus, it's really no arguement that we had to visit it.
Onwards, To kino! (Shinjuku)
Spoiler:
(As usual, unless you wana get kicked out of the bulding. Do not take pictures of the internal of any shops. It's bloody rude. Ask first.)
What do you expect really? The books to start crawling out of the shelfs to perform a dance for us? No. Kinokuniya main building, like most bookstores was full of literature.
Sorting itself to 3-5 levels of the different genres, the upper levels are more for events themselves (It happens quite oftenly, just that the day that we arrived didn't had any...zzzz). If a person would wish to find a book that's out of print, this place would probably be your best bet.
Quite a neutral place really. As all popular stores go, most of the old stuff are tugged away to hard to locate places and the newer ones up front, kinda sad in my opinion. The smell of books still makes me dizzy when i think about it... :3
anyway, we toured around the place till lunch where we headed to a pub for lunch. Pubs kinda co-act as a restraunt of sorts in japan, them actually serving REAL food than finger food at reasonable prices. Be noted though, All pubs are free to smoke, though it annoys me, the food did made up to it. REALLY WELL.
Touring and lunch~
Spoiler:
Once again, under the 1k yen belt. What a steal~ Best yet, free flow of rice!
Nooby loves his veggies and i love my fish. It's a tough choice really for me. Beef or fish? The burst of meat juice for a freshly roasted beef or that simple bland contentness that only a well grilled fish and provide.... What do you think?
Best lunch yet. (There will yet be a reason for us to return to Shinjuku, till then stay tune for it.)
With us so utterly filled, we walked around a lil more before heading to Nakano. Oh sheesh, What a devil of a place Nakano is... "Back to you pics"
Journey to the Nakano.
Spoiler:
...Nakano gave a very rural feeling to me. It runs old, despite being considered a developed town. Here and there you'd find rundown structures, or old fashioned buildings (I found a rat's nest. Whut the hell). But somehow, i found myself liking that place than loathing it, The places is somewhat a minor opposite of Akasaka with it being more of a new --> old as the opposite of where i am.
Nakano
Spoiler:
And we finally reached our destination. Nakano Broadway.
Pics of Nakano Broadway
Spoiler:
4 levels of "WTFISTHISIDON'TEVEN".
Nakano Boardway is a place of archeological value to every fan of the oldies. It's the place to find the rarest of the rare at the cheapest to the most wallet destorying prices. One can expect to spend hours, depening on just how detailed one searches (in this case, we spent 3.5 hours on 2 levels. what the-)
Devil place of a devil. We truly wasn't prepare TRULY. Poor men we are.
In the end. Let the loot do the talk.
Spoiler:
Nooby doesn't want to show you guys his "SECRET" loot. Go deframe him. = 3=
...Seriously. Devil.
Anyway. Day 7 - Akiba chapter, Gundam cafe. (Stay tune.)
P.S - Internet is now my slave after i made it 2chan's bitch.
Anyway... Lets go for a megaupdate....
Day 5 - Shibuya
Shibuya can be considered one of tokyo's busiest area and also it's main shopping area, clothes, Shoes... you name it, they probably have it. It is mutually agreed upon by the both of us that this place is tuned to the female crowd than the men. So unless you plan to spend the day shopping for clothes, I suggust that you find a second venue (In this case, Shibuya didn't catch our attention for long.)
Back to the topic. Tokyo was forecasted to be cloudy at day 5, meaning, it was freezing more than usual. Slow engines that we are, it took us about 10am before we decided to head out.
*Trainsareawesometrainsaresmexlolololololol*
Our aim for Shibuya is mainly for the sights. That which Shibuya has 2 things to offer, both of them just meters away from each other. Find it however can be a hassle at best, since the station has so many exits and the sheer amount of human traffic coming in and out will drive all but the most pudgent person against the wave.
That being said, we exited the wrong way. T 3T ... By a pretty long distance as we were to find out later on.
SCREW IT (FOR NOW). We need our breakfast! >:(
Shibuya is good for another thing, Lunch. A reason why we skipped out breakfast in the first place.
Ignoring that fact that it's dinner's a tailor made wallet buster, expect lunchs to be below 1k yen half the time. In which this case, we went to a random mall's basement to enjoy some quality western/japanese food.
Pics.
Total bill? Around 1.7k, What a freaking steal.
...
After touring about the station, we did finally found a map which we would to discover just how much of a talent we have on navigation, we stumbled upon a lady in her mids asking for donation for the earthquake that hit japan the year back.
(Mind you, i have worked in donation agencies before. Scum bags, all of them.)
considering that i've never attempted to donate for the incident and that the lady did seem like a nice person, both nooby and i donated 500 yen each. Which somehow we was to continue talking for the next 10 minutes and to be even invited to a motivational concert on the coming week (That we never attended.)
Nice lady. Jap people are rather easy to socialize with, talent or culture?
ANYWAY, we finally reached our first stop. Hachiko.
It was about the time that it too started dizzling again. Screw that, i needed photos of that dog. The sculpture was something that i pointed out that i have to see in japan. Sorry, you ain't gonna see photos of us. = 3=
Earlier mention, the second objective was merely meters next to Hachiko.
The Shinjuku Crossing
This place is quite a popular spot for the films in japan , One of the more "famous" once in the anime crowd being death note. Darn those umbrellas.
With that, most of our trip was merely spent sightseeing aroudn the area.
Pics.
Well, We got home a tad earlier than usual. (Around 3-4) While nooby took a nap, I decidede to head to Akasaka midtown to take the photos that i couldn't at day 1.
Journey to Akasaka Midtown
...And the bloody batteries died when i reached a nice part... (Bloody utraman-lvl cam.)
I'll post again after i get a lil rest.... = 3=
Day 6 - Shinjuku/Nakano, stay tuned~
Anyway... Lets go for a megaupdate....
Day 5 - Shibuya
Shibuya can be considered one of tokyo's busiest area and also it's main shopping area, clothes, Shoes... you name it, they probably have it. It is mutually agreed upon by the both of us that this place is tuned to the female crowd than the men. So unless you plan to spend the day shopping for clothes, I suggust that you find a second venue (In this case, Shibuya didn't catch our attention for long.)
Back to the topic. Tokyo was forecasted to be cloudy at day 5, meaning, it was freezing more than usual. Slow engines that we are, it took us about 10am before we decided to head out.
*Trainsareawesometrainsaresmexlolololololol*
Our aim for Shibuya is mainly for the sights. That which Shibuya has 2 things to offer, both of them just meters away from each other. Find it however can be a hassle at best, since the station has so many exits and the sheer amount of human traffic coming in and out will drive all but the most pudgent person against the wave.
That being said, we exited the wrong way. T 3T ... By a pretty long distance as we were to find out later on.
SCREW IT (FOR NOW). We need our breakfast! >:(
Shibuya is good for another thing, Lunch. A reason why we skipped out breakfast in the first place.
Ignoring that fact that it's dinner's a tailor made wallet buster, expect lunchs to be below 1k yen half the time. In which this case, we went to a random mall's basement to enjoy some quality western/japanese food.
Pics.
Spoiler:
Total bill? Around 1.7k, What a freaking steal.
...
After touring about the station, we did finally found a map which we would to discover just how much of a talent we have on navigation, we stumbled upon a lady in her mids asking for donation for the earthquake that hit japan the year back.
(Mind you, i have worked in donation agencies before. Scum bags, all of them.)
considering that i've never attempted to donate for the incident and that the lady did seem like a nice person, both nooby and i donated 500 yen each. Which somehow we was to continue talking for the next 10 minutes and to be even invited to a motivational concert on the coming week (That we never attended.)
Nice lady. Jap people are rather easy to socialize with, talent or culture?
ANYWAY, we finally reached our first stop. Hachiko.
It was about the time that it too started dizzling again. Screw that, i needed photos of that dog. The sculpture was something that i pointed out that i have to see in japan. Sorry, you ain't gonna see photos of us. = 3=
Earlier mention, the second objective was merely meters next to Hachiko.
The Shinjuku Crossing
Spoiler:
This place is quite a popular spot for the films in japan , One of the more "famous" once in the anime crowd being death note. Darn those umbrellas.
With that, most of our trip was merely spent sightseeing aroudn the area.
Pics.
Spoiler:
Well, We got home a tad earlier than usual. (Around 3-4) While nooby took a nap, I decidede to head to Akasaka midtown to take the photos that i couldn't at day 1.
Journey to Akasaka Midtown
Spoiler:
...And the bloody batteries died when i reached a nice part... (Bloody utraman-lvl cam.)
I'll post again after i get a lil rest.... = 3=
Day 6 - Shinjuku/Nakano, stay tuned~
artcellrox wrote...
Ishihara... nice...And FUCK YOU, HIRO! SHARE THAT VC3 WITH US NON-JAPANESE FOLKS! ヽ(ï½`çš¿†²ï½)ﾉ
Gehhhh... Well, i'm considering if i should get that new psp modded, If so.... maybe i'll get it ripped?
Btw, the internet's being a tiny bitch in the hotel apartment. I can't seem to upload photos without it cutting out half the time. Patience.
Gahhhh... Japan, you ain't suppose to have internet problemsssssss!!!!
Day 4
Day 4 was practically the foulest/most pleasant out of all the current days.
Why? Because it freaking rained, Which meant NO PHOTOS (Near nil as it turned out. A $800 still can't be friends with water). Heavy rain in japan could be compared to a mere drizzle in Singapore (no kidding). However, with the combination of the low temperatures as normal days already are, the degrees plunged further to the point that our breaths could be seen.
Anyway...Akihabara is a big place, our first raid there has apparently only gotten us 3/5(?) of the area conquered. Visual novel(Eroge) hunters that we are, there was no way that we wouldn't head there again to leave the unknowns unexplored.
We started off heading to sega arcade, The red building if you recall at day 2. Leaving such a building unexplored in sinful! SINFUL!
One unique feature in japan arcades is that aside from the family friendly sections, pretty much everywhere else is a "ok-to-smoke" area. Me having a vendetta with the cancer sticks pretty much went sour. Not a very good start in my side. D:
That aside. With Ufo machines to catch your favourite figurines, The latest fighter games (P4!), Battle mecha(Border break) and even card interactive RTSes not released to any countries, Hell, Arcades are boss here. If only there weren't smokers...Oh yea, there were sections where wifi is available, meaning an instant spot for Monster hunters players.
But no... The arcades aren't the best thing to happen to us. There's more.
...
..
.
One of such places will be Mandarake.
There can be so many VNs and only so much your wallet can handle. If one doesn't mind a used copy, you'll probably find one there in decent prices. But the golden rule in Akiba also applies here, Never buy it without comparing prices with other shops first.
8 levels of bowels trembling ambushes of things you'll never expect confronting you. Mandarake will literally destory any but the most steel minded people who think they can survive all 8 levels without buying a single product by the end of the day.
In which this case ,Nooby (TEE HEE)
Further details to be explained at the loot section, Mandarake basically destoryed our wallets (in a (un)plesant way). Consuming hours in this building while hiding from the "heavy rain" (pft.) that lasted for hours (ended at 4pm if i recalled correctly.) The place pretty much took up almost all the time that we initially planned for other places and left us in a state not too different from used batteries.
Thus, wondering about. We found the second best thing to happen. A kebab store.
We initially wanted to head to a maids cafe, more specially, one named "Little BSD". Due to the advertisement posters featuring ladies dressed in Monster hunter cosplays, pretty much an instant kill for any fan of the game like us. And also, Nooby just wanted to see me agonize, i simply can never get used/accept the idea of being addressed in those weird terms like "GOSHUJIN-SAMA!" ....*shiver*
But even though we did find it , the shop was not to be opened till late evening. Thus, we both dejected (not really. = 3= ) taken our attentions to the cries of a lady of "Delicious Kebabs, welcome!"
...
"Sensors on captain!"
"Awesome westerner woman, check."
"She's speaking japanese, Check."
"She's blonde, hell with the rest, we're going in! "
...
So apparently the store was run by a turkish man who has lived in the country for 19 years. The food being relatively cheap (500- 900 yen) and with a beautiful woman for eye candy. 2 words - Hell yea! (Once again, frak you rain. I needed pictures of her darn you!)
I ordered a Potato wrap kebab while Nooby ordered a Mix donburi (Rice bowel). But somehow, the uncle seem to have misheard my orders and gave me a potato meat salad. It looked good, and besides, it looked good.
Nooby's Mix donburi
...
Eating a hearty, meaty meal with a good friend in the middle of a cold rain was one of the best experiences i could ask for. Thus, we left Akiba in a better mood that we never expected to.
...
Loots from the day was extreme to say at least. For nooby, almost genocidal. Enough for him to be disowned, kicked out of the family, erased from records and to have every member brainwashed to never remember him. (Yea, it's that bad.)
Loots.
My humble little loot. Udon-ya's monhan erohon series has always gotten me crazy with the sheer details of his drawings. I owe him that much. Imperishable Night from the touhou series, because i've started off the path of no return from it.. And lasted Valkyrie Chronicles 3 E2, because it was one of the games that i can say that i truly enjoyed aside from MH.
And... As i said didn't i? Nooby's Loot should speak for himself.
Day 4
Day 4 was practically the foulest/most pleasant out of all the current days.
Why? Because it freaking rained, Which meant NO PHOTOS (Near nil as it turned out. A $800 still can't be friends with water). Heavy rain in japan could be compared to a mere drizzle in Singapore (no kidding). However, with the combination of the low temperatures as normal days already are, the degrees plunged further to the point that our breaths could be seen.
Anyway...Akihabara is a big place, our first raid there has apparently only gotten us 3/5(?) of the area conquered. Visual novel(Eroge) hunters that we are, there was no way that we wouldn't head there again to leave the unknowns unexplored.
We started off heading to sega arcade, The red building if you recall at day 2. Leaving such a building unexplored in sinful! SINFUL!
One unique feature in japan arcades is that aside from the family friendly sections, pretty much everywhere else is a "ok-to-smoke" area. Me having a vendetta with the cancer sticks pretty much went sour. Not a very good start in my side. D:
That aside. With Ufo machines to catch your favourite figurines, The latest fighter games (P4!), Battle mecha(Border break) and even card interactive RTSes not released to any countries, Hell, Arcades are boss here. If only there weren't smokers...Oh yea, there were sections where wifi is available, meaning an instant spot for Monster hunters players.
But no... The arcades aren't the best thing to happen to us. There's more.
...
..
.
One of such places will be Mandarake.
There can be so many VNs and only so much your wallet can handle. If one doesn't mind a used copy, you'll probably find one there in decent prices. But the golden rule in Akiba also applies here, Never buy it without comparing prices with other shops first.
8 levels of bowels trembling ambushes of things you'll never expect confronting you. Mandarake will literally destory any but the most steel minded people who think they can survive all 8 levels without buying a single product by the end of the day.
In which this case ,Nooby (TEE HEE)
Further details to be explained at the loot section, Mandarake basically destoryed our wallets (in a (un)plesant way). Consuming hours in this building while hiding from the "heavy rain" (pft.) that lasted for hours (ended at 4pm if i recalled correctly.) The place pretty much took up almost all the time that we initially planned for other places and left us in a state not too different from used batteries.
Thus, wondering about. We found the second best thing to happen. A kebab store.
We initially wanted to head to a maids cafe, more specially, one named "Little BSD". Due to the advertisement posters featuring ladies dressed in Monster hunter cosplays, pretty much an instant kill for any fan of the game like us. And also, Nooby just wanted to see me agonize, i simply can never get used/accept the idea of being addressed in those weird terms like "GOSHUJIN-SAMA!" ....*shiver*
But even though we did find it , the shop was not to be opened till late evening. Thus, we both dejected (not really. = 3= ) taken our attentions to the cries of a lady of "Delicious Kebabs, welcome!"
...
"Sensors on captain!"
"Awesome westerner woman, check."
"She's speaking japanese, Check."
"She's blonde, hell with the rest, we're going in! "
...
So apparently the store was run by a turkish man who has lived in the country for 19 years. The food being relatively cheap (500- 900 yen) and with a beautiful woman for eye candy. 2 words - Hell yea! (Once again, frak you rain. I needed pictures of her darn you!)
I ordered a Potato wrap kebab while Nooby ordered a Mix donburi (Rice bowel). But somehow, the uncle seem to have misheard my orders and gave me a potato meat salad. It looked good, and besides, it looked good.
Nooby's Mix donburi
...
Eating a hearty, meaty meal with a good friend in the middle of a cold rain was one of the best experiences i could ask for. Thus, we left Akiba in a better mood that we never expected to.
...
Loots from the day was extreme to say at least. For nooby, almost genocidal. Enough for him to be disowned, kicked out of the family, erased from records and to have every member brainwashed to never remember him. (Yea, it's that bad.)
Loots.
Spoiler:
My humble little loot. Udon-ya's monhan erohon series has always gotten me crazy with the sheer details of his drawings. I owe him that much. Imperishable Night from the touhou series, because i've started off the path of no return from it.. And lasted Valkyrie Chronicles 3 E2, because it was one of the games that i can say that i truly enjoyed aside from MH.
And... As i said didn't i? Nooby's Loot should speak for himself.
Spoiler:
