Day two in Tokyo – MAYDAY concert!! I think I’ve waited for this day since I got the tickets back last year. I was so excited to finally watch them perform live! Backtrack to the morning – Krista and I managed to pull ourselves out of bed after crashing out the night before. I walked down to McD’s to grab breakfast for both of us. Krista insisted that all she wanted was an orange juice, but I ended up…
Flying to Tokyo the next morning, I had to get up at 5:15 to take the taxi to Central. My uncle was heading to work for a morning shift, so I ended up tagging along with him to the airport. After getting checked in, I had around two hours to kill before my flight. I ended up going lounge hopping. (The last chance to use my elite status before it expired at the end of February). I went to the…
With only a few hours left in our Kyushu vacation, we spent our remaining time in Fukuoka shopping at Hakata Station. We went inside Tokyu Hands and Amu Plaza for most of the morning to browse through the shops. Afterward we ate lunch at a restaurant which serves basashi. I was actually super full from breakfast still, so I barely had enough space for another meal. But since my uncle really wanted to try it, we had no choice but to oblige. (And…
For our last full day in Kyushu, we continued from where we left off in Nagasaki. We spent most of the morning exploring the grounds at Glover Garden. We took the tram over and entered the garden via the ropeway entrance. It was really high up, so we could see the Nagasaki harbour below. Glover Garden itself was really beautiful. It used to be the residence of a prominent merchant from Scotland and is now the oldest surviving Western style…
The day after Mojiko we went on our last excursion in Kyushu to Nagasaki. We packed our overnight bags and loaded up on the train in the morning. Once we got to Nagasaki we dropped our luggage in the coin lockers and bought day passes for the streetcar. The streetcars in Nagasaki were very convenient and I found it was a leisurely way to explore the city. Our first trip was to the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the…