On the last day, we woke up raring to go home. Our trip was tiring yet I didn’t feel like I did anything too amazing. I felt my trip lacked culture. All we did were go to a couple of malls and eat non-Japanese food. What’s so Japanese about that? Still, I was optimistic for this last day as Miko said we were gonna go sightseeing.
First was Tokyo Tower. Meh. Kind of like an Eiffel tower. It was a gloomy, rainy day and you couldn’t see much from the top.
They had a look-down window which scared the crap out of me. It made me nervous just to stand on it. I’m deathly afraid of heights.
The most interesting thing I discovered was this ornament tree where you hang wishes of love. I found two kilig messages.
Souvenir Shopping. Can you believe they have Hello Kitty Dried Squid? Weird.
It was really cold but I couldn’t resist buying ice cream. They don’t have Baskin N Robbins in the Philippines anymore.
We rushed to the Asakusa temple afterwards. It was a gorgeous temple, very impressive. We had to partake in the customs prior to entering.
1) Wash hands and mouth with water from this specific fountain.
2) Fan holy smoke into our faces to heal us.
In short, I was washed and barbecued. After which, I smelled nice and roasty. At least, I was temple-ready.
Creepy Terra Cotta Guards.
Inside the temple.
The best part of this experience was the fortune telling which I will blog about separately. All I can say is I got Best Fortune!!! 🙂 Happiness! I danced around like an idiot.
There’s a shopping street in front of the temple which seemed lovely and had many nice things.
I would like a Samurai Sword please.
And a large stuffed Yoshi.
Unfortunately, we didn’t have time!! We only had about 20 minutes to go through this shopping street. This also ticked me off because we wasted time in so many other random places like malls when we could have come here on the first day. What kind of tour operator plans like this? Goodness.
To make matters worse, it was raining and crowded.
Ginormous lantern that is in all the tour books.
So we rushed onto the bus to go to Narita. Since we arrived kinda early, we hit up a nearby mall called AEON to kill time. Again.. time I coulda spent at Nakamise shopping street. But no. I was in another Mall. Sigh.
Matching cold-weather hoodies.
We had our last round of Japanese food…
….and finished it up with some crepes. Yummy.
Mom took a nap on a bench and here’s dad listening to her snore.
We went around the mall but my mom and brother were too tired.
I used my bag for the first time at the Airport.I was so happy 🙂
Flavored Kit Kats.
The flight was delayed due to inclement weather. We took off about 3 hours late and arrived in Manila past midnight. We got home past 1 am. Despite its shortcomings, we had a fun trip 🙂 I am 5 pounds heavier and ??? pesos poorer because of it but the memories, priceless.
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