11/21/2018
This was the day that we’d experience the bigger and biggest cities of The Land of the Rising Sun. So today was also the day we “cashed out” that 7-day JR Pass, the epitome symbol of being a tourist in Japan. 😂
But first coffee before leaving Osaka. Something I noticed in Japan is that there are a lot of female baristas. Probably, 70% of the coffee places I’d been to, the baristas were women! Cool!
About the taste / scene of coffee in Japan, it’s like a political debate to me which I kinda don’t want to touch! Chos!

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Exes Baggage. We had 2 big luggage trolleys, and 1 hand-carry sized trolley. Too much luggage but it’s because Mark John, he got to have a back-up of the back-up of the back-up. 🤷🏽♀️
One of the luggage, we left at the Inn in Osaka because we’re coming back to Osaka. The other one, we had it couriered. It’s a service Mark was really fascinated, and so used it even if I think it’s unnecessary. But it’s really convenient fosho!

This luggage forwarder has a cat logo. So inevitably Japanese! 🙂 (This just gave me an idea that if I want to make a business to attract Japanese, my logo will be cats!)

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Fashion.
Japanese

Japanese… tourist!
and my GITOOK (strangled) Fashion. Anything to survive from the coldness.

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Bullet train. Let me just call it bullet train because shinchansin is too much to spell and speak. 🙂
The thing I love most about the bullet train is the leg room. Being used to budget airlines, the leg room is just so generous.

But it’s making me light-headed, like my brain felt like it’s suspended in the air.

Landing in Yokohama, where will be staying because too poor for Tokyo, I was shocked looking at the throng of people in the station. I thought Osaka station had too many people but Yokohama was 4x; I could not just imagine how it’s gonna be in Tokyo!
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So finally into our first meal in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Kanto Region. As a habit, I would just open foursquare for recommendations!
And just 250M from our Hotel was a 8.sthing ramen place! Wow! I love Yokohama!!! (I guess it has a lot to do that we stayed nearby the main Yokohama station so there were streets and alleys of food stalls or shopping streets as how’d they call it. It’s like we’re in the middle of downtown Colon!)
Until…
WHAT IS THAT??? 
Excited for the 8.sthing rated Ramen shop, I dashed inside the place before seats would be taken but I was signalled by the Ramen staff to go out and get meal tickets first….
It was really my first encounter with that “meal ticket” machine, and it did not help that it was in Japanese, and there were no photos!
But this is 8.sthing rated on foursquare, I got to figure this out. Though, it’s kinda “sabotable” that the first 2 top most buttons must be the main options. Thankfully, an English-speaking Japanese was lining next to me and helped me figured it out! 🙂
We chitchatted with him, and he told us that he studied English in Baguio, and stayed for awhile in Bacolod.
So thank God for Filipino English for this ramen!


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Insert other photos. We went up to Tokyo!!! 🙂
We passed through Shibuya crossing. And I was not disappointed with the number of people. It was how it was from photos on the internet. 😂
Owkei, let’s move on fast. Probably 250 meters away from crossing, and there were way too much less people. It made me think that the people crossing Shibuya crossing were paid “actors” to make it a “tourist attraction.”
We went to Line Store for the BTS merchants for the daughter…




Meet up with the almost Japanese-residents Garcias…


The prettiest train station I came across…

And my notes for the train stations… So HELPFUL! 😂😂😂

