Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts

Tokyo Disney Store

Wednesday, June 3, 2015 1:43 AM Posted by wens
Recently, I've been much in love with Cinderella after watching Cinderella movie on the big screen. Been on a lookout for Cinderella dress but haven't been able to find the perfect one so far. I'm always visiting disney stores in states hoping to find some nice accessories but most of them are designed for kids and I'm too old for those. Japan seems like the perfect place for disney lovers! 

Headed to Shibuya's Disney store! It's the only store in Japan with the Castle like exterior - feels like I'm in Disneyland without even stepping into one. 
My favourite princess and her merchandise. I spent a considerably long amount of time deciding between their accessories, weighing between practicality and my love for it. 
Disney loaded merchandise for the grown up kids - HP cases, pouch, earphone plugs, bag charms, bracelets, pens, stationaries. Too much of goodies I couldn't really decide what to get.
It's a 3 level building, with the 3rd floor selling disney park passes. 
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Pompompurin Cafe at Harajuku

Tuesday, June 2, 2015 1:39 AM Posted by wens
Happy to chance upon the pompompurin Cafe in Harajuku. It's at the 3rd floor above Sanrio Vivitix Shop. Arrived just after the lunch crowd so it wasn't as crowded as I expected. The queue moved quite fast and I got in within 10 minutes of waiting.


The entrance is too cute! Every part of the restaurant down to the exterior is filled with this furkid. I'm not exactly a fan of Pompompurin but it's too cute to miss! There's always a thing about Japanese characters, they always look very cute - round face with face and mouths made of dots, lines or curves.

Main course and dessert menu. Surprisingly it's a pretty affordable cafe probably due to their target market being the younger crowd. 
Ordered the Taco Rice in a Friendship cup. It's too cute I couldn't bare to destroy it! They must have taken painstaking effort to create these dishes, the food doesn't come fast but at least I know the chef has been putting in considerable time effort to mould this perfectly! Thumbs up!! 


Caramel cream dessert which came in a super cute glass jar and a chocolate cap with a teeny weeny pot of caramel sauce. 
Cute Interior. This whole place is just so cute I felt like a kid once again! If I live in Japan, I would probably be a never-grow-up kid with all these cutesy stuff all around me.

Shopping corner in the cafe selling cafe exclusive merchansise! 




Staff's outfit - kawaaii! 

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Kimono experience in Asakusa

Friday, March 20, 2015 3:39 AM Posted by wens
I have always wanted to have some photos of myself taken in a Kimono. It's Spring and I initally wanted to have pictures in the cherry blossoms and kimono. Sadly, very little sakura had bloom at this time.

There are many studios in Asakusa that offered kimono experience and photoshoot. I managed to find a reasonably priced one. It's called Sakura photo Kimono. http://www.sakuraphotokimono.com/english/

They have a few packages
Simple Plan - 3000Yen
Basic Plan - 5000 Yen
Luxury Plan - 10000 Yen
Photo service at another 5000 yen.

The difference between the simple and basic plan is the waist band and the Basic plan was definitely more elaborate and complicated. You can walk around with the kimono till 5pm, so its pretty worth it. For Luxury plan, it was only an hour of walking around.

I took the package which was 10,000 yen - includes the Basic Plan kimono and a 1 hour photo cum walking tour.

I only made up my mind one day before the photoshoot. I did ask some colleauges if they were interested in it but they don't really seem interested. Then this girl told me this kinda thing have to do it with friends. So I was thinking, yea it's true, they are just colleauges which I wouldn't see in future so I probably prefer my personal portrait. It was late at night after dinner, I emailed the lady, Sakura and the next morning she replied that my timing wasn't possible. I gave her a call and somehow it was possible! It was quite impromptu and I'm glad it managed to work out.

Putting on the Kimono was rather tedious. There was 2 aunties putting on layers of cloth on me and tying it with a string. Then I chose my kimono. I was contemplating between a few design but decided on one that Sakura recommended. The waistband tying took up quite some time as the 2 aunties put on layers of bands, twirl the colourful strings around, and folded the back sash into an elaborate pattern! I was impressed. The whole process took about 20 mins.

The photographer is Hiroshi and he basically walked though Asakusa with me and explained the history and culture of Asakusa. Asakusa is a very old and cultural place full of history so it was interesting to know more about it.

It was quite funny how while he was snapping pictures of me, other tourists especially the China peeps all started taking pictures of me. I felt like I was an exhibition item.

The photos took 2 weeks to edit and process, and I'm super pleased with the turnout!



























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Spring in Tokyo, Sakura

Sunday, March 15, 2015 5:04 AM Posted by wens
I always make it a point to make a trip to Japan during the sakura season. I wasn't able to catch the full blooms but I still managed to capture some of the early blooms.

My favourite park is still Shinjuku gyoen over Ueno Park. Ueno park is way more crowded and touristy while shijuku gyoen is more of a local picnic place. More space to breathe and enjoy the blooms. Just pretty annoyed with the troops of chinese tourist stealing my photo spots and loitering in my background. I'm pretty anal when it comes to photobombing.

I was still pretty happy I managed to snap some nice shots.















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Tokyo Shop and Eat.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012 5:41 AM Posted by wens
Finally back in Tokyo, one of my favourite country!

Gotta dress in Japanese style in Japan so here I am!



Stepped into a restaurant not knowing the menu was the worst choice. After we sat down and served with towels and tea, we realised the menu had got limited food and all are damn expensive. Wanted to leave but thought it was damn embarassing, so 3 of us shared a set. Even the waitress was stunned that 3 people are sharing a set. Like noobcakes, we tried the pretty lil unknown food items, and eeeks it tasted horrible. Omg, bad decision! =(
 


Then headed to Harajuku to shop. It was a sunday and the street was bustling with youngsters and hipsters with all kinds of weird hair! Some attempted to cosplay but there wasn't many.  
 
 
 


The crepes looks nice!

Entered a building randomly and there was some singing competition going on. All those lil girls were in school uniform, kinky! But those sailormoon uniforms are really cute.


Didn't manage to get any clothes in the area. All the clothes are at least 1990Yen, and thats kinda expensive!


Didnt manage to try the one at Harajuku, but tried the one outside Shibuya 109.
 

Roadshow outside Shibuya 109 promoting the launch of a new model of phone. The phones are so cute but incompatiable.

Walked around shibuya 109. The clothes are damn kawaai and pretty but much more expensive than those in Harajuku! Faints.
 


All that I spent on were on cosmetics and skincare! Love the makeup in Japan, its really good quality. Bought a pink lipstick and the application was good. I tried alot of it in Korea's cosmetic shops but all left gaps on my lips and it was aweful. Even those higher end ones couldn't make a nice filling on the lips. But the Japanese ones were awesome, one brush of the lipstick across the lips and my lips were well filled and moistuised!

Took neoprints as well. Its only 400yen, which is 6sgd! Its the most advanced program and I love it, cos the printing of the stickers are well fittted to the number of people you have, and each strip that is being cut out has a proper heading and footer, so it feels like a complete set of pictures unlike the normal neoprints where there's not even any headings and footer.

A hugeeee electronic shop of 5 levels. Really saturated with electronic products. There's this Canon EOS M which is a DSLR downsized to look like Sony's.


Headed to Tokyu hands and ended up buying random stuffs. Its a creative lifestyle department store so it's got many random lifestyle items to solve daily problems, but the pricetag doesnt come cheap!
 


Spiddy suit for halloween?
 

Had lunch at a standing sushi bar, mainly jus to satisfy my craving for the salmon sushi topped with glazed mayo.

The chef pinches some salmon and rice, topped it up with mayo and glazed it with fire, then present it just in front of you. Freshly made and damn awesome. The salmon just melted in my mouth, and its the best sushi I ever had!
 
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