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1192) Walking from bus stop to the Higashi Chaya District (a short 7mins walk)


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1202) Kanazawa Castle Park


1203) Kenrokuen


1204) Kenrokuen - One of Japan's "three most beautiful landscape gardens" alongside Mito's Kairakuen and Okayama's Korakuen


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1216) There's this electronic board at the bus stop that shows the current location of the buses in real time.


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---End of Trip 3, Day 8----

Coming up next, Day 9 (Kyoto)

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Trip 3 (Nov 2011), Day 9: Kyoto

1222) Bought this to eat onboard the Shinkansen from Shin-Osaka to Kyoto


1223) It was raining...all I see are umbrellas everywhere...


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1225) Kiyomizudera


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1227) I think I was kinda early for autumn foliage...the leaves were still green


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1237) Higashiyama


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1242) Kodaiji


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1252) There's many ramen shops & restaurants at the top 2 levels above Isetan at Kyoto station. I ate at this ramen shop (at the ramen level where you see many ramen shops) and I love their fried rice and gyoza.


1253) Ramen + Fried rice + Gyoza = 950yen


----End of Trip 3, Day 9-----

Coming up next, day 10

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Trip 3 (Nov 2011), Day 10: Osaka to Singapore.

Actually, I realized that I didn't actually took much pics on this day since it was a travelling day.

Therefore, I guess I'll just post pics of what I bought on this trip.

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1258) The pair of winter boots (at the top most) costs me just SGD17...


-----End of Trip 3 (Nov 2011)-----

Coming up next, Trip 4 (Feb 2012) Hokkaido + Kyushu trip.

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Trip 4 (Feb 2012), Day 1: Singapore to Tokyo, Tokyo to Sapporo Shin-Chitose.
We took JAL for this trip. Seats were uncomfortable although their inflight entertainment is much better than Cathay's. Food portion-wise, I found it alright although the breakfast on our way back to Singapore was really yucks.

Had a looong delay on the tarmac at Narita Airport because it seemed that there were a long queue of planes trying to take off. I had time to browse thru 2 magazines + short nap and we were still waiting for takeoff. -_-!


1259) Waiting for boarding at Changi


1260) At Narita Airport's JR office to exchange for my JR pass and also to book our Overnight train Twilight Express's tickets for Day 9


1261) Kit Kats...


1262) Baggage carousel at Shin-Chitose Airport


1263) Our room (were we stayed for first 3 nights) at Chisun Inn Sapporo (8000yen per night during Sapporo Snow Fest week)


1264) View outside our room window


1265) Our supper from convenience stores.


---End of Trip 4, Day 1-----

Coming up next, Day 2 (Sapporo Snow Fest)

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Trip 4 (Feb 2012), Day 2: Nijo Market + Sapporo Snow Fest + Susukino Ice Fest

We walked from our hotel to Nijo Market in the morning. It was cold, but wasn't snowing. Temperature was about -3 degrees celcius.

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1269) Clean snow vs Dirty snow


1270) The pedestrian walkways were covered with slippery frozen snow surface.

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1272) I love the sky...looks so fake, but it's real.


1273) Nijo Market


1274) My hubby's fave, Ikura


1275) Kani!


1276) What the hubby ate...Salmon Ikura donburi