8am woke up.
10am walked to nearest 7-11 that we visited last nite. Hitting our luck and ask the joy if he sees a dropped pasmo card here last nite. After some challenging effort to make him understand pur request, To our surprise he really went to find thru a box full off lost and found and show us the card.
He asked us how much credit we have to validate, and then returned it to us. Man. That is so so so incredible.
11am First stop. Shinjyuku goen(park). Some labeled it as the most beautiful park in Tokyo.
Entrence fee is 200¥ per adult, and free for golden age and disabled.
And finally this is where our selfie stick shines
There was a Traditional Japanese Tea house there for people to experience the correct way to enjoy Japanese green tea.
700¥ each.
The bowl of green tea is served along with a small piece of dessert which is something like a mochi or maybe moon cake. It's sweet, and the smooth and slightly bitter green tea makes it a very good compliment.
A small piece of the mochi, let it melt in your mouth while u slowly pick up the warm green tea bowl, take a deep sniff of the fragrance from the bowl, let the smell travels through your nostrils up till it gets to your head.
Now sip a bit of the tick green tea. Let the bitterly smooth texture neutralize your sweetened taste buds.
Perfect combo.
(Hanabiramochi means "flower petal mochi". It's traditionally served at the first tea ceremony of the new year. This tradition began with the Imperial Family. Hanabiramochi has a distinctive shape and color. It's filled with mung bean paste. The shape and colors of the hanabiramochi have symbolic meaning (related to a new year).)
After the tea ceremony, we joined with thousands of other people picnic and had our lunch in the park.
Here's the place that we had our lunch, and our sushi lunch box which we bought near our place we stay.
... and then we spent the rest of the time at the park taking NatGeo quality of pictures.
3pm-5pm we visited Meiji Jingu Shrine.
Some photos from the main Entrence ......
It takes a while (long walk along the forest) to reach the inside.
Sat down in one of the rest place for our first ever Sakura Ice cream.
And here's the inside of the shrine.
Here after, Everything looks almost the same as in the Yasakuni shrine we visited yesterday, only that everything was in a smaller scale.....
Here's the place to do some wishing....
... and here's the place where people scoop water and wash their left and right hands.
OK. Now before I write this. Please hold on to your seat tight so that u don't fall off after hearing the stint we did.
We wanted to visit the infamous Calico Cat Cafe. We found it in Google and it says 45min walk.
We did not question it and just walked....... all the way from Harajuku to Shinjuku.
Actually we couldn't have taken the subway if we din follow what Google says. Nonetheless we saw a lot of interesting places along the way. Like this one....
...and this one , which Danielle spent 30min in that shop and bought some souvenirs from Kiddy Land. It's all worth the walk.
Finally we reached Shinjyuku around 8pm.
And this is the first thing we see.
The gozzila hotel.
With the help of Google map, and with some challenges and some luck, we finally found the Calico Cat Cafe.
It's already fully packed.
We have to book our slot and cone back an hour later.
1200¥ per person per hour to let the cat serves you.
Well, we walked down to find some food.
There are a lot of red district area there.
Although I don't understand what those guys are talking, I am quite certain that those are those red district area. Because all their pamphlets and their shops are in red color.
Along the way, one shop happened to caught our attention. The jazzy music that flew thru the Entrence of this shop led us into their shop underground.
Kuriya.
One word. Awesome.
Good service.
Nice food.
Cozy environment.
And this one really stands out.
It's served like a friend patty, 2 layers.
The bottom one is a layer of avocado.
The top layer is fresh tuna, sprinkled with fried almond, green onions and fresh tomatoes.
The combination is really wonderful.
After the food, we went straight ahead to Calico Cat Cafe.
It's sad to say that the cats hardly come to you if you don't have any treats. Lol.
With 300¥ , we get ourselves a box of treats, and viola, we are the most served customers in harem.
I'll let the photos speak for itself. ....
This is Kamachi. He is wearing a red scarf. All cats that wear a red scarf is not suppose to be fed with treats because they have kidney problems.
This is the fattest cat. It's definitely not fluffy.
After the session we went for some shopping around shinjuku before we head back to our house.......
....... only to find out that Danielle somehow forgot where she left the omiyage that she bought from Kiddy Land.
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