tokyo to Hirosaki

Hellooooo my dear readers !

I arrived to Hirosaki about 2 weeks ago but I haven’t yet updated photos of the journey here!
This trip went well like most of my night buss travels.

Morning started nicely, drinking cold strawberry yugurt drink with my girl and talking to a cool Japanese guy who had this very cute doggy with him.

As an early lunch we went to eat ramen to a very nice place that is in Asakusa main street near the ginza station.
My friend Sam was with us who never eaten “real” ramen other then cup ramen.

this is how you open the chopsticks 😀

His first ramen ever.

My girlfriend had this tasty dish

and I had my normal Curry ramen.

If you are in Japan now you notice that these Dragon Ball cans are in most vending machines. they used to be just 100yen and you could only get that can that is in the photo but it changed couple of days ago that when you buy one you can get one of 7 different dragon ball cans but because of this the price went up 10yen (now it is 110yen).

Watermelon & Sky tree ice cream

You know how I have been telling you about the best Japanese fried chicken place (karaage) in Asakusa, well we went there again before our buss in the evening.

This is us before starting our trip to the north.

Ginza line 🙂

We were in a super hurry so we had to change for JR to get to Tokyo station more faster.

My luggage! This time I don’t have that much to carry.

Night buss is the best way to travel in Japan, this buss cost me 3000 ish yen one way to Hirosaki.

Highway stops are awesome, full of products from the area it is in and a lot of vending machines!

When we arrived to Hirosaki station at 8am we were both hungry so we stopped at Doutor.

Sucks that I can’t use my Suica at the station tho 😦 but at least I can use them at the combini (family mart,sunkus etc.)

The train was very small that we took from the Hirosaki station to the station that is near my girls home.

Gotta love the station 😀 (nothing there)

We took a taxi from the station to my girls place.

That was our trip to the north where I still am. I have taken a lot of photos here that you will see soon!

Today we will have a Japanese style barbeque.

Sky Tree & Party in Shinjuku

This day was awesome because I had a party with my friends whom I haven’t seen for a while and also I visited the mall of Sky Tree Solamachi with my girl.

Since my girl wasn’t in Tokyo for the grand opening of the sky Tree she wanted to visit there before we left to Aomori and after 40 minutes walking around the shops there I had to take her to get that smoothie/shake shop I found on my last visit there.

I had my favorite which of course is Strawberry shake

and she had the pineapple one.

I preferred mine tho since mine was more sweeter 😛

Later that day we went to omote sando to shop some clothes and after that we went to Shakeys pizzeria. (you know I love that place)(we don’t care about the pizza that much but the onion rings are the best)

In the evening we had our party at a Izakaya called Wara Wara in Shinjuku.
Always happy to see friends and make new ones at these parties !

This is actually kinda funny, I normally love wasabi but this evening my throat was hurting so eating it was a little bit more difficult than I thought.

1st. This is me with the Wasabi before I ate it. ( you can see there is quite a lot of it)

2nd.Ok so now it’s in my mouth, all good so far..

3rd. Here it got me since I could not swallow it and the hotness was getting higher and higher. Luckily I had a nice cold beer in my hand to help.

Normally, like now I could eat that piece of wasabi and not blink an eye.. just saying 😀

Here are some food photos of what we were eating.

Don’t you just love these things at the izakayas? 10 minutes after the tray arrives to the table, it’s empty.

If any of you are ever in Tokyo while I’m there and not busy, send me a message and you might get invited to one of my great parties 😀

for the last note, have you noticed that in Japan they have changed the sprite can for “older” looking design. I normally don’t drink sprite but the cool looking can made me get one.

Got some new manga .. again

I’m badly addicted on getting manga. Since it is so cheap I can’t stop buying it and for some reason I feel happy after I buy it, am I a weird person or what ?

but anyway, I’m trying to collect couple of full manga seasons but it seems to be a bit more difficult than I thought, one day I should just go in with a wallet full of cash and buy all at the same time!

Seriously if you like Manga or games and you are poor like I am, go to that Enterking store ! (I can give you directions on the ones I go to) and start shopping !

Today will be a shopping day, a bit in akihabara and then to buy new shoes ! I’ll post some photos of my current shoes and you see why I want new ones !

uhm it’s only 7.48am I think I should go to bed at least for couple of minutes

My trip to Japan

I’m too excited about my journey back home to Japan so I have already started thinking about my trip there and it will be something like this. I’ll put this on automatic publish so this will come up in that morning I’m flying.

1. Leave from my house at 3.20am at 13th of October to Lahti buss Station.
2. Go to the airport buss at 3.50am and arrive to the Helsinki-Vantaa airport and arrive to the airport at 5.05am.
3. My plane to Paris leaves at 7.30am and I arrive there 9.40am
4. and then starts running from terminal 2D to 2E I only got 1 hour and 20 minutes change time so I’ll be in a super hurry! of course there is no way that my luggage can change airplane so they will stay in Paris.
5. 11am leaves my flight to Paris and I will be arriving to Tokyo at 6am next morning ! 😀

If everything went by right plans I be in Tokyo haneda with my girlfriend tomorrow morning and being happy as ever !

Soon I’ll be sitting there again !

See you all in Tokyo !!!!!!!

ps. I’ll be taking photos on every second of this trip from Finland to Japan so you’ll see a nice way my trip without the stress 😀