Japan Day1

Day 1 as in reaching there as the first day, rather than travel agency's Day1.
Flight scheduled as 2355hrs the day before, so it was Day1 for the agency.
Crappy, but that's how they work. :P

The tour group has about 40 people & 1 tour leader from the agency.

When touched down, it was raining somehow, kinda cold. The coach that came to pick us was somehow a little smaller, the luggages were too much for the compartment, and some of them have to be loaded along the walkway in the coach! Luckily, the bus was only for that day, since we'll be taking domestic flight to Osaka in the evening.

It was about 1.5 hrs ride to Tokyo. First stop was at Ueno. The Ueno Park was filled with sakura trees. Lots of blossoming sakura along the ride from airport to Tokyo too. It's simply lucky for this tour to be able to see sakura, as it was forecasted to blossom two weeks earlier!

After Ueno, it was about time for lunch. Went to Asakusa, and took the the first Japanese lunch of the trip. Not very fantastic, but still alright. How wrong can tempura be? :P

Next, we're brought to Asakua Kannon Temple. Walking along the shopping streets, and venture into the shrine area. Pray to the gods there for ..... *wink wink*. Don't tell you. :D

Quite a long stop point, Karinna bought some bag there. As long as she likes, no problem!

Next, we were supposed to go to Shibuya, another shopping stop (what else but shopping in Tokyo!?!?!?). However, the traffic was a little bad, the tour guide decided to switch plan, and brought us to somewhere near Odaiba, which is a reclaimed land area in Tokyo.
This place is also near the dinner place, as well as more convenient to head to Haneda airpot for our night flight to Osaka.
Shibuya will be visited when we come back to Tokyo.

Didn't really do much at Odaiba area, just walking around the shopping mall, visited the Toyota showroom, and it's time to head for dinner.
That area is also the place which we saw people shopping in the mall with their pets in baby trolley (or pet trolley?!?!). How refreshing!

Finally, reached Osaka, and quickly get into hotel, and had a good rest. It had been a long day ...