Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Tokyo Tour Itinerary

Day 1 - 30 Jan 2011 (Sun)
Afternoon
Yosoko! Tokyo!
Touch down at 330 pm local time. Take Narita Express to city center about 70 mins. Let's get the Suica & N'EX package for ¥5,500 (2-way). Suica card comes with ¥2,000 credit for any transport. We can use it in town. Daily transport will rely on the Tokunai pass 730 yen.
Check-in to Grand Prince New Takanawa Hotel near Shinagawa Station. S$200+ per night. It better be good!



Night
Stroll around where we stay and get some local food for dinner. Recee around and decide what to do next few days.

Day 2 - 31 Jan 2011 (Mon)
Morning
Visit Tsukiji Market (Fish Market). See details at http://www.tsukiji-market.or.jp/tukiji_e.htm
The TSUKIJI MARKET.TOKYO METROPOLITAN CENTRAL WHOLESALE MARKET


Market start business early morning. Auction starts at 5.30am (Tuna), 7am (vege) & 7.30am (flower). Tourist/ visitors might not be allowed at the auction floor. We can straight away go to the makan place for breakfast. This market closes at about 11am.

Afternoon
Self guided City tour. We can visit places like tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, free shrine, temple, palace, free parks, free garden, free museum. Go buy some cheap electronic stuff. Shouldn't be that hard to achieve. At most lost our way in the busy Tokyo city. No big deal hehe...



Placa to go: Akihabara, Ginza, Shinjuku, Harajuku, Akakusa, Shibuya

Day 3 - 1 Feb 2011 (Tue)
Day tour to somewhere else. No concrete idea where to go or what to do yet. Maybe Some places with hot spring :)
Choice of tours,
1. Mt Fuji Hakone 1-Day Return by Shinkansen
2. Japanese Snow Monkey 1-Day Tour impossible its in Nagano
3. Takaosan hiking

Day 4 - 2 Feb 2011 (Wed)
Continue with city tour or go Disneyland? Lots of things I wanna eat like Bubba gump, Denny's ...........

Day 5 - 3 Feb 2011 (Thurs)
Sayonara Tokyo. Last minute shopping until 1 pm.
Leaving for Narita Airport after lunch. Flight depart at 5.50pm local time.

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Have you been to Singapore Quarry? Where?

After having lunch at Bt Timah Food Center we went for an unplanned adventurous trail, Daily Farm Nature Reserve. Unfortunately we couldn't find the place. 2 fellow in their fancy trekking suits told us there is this "Singapore Quarry" nearby... We could have parked our car near the MOE adventure Center and walk the trail all the way to the so-called quarry. However we chose to park at the nearest spot and walked the shortest route. Parked at Jalan Asas behind The Rail Mall and just walked for about 0.7km.
There is basically a very huge piece of rock, a waterbody, a platform, a shelter & very hot weather.