Tokyo Disneyland!

Home in Sweden finally. Well..
This Monday we went to downtown Machida.

We ate at a really good ramen restaurant, and then Kentaro and I spent the rest of the evening playing games.

On Tuesday Rebecca and I went to Harajuku to buy alot of stuff, and on Wednesday we went to Tokyo Disneyland with Michiyo and Misako!

It was really awesome. I love the scenery there, and all the different fun rollercoasters and such.
I felt sad knowing this was the last day for us in Tokyo.. for this time.

I hope I can go back there soon again.

Today we've been to Närcon, and will go back there tomorrow. Check my blog for updates soon again!

Hanabi

Yesterday was the first full day in Japan since our return from Korea.

Rebecca and I went to meet Michiyo at Adachi-ku. It was so crowded. There were people everywhere, everyone heading for the same direction; to go to watch the awesome hanabi fireworks.

The fireworks were amazing. It lasted for about one hour, and lots of people everywhere. It took quite a long while to get to the train station afterwards..

Well, we went to Shibuya to the bar Raku. I got to know Taka, who works there - and Yuuka, a friend of the other people since earlier.
We pulled an all-nighter and had lots of fun. In the morning we ate some delicious ramen before heading home to Machida.

Weekend!

Yeah, weekend was awesome.
On Saturday at about 5 pm we met up with Ringo at Anguk station (I think?). Cecilia was a bit late so we strolled around a little in the rain, and also went to a HUGE music instrument store. Kinda interesting!
























At last Cecilia arrived, and we went to eat cold noodles.
For me, cold noodles is nothing new; but still this was new to me as it was served with ice cubes - ice-cold noodles! Wow. Pretty tasty! We then went to gaming centre for a while and then ended up taking purikura, which was alot of fun.
We also took a visit to Baskins-Robbins for some icecream.










































At evening we went to Hongdae to drink and have fun.
At first we ate at KFC. Wow, seems like there was no salt in my french fries, and there were no salt to find at all in the restaurant. Kinda sucked, but oh well. We ended up at HO-bar, some bar that seemed good, with alot of foreigners in it. Well, the waitress (or whatever) at that place was kinda rude so we left pretty early. It turned out to be nothing more than.. well.. a ho-bar.

At last we found a good Korean bar! It was in izakaya-style, and we had a fun night together; eating and drinking. It was so cheap too! About.. 5000 won each, which is about... 34 Swedish kronor, or about 380-400 Japanese yen. We ordered a big jug of beer, alot of different dishes and a bottle of sake.

















































On Sunday we went around Myongdong, looked around in a few stores and also went to a huge combined book & music store.
Before that we ate a good breakfast at Mr Pizza.
I found alot of interesting CD's, even though I didn't buy anything. Maybe I should've bought a Nell album. It would've been worth it. Oh well, I can go back there someday.... or maybe not? Already on Wednesday we will go back to Japan.

Dongdaemun

Today we went shopping with Hyunjung at Dongdaemun.

It was raining like crazy, still I enjoyed the weather as it wasnt as hot as usual.

In Dongdaemun it was so many different small clothing shops everywhere in many different buildings with alot of floors. I found some nice T-shirts that I bought. I am glad Hyunjung were nice to help us with talking to the sellers, as it's common that foreigners get tricked into paying too much.
Quite funny how everyone thought I was Japanese. Yeah, fashion is very different here than from Japan. Still you can find really nice things for very cheap prices!

We ate some really good food at a restaurant. So delicious. For my first time I drank Korean beer (Cass). Not much of a taste experience, but very easy to drink and to get drunk at.
I also today tried gimbap for the first time. Surprisingly good!

Tonight we are eventually going clubbing, or maybe just relax at the guesthouse. Tomorrow we are going to meet Cecilia and Ringo. It will be lots and lots of fun! Looking forward to it.

South Korea

Me and Rebecca are finally in South Korea now.

We arrived at Incheon Airport about 9 pm yesterday (Wednesday). It feels... undescribable.. very strange. It took about two hours 'til we arrived to the guesthouse here in Mapo-gu in Seoul. It's a very nice, big guesthouse with lots of other guests from different parts of the world.

Today we met the worker at Social Welfare Society who helped me get in contact with my biological mother. She was a very nice person, and even treated us a good meal at an excellent bulgogi restaurant.

At evening, after taking a nap, we met up with Cecilia & Hyunjung with her boyfriend. It was very fun. Actually I have been talking with Cecilia & Hyunjung for about 4 years online, so finally we got to meet each other in real life.
We went to a good, inexpensive bar; drank and had fun.
After that Cecilia, me and Rebecca went around to look in alot of shops in the area (Hongdae), and ended up in Starbucks after a while cause of me getting hungry.

Shabu-shabu

Yesterday we met Kentaro & Amanda.

We went to eat Shabu-shabu tabehodai at a restaurant. It was delicious. The meat was really good and tender. There were three different types of dipping sauces; soy based sauce, miso based sauce & sesame based sauce. I think I preferred the sesame one, as I thought soy was too salty, and miso too spicy.

After that we ended up in a really good izakaya, with really cheap prices. We ordered some beverages and sidedishes & had a fun time together.

Ebisu & Ginza

We went to Ebisu garden yesterday.

Really beautiful place, so I took alot of photos. It's a beer museum at that place, with free entrance. It was interesting. Especially fun was it to try different kinds of their beer (by a cost of 500 yen). Their original lager type of beer, a type of weissbier, an ale and their dark beer. I'm not sure which one I prefered, but I liked their ale.

After that we went to downtown Ebisu, and found a very good Ramen restaurant. Very tasty!

We also took a short visit to Ginza. Lots of expensive brand shops and stuff, but also cheap brands like H&M or Uniqlo. We took a visit to Princess Heart, some sort of theme-based cafe.

After that we went to Shinjuku to go to the Dining Bee bar. Very expensive place, but it was ok anyway.

Today we will meet up with Kentaro & Amanda, and go eat Shabu-shabu tabehodai (eat-as-much-you-want).

I will upload videos soon.

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