i am back from japan!

i touched down yesterday morning at about 1am, finished doing everything and slept only at 4am.

im so tired now. i had like only 3 hours of sleep during the last two nights in japan cuz we had to wake up early for the tsukiji fish market.

anyway this is in the very early morning on the 12th of june. flight was around 1am. reached japan at 8.30am japan time i think.

took this picture on the plane. i think we were already flying above japan at that time. it looked so mountainous and there were clouds and so it looks like a picture!


the horizon was so beautiful!


then we touched down on nagoya airport. there was this mini quarantine area.


then we headed for the train station. this train line isn't run by JR. i dunno which rail company ran the line from nagoya airport to nagoya station.


vending machines at the waiting area


you know i saw one train captain shaving his chin away at the waiting area ~.~ i thought japanese had more manners than that haha.

looking back at the gates from the waiting area.


the trains at the station


inside the train to nagoya


a cute sign on the train door


seriously japan has cute pictures and signs all over everything, everywhere!

from nagoya station we changed to a JR Ltd express train headed for gifu.


ok i guess i'll end here. will write more about japan another day.

this is our rough itinery (where we stayed for for the night, doesn't really give any indication of how long we've been at that place during the day, so it doesn't really tell where we went what we did for the day)

12th june friday: gifu
13th june saturday: shirakawa go
14th june sunday: hirayu <3333
15th june monday: takayama <3333
16th june tuesday: toyama
17, 18th june wednesday, thursday: (tateyama) murodou <3333
19th june friday: matsumoto
20th, 21st, 22th june: tokyo

as you can tell, i really liked hirayu, takayama and the tateyama alpine route. toyama and matsumoto were more like a stopover in between destinations (cuz of time constraints and the large distance between the different places) so we only stayed there for the night, didn't really do anything much there.

japanese girls in the less urban areas of japan (like those in takayama, countryside towns and not cities) had very rosy cheeks and light brown eyes, really different from those you see in tokyo, i think they're very pretty!