Last night, I had a dream of buying 2lb strawberry, kiwi, watermelon (which is about $30 in Japan), and many of items and bringing them to home! I certainly miss all of those things..
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Living in Misawa can be tough!
Have you ever thought about buying any of your favorite chips online? Realizing such a small selection we can choose from commisary, We have thought about purchasing chips online as a bulk. I was in the states almost a year before I really started to settle down in Misawa for the 4 yeard of journey, I didn't even think about finding a chip that we like or buying fruits and vegetable can be hard thing. When we were in Vegas, We lived across from Wal-Mart and Costco. couple blocks down the street, there was Smith's and Farmers Market. We had such a nice selection of food and places that we can choose from. Here in MIsawa, We have commisary and BX then off base grocery stores such as Universe, Home mac and Asahi Drugstore. Fruit comes with a small bag and price is ridiculous. People is talking about Farm around this area and Fruits store, however it is certain that we have a very very limited selection of the food and fresh products.
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Tokyo trip_the Second day Dinner
We had dinner at Outback in Roppongi. Pumpkin soup was great. server was super busy so the service was slow. We realized that we need to grap anybody to get any services by calling them sumimasen. otherwise, we wouldn't be able to get the bill or to go box when the dinner was over. we might have been wait an hour to leave. Mini bbq was great.
Outback Steakhouse Roppongi
Roppongi Food Gate, "Rocmon" 2F
6-1-3 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032
03-5413-4870
Tokyo Trip_Takoyaki Museum
This place is a food court rather than a museum. there are stores where sells tacoyaki and related items. It was funny yo see tacoyaki standing on the ship and direct the way on the sea and small place to memorize tacoyaki.
Even though we couldn't go to Lego Land, we could visit their store at the end of Wax Museum. Dobbie key chain is the item we bought there. It costs 600 yen.
Bubble tea was the best part of takoyaki museum
Tokyo trip_ Wax Museum
We would like to go to Lego land and Wax Museum together at the price for 2,700 yen per each person. we were not allowed to access in Lego Land because we don't have child with us. So we only could see the Wax Museum. it was fun to take a lot of pictures and people were very nice. Lots of dolls were Japanese pop starts or politians so we didn't know who the singer is. also lots of starts we recognize there which gave us the great and funny pictures.
Tokyo_Jan 31st, 2015_Obaiba
Obaiba is artificial island which only one railroad is running through the island called yurikamome. Heading out to the island is great when it is a good day. It was rainny day which made everything hard to move to diferent places. we bought a day pass of yurikamome which was about 850 yen. the one way is about 350 yen so it is much better to buy one day pass if you plan on drop by several places inside of the islad. we thought there is a aquarium and fun places, but what we found out when we get there is that they don't have aquarium but it is a huge shopping center. there were bunch of teenagers who came to odaiba for the trip. We didn't feel like much of shopping so we decided to just look around little bit and head out to aquarium until we found the cool places like Wax museum and lego land. the weather works negatively toward our trip as well.
the small fish tank is what they are talking about as an aquarium.
the cool small stores are pretty fun to see.
Tokyo trip_The Second day Lunch
We were planning on head to Starbucks after Fire museum. We saw this place on the way to Starbucks so we decided to have lunch here. their peppers were not finely chopped which added on more flavors on the burger. we were happy to find another great burger store in Tokyo.
Island Burgers
Tokyo, Shinjuku, Yotsuya, 3 Chome-1
lunch starts at 11am
Tokyo_Jan 31st, 2015_Fire Museum
Tokyo Fire Museum is a geat place to learn the history of the fire prevention in Japan. It has great display items that shows the what and how fire prevention has been eveloped to fit the geological situation in Japan (mainly wooden houses). We only could see 3th, 5th and underground floor due to the construction at other floors, we had great time there. It is so easy to find the find since it only takes a minutes from the subway station.
Fire Museum
3-10 Yotsuya, Shinjuku, Tokyo 160-0004
There is a toy museum near by Fire museum, so I highly recommend to drop by both place once you are here. It was rainny and snowy day when we went there, so we decided to head out to odaiba.
Tokyo trip_First day dinner
As it shown on the schedule, we head out to Roppongi to have a first day dinner. this place is located inside of the midtown where there is a complex of shopping center and the hotel. It is the far courner of the food court. Baker Bounce burger has great Bacon and cheese burger served with Japanese style salad and several potato wedgies. I ordered grilled veges and mashed potatoes. there were little bit too much of egg plants but overal taste was great. they make ketchup at the store and it is sold in their online stoe. the ketcup was great.
Baker Bounce Midtown
5 Chone- 13- 5 Taishido, Setagaya, Tokyo 154- 0004
open until 22:30
Tokyo trip_Jan 30th 2015
We arrived little earlier than the schedule so we decided to head out to Roppongi. It's been a while since we saw lots of buildings and people on the steet. Even if it was cold outside, it made us feel more like home than we were in Misawa.
when we were approaching to the hotel, this is what we saw on the street. the buildings were so close to the road, we could see people having cup of tea in their house. we were so excited to be in city.
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