The people are very friendly. The room is on the second floor, there is no elevator, all are Japanese tatami, the room is smaller, but it has everything you need. However, there is no toilet in the room. If you want to go to the toilet or take a shower, you have to go to the public bathroom on the first or second floor. If you mind this, don't stay here. You can book a room through booking.
Yunluo called to make a reservation, and someone happened to cancel, so Yunluo got the last room. Super lucky! It's across the street, so it's very convenient to buy things and withdraw money. If you wash clothes in the B&B, it's 10 yen. Yunluo and An Chuyu wanted to go out and play, so the proprietress said it's okay, you guys go out, and Yunluo will help you hang them up after washing.
But you can't use the washing machine after 12:00 p.m., for fear of disturbing others' rest. Breakfast is not provided here, but it's only a 10-minute walk from Hakodate Morning Market, so you can just walk there and eat. When Yunluo and An Chuyu went out in the morning, the proprietress rushed out and gave Yunluo and An Chuyu two cans of Hokkaido coffee, and she delivered it to the door every time they went out.
When I left, I watched Yunluo and An Chuyu pull their luggage to the corner before I left. It really felt like home! There are no photos of Ginza Capital Hotel (New Building), but there are small pictures on the website. It is a standard business hotel. Ladies can get small gifts, such as rubber bands, cotton pads, etc.
There is a restaurant downstairs, free coffee in the morning, and it takes about 10 minutes to walk to Ginza. There are many Japanese shops on the way where you can eat. The room is relatively small, but also very clean. You can buy a one-day ticket at the front desk, and the staff will help answer many questions. The point is! It is very close to Tsukiji Market! It takes about 10 minutes to get there! Very convenient!
There is a subway station downstairs, and the transportation is very convenient. There is also a free shuttle bus to Tokyo Station. There is a convenience store downstairs where you can buy food and daily necessities. It was a coincidence that I was able to book this hotel in Tokyo Hatchobori Dormyinn. Originally, % of the rooms in Tokyo were booked, and the remaining % were capsule hotels.
Yunluo thought it would be sad to spend New Year's Eve in a capsule hotel, so she searched for hotels with vacancies, and finally found this one, but she had never heard of the name on the website, so she was unsure whether to book it. After struggling for a long time, she finally booked it, at least she had a place to stay. Later, she checked. The ratings were basically negative.
The reviews are all very high! So I'm lucky! DormyInn is a very famous hotel chain in Japan. I didn't know it was really good until I stayed there. There is free tea and coffee at the front desk. The room is big and clean. I won't mention it. The most important thing is that there is a free hot spring! And the hot spring has everything, including sauna, hot spring, and bath!
After the hot spring bath, there is a full set of POLA facial cleanser, lotion, and toner, which you can use as you like! You can also do laundry for free. The breakfast here is also super good. I will post pictures when I write about Tokyo. Next time I go to Japan, hotels under Dormyinn will be among Yunluo's first choices. There will be a free shuttle bus to Tokyo Station every day.
This is the most expensive room I stayed in during this trip, but it happened to be on the 10th and 15th of the month. It is understandable that the price is a bit higher. When you arrive in Kyoto, you must stay in the most traditional Japanese townhouse. This is the one Yunluo has been looking for for a long time and it is cost-effective. The staff speaks very good English, probably because there are many foreigners staying here.
You can buy a one-day bus ticket to Kyoto at the front desk. The room is clean and large. There are Japanese yukatas to wear. The shower gel and shampoo are all from Shiseido. You can also use the kitchenware for free. You can buy things and cook them in the room. You can also book a series of Japanese experiences such as tea ceremony. It is about minutes away from Kyoto Station.
However, there is a bus stop at the door, so it is very convenient to take the bus. Opposite is Nishi Honganji Temple, which is also one of the famous attractions in Kyoto. There is a convenience store downstairs. You can buy food and daily necessities. The breakfast is delicious, but you need to pay for it separately. It is still highly recommended and a very good experience. Hotel Hokke Club Kyoto.
The reason for booking this hotel is that it is just opposite Kyoto Station. Yunluo and Anchu met on their last day, and their flight was in the morning. It was very close to the airport bus station. Because the front desk was on the first floor, we had to take the escalator up. As soon as we got up, the front desk staff would bow and greet us. If a lady stayed, she could get noodles for free.
Rubber bands and other small gifts, the room is relatively small, but still very clean. And every day after cleaning, there will be a thousand paper cranes on the table. There is a restaurant downstairs, and there is also a Uji Matcha branch. It takes only minutes to walk to Kyoto Station, so it is super convenient for shopping. Next to it is Kyoto Tower. There is also the Kyoto Bus Station downstairs, and the transportation is super convenient.
Because Yunluo didn't have time to mail the postcards on the last day, she asked the staff to mail them for her in advance. She just had to hand the postcards to them when she checked out. They were super nice! The next morning, Yunluo and An Chuyu went to Ueno Station (the station where they got off the Skyliner yesterday) with a try-it attitude.
Ask if anyone has found a wallet. The uncle on duty gave me a small note from the lost and found office with a contact number, but unfortunately they were closed on Sundays. The difference between weekends and weekdays in Tokyo is really huge. Yunluo and An Chuyu didn't live in a very remote place, and they didn't leave very early in the morning, only around 8 or 9 o'clock.
But the seats on the subway were 100% empty, and the streets couldn't be more deserted when they returned at 9:00 pm. Then Yunluo and An Chuyu set out from Ueno Station to Sensoji Temple. According to the guide, Sensoji Temple is the oldest temple in Tokyo, and many people come here to pray for blessings.
But Yunluo has to say that if you don’t have a strong heart or great luck, you should not ask for fortunes casually. Like Yunluo, who was unlucky, he drew a bad fortune. Although he tied the bad fortune on the shelf next to him and offered Japanese yen to dispel the bad luck, he still felt uncomfortable.
The picture below shows Sensoji Temple and the places for drawing fortunes and warding off bad luck: I had originally planned to go to the Skytree after leaving Sensoji Temple, but it was so hot that day, and when I saw the route and I had to find a bus, I simply gave up this part of the trip and decided to spend the night overlooking Tokyo on the Ferris wheel.
So I strolled leisurely on a street full of small shops in front of Sensoji Temple. I went into the drugstore mentioned above, and then I was sadly burdened with such a large bag of miscellaneous things! I had no choice but to send the things back to the hotel at noon, and then set off again to stroll around Shinjuku.
From Shinjuku Sanchome Station, you can go directly to the basement of Isetan, which is a place full of all kinds of exquisite Western confectionery and other delicacies. In fact, Yunluo is willing to eat some random snacks as meals, but my best friend can't do that, she has to eat properly. So Yunluo and An Chuyu came out of Isetan again.
Finally, we found Wakasa-ya in Kabukicho, which is also recommended in the Mafengwo guide. We ordered a "hodgepodge". It was the first time I saw this kind of rice bowl with hot rice at the bottom and cold sashimi and other seafood on top. The taste was quite delicious. After drinking and eating, we wandered around Shinjuku.
There are several stores such as Uniqlo and Muji that are easy to compare prices with those in China. You can also stay in Isetan for an afternoon. As for Lumine, which is suitable for young women, I don’t know if Yunluo is not young enough or not feminine enough, or if I didn’t find the right place. Anyway, I feel that there is nothing to visit.
It's a bit like those non-branded stores in China that are put together. BTW, Starbucks here seems to be cheaper than in China, two large cups of iced coffee (not super cups) are only Japanese yen. I just did a little shopping in the afternoon. Then around five o'clock, I started walking towards Odaiba. When I transferred to the Yurikamome Line at Shiodome Station, the instructions were really unclear.
I couldn't find the transfer station at all. Finally, I met a Japanese woman who was also taking the Yurikamome Line. I followed her to find the boarding location. Anyway, you have to exit the station first to see the Yurikamome Line, which is similar to the urban rail, on the ground. Then Yunluo and An Chuyu got off at Qinghai Station and went directly to the second floor of Palette City. There was a shopping mall on the left.
On the right is a car theme park similar to a car show. Dinner was my first ramen meal in Japan. Although the price of a bowl of noodles is close to RMB yuan, I have to say that it is more like real pork bone soup, that is, you can see and taste the oil floating on the noodle soup, but some people may find it too greasy.
After lunch, we went to the Ferris wheel to see the night view of Tokyo. Since neither Yunlu nor I are fans of heights, we unanimously chose the non-transparent carriage underfoot. The following pictures show the appearance of the transparent and non-transparent carriages: Here are two night view pictures.
In addition, Yunluo's wit should be shown here. In order to capture the people inside the car and the night view outside the car at the same time (people are dark without flash, and the night view is dark after the flash is reflected on the car glass), I cleverly came up with the idea of using the flash of another mobile phone inside the car to shine on the people and then not turning on the flash of the mobile phone used for taking pictures!
Haha, the effect is pretty good. OK. Mission accomplished today! If words are not enough, pictures will make up for it.
Disney tickets are purchased at the ticket counter. The clerk will help you select some basic information on a self-service ticket machine, and then pay at the cashier. But this may miss the park map given away when you buy tickets at the Disney ticket counter. Fortunately, Yunluo and An Chuyu met a kind person. Yunluo and An Chuyu looked at the Chinese version of the map held by others.
In a moment of envy, he gave the extra map in his hand to Yunluo and An Chuyu. Between Disneyland and Disneysea, Yunluo chose the former without hesitation, because Yunluo was very aware of his ability to withstand horror. After taking the Keiyo Line to Maihama Station, Disneysea is on the left.
To the right is Disneyland. There is a Disney store at the entrance. As a countryman, Yunluo felt like Liu Laolao entering the Grand View Garden. And whether you have the need to shop or not, entering here will almost make you want to shop. In the end, Yunluo and his wife bought Mickey's baseball cap, sunglasses and headwear here.
Because they didn't get a map at the beginning, Yunluo and An Chuyu were completely walking around blindly at first. After entering the park and passing a market, they turned right out of habit, and then began to see long queues of people outside several venues. Yunluo and An Chuyu were eager to get a fastpass.
So I randomly picked up a ticket outside a certain venue without knowing what was going on. Later I found out it was Buzz Lightyear Astronaut. Fortunately, Yunluo was quite familiar with this cartoon. I remember watching the first one when I was in elementary school. Ugh, I'm showing my age. Then I looked at the time on the fastpass.
There was still more than an hour left, so I hurriedly wanted to get another venue's fastpass. Only then did I realize that each fastpass had a time interval, and basically you had to finish playing the fastpass in your hand before you could get the next one. Well, then I could only play some small projects during this period.
So Yunluo and An Chuyu continued to walk in. They were still inexperienced. As soon as they saw Gao Fei's cartoon house, they were attracted and queued for 20 to 30 minutes. As a result, after entering its house, they played with inexplicable paint cannons. They felt cheated. Because of the lingering fear, they didn't dare to queue up for other cartoon houses.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
I would advise those who are not too young to just take pictures in this area. There is really no need to spend time on it. But you can't be idle during this period, so you line up for a super small roller coaster. It was a little fun. In the innermost part of this cartoon city, there are all kinds of small houses, which are very suitable for pretending to be fresh.
Yunluo and Anchuyu took the most photos in Disneyland here. Then the time was almost up, so we went back to Buzz Lightyear's Astronaut Adventure. Here I have to talk about fastpass again. For example, the time written on our fastpass is: start. So if you: start queuing in the fastpass channel.
The order maintenance team will invite you out and release you strictly according to the time of :. This made sister Yunluo have to queue up again, and she was very nervous when she started :. Buzz Lightyear's Astronaut Adventure should be the first indoor project that Yunluo and An Chuyu played seriously. Although Jijiwawa spoke all in Japanese and I couldn't understand it at all.
But it was quite fun to sit in the car and shoot the well-made and lifelike cartoon characters with a laser gun. After coming out, I got a fastpass at the nearby spacemountain, but the queue was already around 2pm. So I decided to have lunch first. It was very difficult to get a seat for lunch. Who knew that ordering food would take even longer.
Probably because the service was so good, asking this and that, it took nearly an hour to order food even though there were less than 20 people in front of us. I had a plate of cold noodles with vegetables for lunch, which was a refreshing meal in such hot weather. I took a short break in the afternoon and headed straight to spacemountain.
Oh my god, this is so exciting! I was running around in the dark, and my heart was pounding. It's no exaggeration to say that my legs were really weak when I got off the bus. Even someone like Yunluo who doesn't get carsick almost had acid reflux. Later I learned that this area, along with Buzz Lightyear and some other rides that I didn't ride, is called Tomorrowland.
It seems that the theme of Tomorrowland is flying around and bouncing around. Later, we got the map, so we didn't have to go around like a headless fly. So we chose the extremely gentle carousel as our next item. I'll skip a thousand words here. Then we went to the Snow White Adventure in the Dreamland area, which was another car ride.
I'm just really curious. Is it good for children to have witches, monsters, ghosts, etc. made so realistically? Then we played the haunted mansion. I didn't have much expectation for this at first, thinking it was nothing more than making some ghosts to scare people, but I really didn't expect it to be so realistic and delicate, comparable to a movie scene. Great!
When we came out of the Haunted Mansion, we suddenly found that there were many people sitting neatly on both sides of the road (Japanese people bring placemats so that they can sit on the spot when there are no seats in the restaurant, or when watching the parade). After asking around, we found out that there would be a parade at around 4 o'clock. In fact, Yunluo was not very interested at first and wanted to try more activities, but her girlfriend was looking forward to it.
Yunluo had no choice but to wait with us. We made a fatal mistake here, that is, we sat on the side facing the sun. Not only was it very hot, but most importantly, we couldn't take bright photos of the parade. As a last resort, I could only take photos of the rear of the bus after it passed by, and only at this moment would the photos be bright.
There was a cute little Japanese girl next to me. When the parade passed by, she kept shouting the names of the cartoon characters excitedly (I guessed because she was speaking Japanese and I couldn't understand her), but Yunluo was also excited. After the parade ended after about half an hour.
Yunluo and An Chuyu headed to the next scenic spot, Animal World. It was only around five o'clock, and the fastpasses for Splash Mountain were no longer distributed. Yunluo and An Chuyu had no choice but to line up obediently. But they watched helplessly as people in the fastpass channel whizzed in, while the team on Yunluo and An Chuyu's side moved very slowly.
I'm not willing to give up! I actually waited in line for more than an hour for this project. But Splash Mountain itself is still worth playing. It's exciting enough but not too exciting, and there are some cartoon elements of small animals in it, which are lively and cute. Here I have to mention how rustic Yunluo and An Chuyu are. There will be an automatic photo when the boat falls out of the cave.
When the photo was developed, Yunluo and An Chuyu were dumbfounded. Among the eight people in the four rows on the boat, only Yunluo and An Chuyu were screaming with their eyes closed, while the three rows in front and behind were making pre-rehearsed actions and expressions such as the heart. In order not to pollute everyone's eyes, Yunluo kept this photo privately.
Let's post a photo of other boats making their debut. Because we waited in line for so long, it was already dark when we came out of Splash Mountain. Considering that it was a long trip, Yunluo and An Chuyu hurriedly took a few photos. I really didn't expect that Splash Mountain would become our last attraction in Disneyland. (~^~)