Tokyo Gotemba Trip - Back to the City Life

Yeah just one final shoot of Mt Fuji with the blue blue sky before I leave. :)

It is the final day that we stayed in Gotemba. It has been a long week here and I started to get familiarize and fall in love with a place, then it is about time for you to leave. (Deng...) Anyway we have a quick tour that morning before we left. I have been LB's tour guide for the last 15 minutes to bring her around for a quick tour. We have went up the hill again to get some shoot for the Mount Fuji before we say good bye to this place.

More photos after the jump...

On the train and on our way to Tokyo

Guess where is this place? :)

It is PRONTO!! :"D

Alright, that's my lunch. :)

We have departed from the hotel via the hotel shuttle and go to Tokyo via train. After checking in, we have went out to hunt for our lunch. (yes we are starving) :"P And guess what, we have give a final try and see if we have the luck to get a ticket to Ghibli Museum and guess what, We manage to buy it!! (As a FYI, you will not be able to get your entrance ticket at the Ghibli Musuem, you will need to per bought it before you go at LAWSON.) I guess luck is on our side and finally we manage to go to a place that we have been dream of for quite sometimes. :") (Yes, we have been watching all the Ghibli's anime for many years, so the excitement is there when you got to know that you finally got a chance to visit the museum) x"D And oh  yeah, we have our lunch at Pronto. I think they are pretty famous for their macha latte. So, do remember to try it out if you all are there. ;)

Guess there is a limit of height here.

Oh yeah, city life

Oh no! the fish is flying towards the sky! \O/

We still have sometimes after we finish our lunch, so we decided to wonder around the area near by and understand how and where all the places is located. :)

Here we go

In the train

A fast and slow pace life

Waiting for train - check out that cool guy there. ;)

Kids in train - Guess they just finish their school

Finally arrived at the station

Tokyo transportation has been very convinient, you could move around the town easily with their train system. (As long as you understand how their train system work - Lucky us). Of course, the train station/train has been another interesting places. (At least that's for me). It is like a place where everybody gather. And you could observed and see all kind of people around you. :") Anyway, we are on our way to the Ghibli Museum. :"D Hehe.

Having a rest at the roadside.

Alright, it is not that far, (700m away!)

The hugh robot in the Laputa cartoon

There is stall that sell ice cream and hot dog too. :)

Some conspiracy is going here. (Emm...)

One last shoot outside the museum before we move on. :")

Finally we are here in Ghibli museum. I will say that it is a pretty small museum. (Don't aspect it to be like a Disney land). It is just a mansion on the history of all the cartoons from Ghibli as well as how the early age of cartoons are created. :) (Oh ya, there is also a 15min cartoon show for the visitors - and the cartoon is different for each of the month). :) Too bad, they don't allow photographing inside the museum. So you could only see the photos taken outside the museum in stead. :)

Just love the parking area beneath the house. :")

The hand (and the poor uncle as well)

everybody is going back

and the train is here. (and PRESS to stop immediately)

Some building view outside the train

Guess there are not much people in the train - it is getting late

LB getting a shoot here before we went for our dinner. ;)

Oh yeah some classic Japanese food stall! Cool!

This is where we have our dinner. And this unique machine is use to blend coffee bean. :)

A night view from our room window. Night Tokyo.

And yes, that's how the whole day has ended. We have a pretty interesting day I will say, moving from a more village life to a more pack and busy city life now. But seriously I am glad that we could make it to the Ghibli Museum. I am not sure when I will be back to Tokyo again. but at least I am pretty happy about it that day. :)

Alright I think that's all I got for tonight. I will try to post more soon. I hope that all of you will have a pleasant evening as well. Night people. :)

* For those who are interested, the full gallery could be viewed here.