Time to say good-bye...

After (yet) another scrumptious breakfast at Tsukiji, it's time to load up on tidbits from the market to bring home.

Taking a final tea break in a quaint famous Japanese dessert place in Ginza.



It's simply delightful!

Before you know it, it's time to head to the airport. But a great finale is needed. What better way than a bottle of Umi liquer, of course! Until the next time, Tokyo.

Harajuku!

It's breakfast at Tiffany's...NOT!It's the wonderful Tsukiji!

Then it's off to Harajuku for some great shopping!


But it was an unbelieveably hot day...

So we took a pit stop at a cool lil cafe.

We might have finally shopped out....so off to meet Stanley & Lucy!

Nice way to end the evening :-)

Hakone open air museum

Getting squished in the commuter train heading towards Gora.

Decided to take a stop to pop in the Hakone Open Air Museum.
And what a delight it turned out to be!

It was an amazing museum of sculptures set against a breathtaking view of the Hakone landscape.



Can you believe that I'm in a tower (about 6 storeys high) where we are surrounded by stained glass art pieces? Simply awesome.

Hakone, we are still here

What a lovely day! With our Hakone Freepass, we are all set to do our round trip Hakone course.

A quaint machine that churned out like cute, tasty sweet pastries.

We are on our way to our first stop. The Old Cedar Avenue...

Taking a stroll through the Cedar Avenue, the old road to Edo, which was commonly used by the aristocrats in the old days.


Next step, a cruise on Lake Ashi where you can get a glimpse of Fuji Yama on a good clear day. Unfortunately, it wasn't. So with nothing more to look forward to, we found ways to entertain ourselves.

Ah, something interesting!

Ok, back to self entertainment. Now, that was a fun cruise!

Next, the Hakone Ropeway to Owakudani to see the wonderful smoking volcano and of course, to get a taste of the famous "Black Eggs".


The rundown shack sells the famous eggs. Each egg was supposed to give you 7 years of longevity. People were just crowding around cracking and eating these eggs with salt. Think we will pass.

But took some souvenirs with us instead. Kawaii!

Hmmm, interesting message...sounds like a haiku?

Hakone, here we come!

Guan was finally done with work and off to Hakone we go! Taking the Romance Car (nothing romantic lah), we would be in Hakone in 1.5hrs.

Armed with our bento boxes from Odakyu Food Street, we are all set. And boy, it was YUMMY! Down to the last grain.

Finally, we were in Ryokan Tachibana! Check out the view from our room.

Once settled in, we started getting in the mood...for onsen and a ryokan lifestyle of course! What were you thinking? Since no camera is allowed in the onsen, you would just have to imagine it.

In typical Lims' style, there's only one way to end the day....KAISEIKI!