This was the
third day in Tokyo. I woke up at the same time and found that it was raining. I
waited at the lobby of the hotel and hoped that the rain would stop soon.
However, I sat at the lobby for half an hour and it seemed like the rain would
not stop. But the rain was only light. I decided to go out because I didn’t
want to stay at the hotel for the whole day and I also had a program I would
like to do this day.
I walked in
the light rain without an umbrella. I used only my notebook to cover my head.
This day I
went to Shinjuku. I took a subway there and hoped that the rain would stop when
I got out of the subway station. Unfortunately, it was still raining.
I walked to Tokyo
Metropolitan Government Building where tourists can go up to the observatory deck
to see the view of Tokyo for free.
I arrived
there. I saw some visitors were taking a queue in front of the elevator. Every
visitor had to show their bag to the security guard before going up. Then, the staff
brought the visitors to get in the elevator to the observatory deck.
On the
observatory deck, I saw some visitors walking around to see the view of Tokyo
and some souvenir shops. I looked out of the window. I could not see the view
clearly because it was a rainy day. If I had come on a sunny day, I would have been
able to see Mount Fuji from here.
I went down to the second floor of the observatory deck and went to another side. The side I just left was the south and I was going to the north side. There were less people at the observatory deck of the north side and it was very quiet here. I noticed a foreign guy sitting on a chair looking at me scarily. I pretended not to look back at him. I finished looking the view here and went to the elevator. I was the only one waiting for the elevator. When the door of the elevator opened, the staff invited me to go in. At first I thought I would be the only one in the elevator but when the door was going to close, that guy came in the elevator suddenly so there would be only me and him in the elevator. I felt scared of him. The staff closed the elevator and bowed to me and him until the elevator closed. I wanted to go out of the elevator because I didn’t want to take the elevator with him alone but I knew it was too late. I pretended to act like usual. When the door of the elevator opened, I got out quickly and walked to the souvenir shop because I saw a lot of people there. He was still walking behind me. I pretended to look at the souvenirs and checked if he was still there. He stopped in front of the shop for a while and took an escalator to go down to the first floor. I felt much better.
I walked out
of the building to the subway. It was still showering.
I was going
to Meiji Shrine. I took the subway to Yoyogi Station. The rain was getting harder.
I had to buy an umbrella at the Family Mart shop. The cashier staff took the
plastic covering the umbrella for me so the umbrella was ready to use.
Before I went
to Meiji Shrine, I wanted to have lunch first. I chose a local restaurant. I
had to walk up the stairs to that restaurant. I felt scared a bit. But when I
arrived, it was a fine restaurant. There were only a few customers. The staff
came to give the menu to me. It was all Japanese. I chose a meal I could read.
It was Tonkatsu which is pork fried with breadcrumbs and I ate this in Thailand many times.
The staff
served a set of Tonkatsu to me. There were a dish of Tonkatsu, Japanese rice, pickled
vegetables and shell soup. At first, I didn’t
dare to try the shell soup but when I tasted the soup a bit, it was good.
I could observe
that in restaurant in Japan, customers can smoke even if it is an indoor
restaurant. You can find an ashtray on every
table. Moreover, you can get a good service from staff of every restaurant.
I walked to
Meiji Shrine and had to take an umbrella all the time.
Meiji Shrine
was very big. You can find a lot of Japanese families coming there to pray. Children and some adults will wear
Japanese national dress. I made a wish at Meiji Shrine as well.
Then, I
walked to Harajuku, a place where Japanese teenagers like to go. You can find a
lot Japanese teenagers wearing dresses like they are from Cartoon Wolrd
(Closplay). I saw some westerner girls there who dressed up as well.
I walked
around and walked to Shibuya. It is not near from Harajuku but not too far to
walk there for me. I could do some sightseeing on the way.
Shibuya on
the day time and rainy day was still busy.
I took the
subway to Ginza because I heard that the main street of Ginza will be closed in
the afternoon every weekend to let people enjoy shopping there.
The main street
of Ginza was full of people. It looked very nice. It was a great shopping place
but I am a girl who doesn’t like shopping so I only came there to walk around.
Even if it is a shopping place, you might imagine that there will only be young
people but I also saw a lot of groups of old Japanese people coming there to
enjoy walking around there, same as me, and they seemed to have fun.
After
walking around Ginza, I went back to my hotel and took a rest for a while. It
was a really rainy day. It never stopped all day.
At night, I
went to Shibuya again. It was still raining and seemed harder. Shibuya street
was full of people walking around with umbrellas. It could be a nice picture.
But when I crossed the street, I thought it was not so easy to walk because my
umbrella crashed the others’ umbrellas many times.
I had to go
back to the hotel early because the rain got even harder.
When I took the
subway back to the hotel, I started feeling sad without any particular exact.
Only 2 days
left, then I would have to leave Japan.
When I was
in the bedroom, I called to my boyfriend in Thailand and cried a looooootttt
because I didn’t want to leave from here. Even if sometimes I wondered myself
why I had to cry, I could not know and kept crying.
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