Day 3 - 5 in Japan!

The fact that I'm posting means we lived through the ordeal....

Actually, is it the 5th day? Let me do a quick review.

Day 1 - Shinagawa (Arrival)
Day 2 - Shinagawa
Day 3 - Shinagawa (Switched hostel)
Day 4 - Moved out to Kyoto
Day 5 - In Kyoto

Hmm yeah. Wow it's day 5/14 (or was it 15? I forgot).

This is the continuation from previous entry! And sorry, no photos cuz I'm using hostel facilities. Zzz 100yen for 40mins internet.... I guess it's still much better than my trip 4yrs ago when it was only for 10mins...

Time to speed blog before I continue slapping Elmdor and his loonie parties apart!

So, in the end, the hostel guy helped us buy tickets to Kyoto and we didn't bother with the return trip =D We stopped by this small ramen shop for dinner and wah lao. I ate their miso ramen. The amount of douya (taugay?) they dumped into my bowl is like my whole year's worth of douya combined I ever ate. Tmd I didn't know if it was miso ramen or miso douya.... BLARGH. Then we wandered out of the shop and went out to find our next hostel. And once again, we wandered in 8 different directions and never found the damned hostel.

So we retreated and asked the hostel guy... Apparently we're all blind asses at night hahaaa. So we delayed searching for the hostel.

After bathing was our first battle with the 200yen washing machine.

Wow.

City kids are extremely stupid, period.

Sis and moi brought down our laundry and came face to face with the money eating brown colour painted machine. We dumped 200yen in before we started reading the instructions... It said something about pressing a certain button within 10 seconds after we put in the coins. Wow we did that only after a minute and there was no reaction. We stared at the water puking out and mixing and making out on its own while the laundry was still in our hands...and we stared for 5mins before we wandered what was supposed to happen. The instructions said something about not putting in soap and clothes first so we didn't... ... ... Yeah, 200yen wasted.

We came down 10mins later with the washing machine "madly spinning in place" and wow, the water had drained and was refilling so we poured clothes and soap in... and yay, it was a patronising rinse before the machine puked our clothes out with soap on. ... Thus, we restarted the whole process, this time pressing the damned button.

In the end, the stupid button's function was to pause 30 seconds to let us dump clothes and soap in before they started spitting water. Wowww city kids are stupid.

We also served a bit of net before going to sleep...and my old habit of playing psp before sleeping kicked in DX

Woke up at 9+ and check out time was 10 aaahahaha. Did a quick clean up, quick pack up and ate cup noodles before we left the hostel. This time sis handed me the sketchy map the hostel guy drew for us and woot! We found ze sister hostel!

...It was amazingly...big. Literally. Unlike the previous hostel, the hostel obasan didn't speak English but her house had good amenities! Even had this super big TV in the room we stayed in O.O The toilet was just outside.

This is a separate note on its own... In Japan, never fear for the quality of public or house toilets. They are all...automated, and wonderfully sanitised. And in this time of coldness, in this time of need, most of them if not all...warm your asses. It's a wonderful invention royalised (?) in all its rightfulness. And no, I don't care for the function of spraying water at your ass or playing music in the middle of boo-boo.

So, this hostel lady owns this cute dog! Which, sadly, I didn't take a photo of. Either it's just me or all dogs in Japan are docile blur and kok. (!?)

So, being lazy asses, we crashed into bed and slept until 1 +__O

I forgot what we did the whole day. I think we went out to Tokyo main station to check out the place to take the bus in case on the day itself we couldn't find it. (Searching for hostel freaked us out) It turned out surprisingly easy to find though.

We had an inner battle for like 10mins before we decided to check with the Ticket Information counter for the ticket from Kyoto back to Tokyo...cuz y'know, we couldn't really speak Jap for nuts. I think we stood there thinking how to say "Kyoto kara Tokyo made no basu kippu wo uttemasuka?" In the end we went up to the guy and asked, "Do you speak English?" Wow thank God he said, "A little bit." Hahaa throughout the whole thing, he was so serious, sincere and battle like it was kinda funny. I think when we were done and thanked him he was kinda amused too xD

Started shopping at the Yaesu shopping basement or something. Ugh. My feet never hurt so much before. Ass. Friggin long shopping malls.

While I wanna talk more about my shopping trip, frig I'm left with 40% of 40mins to blog and I haven't even talked about getting to Kyoto. So I'll talk about it when erh...I'm accessing internet again.

Ever snipped, we once again ate Bento dinner and wah lao. Is it just me or the soft bone or boneless Unagi all decided to unanimously extinct?!

We watched variety shows back at the hostel over dinner... I don't exactly remember the titles but we watched 3 variety shows:
1. Love Mail?
2. Artistes' past
3. Some challenge thing
Gahhh hh h no time to talk about them xD Would go into more detail later hahaa. Damn funny can. Hopefully can find it on youtube next time.

The bathroom is super old type, but the hostel lady sealed the bath or something. Seems like the standard thing about every Japanese bathrooms is a bath tub, a stool and a shower system that involves both shower head and a tap connected. So you can either bathe standing or sitting. And bathing at old style bathrooms past 10pm is friggin creepy. If horror games ever included Japanese bathrooms...

OH NO!! 20% left!!

...So, we woke up, put our luggage with the hostel lady before wasting our lives away at shopping malls. For some funny reason, my mother and sis both didn't sleep while I was dead as a log, and all 3 of us were supposedly sick, or rather "heaty"...

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Nooooo. I think I'll log in tomorrow. 5 mins left!

Anyhoo. Waiting for the 10pm bus was the most gruesome time of my life. And the next most gruesome thing is? The trip was from 10om to 6am+. The bus seats...were maybe 3/4 or 2/3 of Genting buses and could not really stretch. D= And the whole bus only stopped once at 12 for a toilet break before it never stopped. I couldn't really sleep -.-||| And frig, they reached at 5+... But check in time for hostel was 7am!!!

We were cold...and tired...and hiding in the corridor of another hotel xD Surprisingly, the staff that walked past didn't find us suspicious and even said good morning .......

...And thus, my online time ends.

More updates hopefully tml! xD Goodnight!