yokoso japan! - Part II Tokyo Outskirts
christmas day.
first thing in the morning, after checking out of the hostel, we went to collect our rental car from the Nissan-rent-a-car outlet at Ueno. we had booked it online the day before from the ToCoo! website, which lini found. great thing is the website is in english, they have english-speaking staff and they offer big discounts from the walk-in rate. however, the Nissan-rent-a-car had not received the booking from ToCoo!. we knew ToCoo! could not possibly have processed the booking so soon but decided to just turn up at the rental car shop anyways. after several phone calls to ToCoo!, negotiating with the non-english-speaking car rental staff (using pictionary method), we managed to get a good deal.
our christmas 'gift' - a Nissan note (j-speak: NOH-toh) which was to accompany us from Tokyo to Kyoto, with stops at a few towns along the way.
first destination: Ghibli museum (j-speak: G-boo-ree)
was a breeze locating the place with the car's GPS. (i love GPS!)
entering the magical land....
Totoro's real day-time job is selling tickets at the Ghibli museum
other whimsical stuff at the museum
one last shot before leaving this magical castle.
wait... one more shot... ok that's all.
Next: Part III Nikko
first thing in the morning, after checking out of the hostel, we went to collect our rental car from the Nissan-rent-a-car outlet at Ueno. we had booked it online the day before from the ToCoo! website, which lini found. great thing is the website is in english, they have english-speaking staff and they offer big discounts from the walk-in rate. however, the Nissan-rent-a-car had not received the booking from ToCoo!. we knew ToCoo! could not possibly have processed the booking so soon but decided to just turn up at the rental car shop anyways. after several phone calls to ToCoo!, negotiating with the non-english-speaking car rental staff (using pictionary method), we managed to get a good deal.
our christmas 'gift' - a Nissan note (j-speak: NOH-toh) which was to accompany us from Tokyo to Kyoto, with stops at a few towns along the way.
first destination: Ghibli museum (j-speak: G-boo-ree)
was a breeze locating the place with the car's GPS. (i love GPS!)
entering the magical land....
Totoro's real day-time job is selling tickets at the Ghibli museum
other whimsical stuff at the museum
one last shot before leaving this magical castle.
wait... one more shot... ok that's all.
Next: Part III Nikko
posted by nan at 11:50 PM
3 Comments:
Where is Part III??? Hurry hurry... Since I still have to sort and photoshop our 3000++ pictures, I might as well read your entry. I definitely hope mine would be up (at least in my kodak gallery) before the next Christmas. Ha ha
just use the photos as they are lah... no need to photoshop. akan datang for the other Parts... mayb have to blog in nz hahhaaa..
I photoshop not to remove 'flaws' la, but there are just to many photos I want to feature. So I have to combine a few photos into one to save space! Ha ha!!
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