Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Japan Trip 2008 - Day 6

17th Oct Fri (Toyama-Tateyama Alpine Route-Matsumoto-Nagoya-Osaka)
Today will be Tateyama Alpine Route Day..4 tics to be prepared.

Tickets for Toyama
Leaving at 7am.had quick brkfast in hotel n rush train for 725am train from Dentetsu Toyama station (nt JR) to Tateyama 立山station ard 1hr (ticket is part of the route package).at the station, we have to chg the ticket to get the cable car ticket from Tateyama Eki to Ogizawa. From Tateyama,we took cable car to Bijodaira 美女平. 7mins.For this stop, everyone will jux squeeze in cable car,so bit hard to tk photos.


At Bijodaira, there’s 2 stops for us to go, is either go for Stopover (before reach Murodo) or directly go to Murodo. We of cos go for stopover, else the tic will be wasted.


When reached at the stopover at Midagahara at ard 945am (Jap time), started to wear my thick jacket, cold~ haa..on the way, was abit able to take pics. And the maple leaves r nt really red.weather was great wif few clouds.hee.and mountains looks great with sun shone on em.went further down,took lots of paromana view.ha.saved me alot of time also.

Stopover at Midagahara
hee.took 1035am bus from Midagahara to Murodo liao,


tkg Tateyama Travel Trolley Bus at ard 1110am to Daikanbon (where u can see whole scenery from top).


From Daikanbon, we will be tkg Tateyama Ropeway down to Kurobedaira.

While waiting for ropeway, we ate some food samples,nice wor.milk almond.real gd.bought some hm too.this stop nth to se.haa.den but was able to feel strong wind n from inside can see beautiful view of outside liao.took some pics first.and who noes outside even nicer,as in wider angle to tk pics.go to the Observatory area. Able to see autumn leaves of colour mixture of green,red,yellow,orange,brown.jux great! With cable car as foreground.woo.haa.





Time up for Tateyama Ropeway down from Daikanbon to Kurobedaira. Here we can see another view of autumn leaves again..bigger and wider angle..nicee..went to the top for better view..




time to take Kurobe Cable Car to Kurobeko at 1220pm where we have to walk along the Kurobe Dam.


too bad nt able to see water at the Dam leh.as seen at those tourism photos.sian.but autumn leaves r gd enuf.Many obasan,ojisan went to all these.nvr see young ppl wor. Only those travellers.this place can be visited for autumn.As for other season,nt really sure.haa.


From Kurobe Dam, took Trolley Bus to Ogizawa (Last stop of the route) Today our timing was planned very gd.thanks to em.cos if missed one time,might hv to wait for a certain period.bit waste tm plus many ppl.might tk up time n place.at last stop,was v nice too but sometimes sun too strong also cant see anything.but nt bad liao.hee.heng ah.




ate Masu no Sushi there.nt bad-tasted like smoked salmon?abit. cost ¥750.

Masu no Sushi
quite late le.ltr v long journey hm.1hr bus ride from Ogizawa to Matsumoto and Matsumoto to Kyoto 2hrs.den rush for Shinkansen from Kyoto to Shin Osaka.hate rushing.haa.but unlimited n fast.no choice.

Rushing for Shinkansen
and again hv to eat e same place (outside hotel) for 3times.haa.nt bad la,n cheap.no choice.came back too late-all closed.ordered Katsu Don.ha.and saw the chef pour one scoop of egg onto e fried breaded Katsu.damn nice leh.shiok!Ha.

katsu Don~
jialat.been eating supper since day 1.cos lunch always nt a proper meal.tink wun gain any weight.haa.supper also digested by zz n walking from morn to lunch or evening.

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