Back from Japan Sakura Tour
Filed in: Life Log — April 17th, 2009
I am back from Japan Sakura tour for over a week. Tired but satisfied. Met the cherry blossom and the Mt. Fuji.
It was a tight trip and traveled a lot. We stayed for 5 nights and switched 5 hotels. Although not much shopping time, we still managed to buy many Japanese tidbits.
The greatest shopping time was in Ginza. Many tour members went to Burberry in Ginza for the “Blue Label” bags (only available in Japan).
We had not less than 10 Burberry bags in the tour bus! I too bought a Burberry bag (not blue label) for mom. My largest spend in Japan. 
Impression on Japan
- Clean environment. The streets, rivers, air, toilets… are all clean. No rubbish at all! (but you hardly find a rubbish bin?!)
- Good shopping experience. All items are fixed price. No bargain. No cheat. Sales persons are nice and polite.
- black stockings. Almost EVERY young Japanese girls are wearing the same, black stockings with short pants/skirt.
- Cabs for hire. There were many empty cabs parked along road side in a row to wait for customers. According to the tour guide, they were greatly affected by the economy crisis because taxi fares were no longer claimable to companies.
- Human beings are prioritized on road.In Japan, human has the priority. You crossover the road and the approaching cars will stop for you. That’s impossible in Malaysia. The cars might even accelerate if they spot you crossing the road!
- Japanese girls are not beautiful. Sorry, I rarely see beautiful Japanese girls but cute one. They tend to prefer “cute” than “beautiful”.
Will I visit Japan again? Definitely. Hokkaido, perhaps.
Photos? Still in process… GBs of them! All RAW! I am learning to use Apple Aperture to process the RAW images. I also geotag them using Maperture, an Aperture plugin.
