Hello Kitty Café Odaiba : Café de Miki by Hello Kitty

Earlier January I went to this Hello Kitty Café impulsively with my friends, Shelley. Impulsive as we really didn’t have any plan at all, and she suddenly blurted out, “Oh I wanna go to Hello Kitty Café in Odaiba” and I directly said “Okay then let’s go now.”

We didn’t regret it!! Impulsive decision is still the best. Hahaha.

We went there by train stopping at the nearest station, called Odaiba Kaihinkoen (お台場海浜公園)　and walk around 5 minutes to a shopping mall called “Diver City” as the café were inside the building.

Great thing about Odaiba is, along the way, we can see several famous landsight too such as the Liberty Statue (which very resembles the one in America), the famous Rainbow Bridge, several illumination, Fuji TV building, Gundam Real Life Statue and so on. 5 minutes walk become 20 minutes longer, taking photos here and there.

Once we reached, progesterone level went high.

The interior inside were so cute! It has British theme all over.

Notice as the main middle table’s chair had ribbon on it.

A small kitty shop selling merchandise were right next to the cashier.

We were quite confused at that time because how can there were no people at all at that time? Maybe because it was weekdays? We went there on Tuesday indeed, around 18.00. But no people at all seems so strange.

Anyway.

Good thing that all the café spots are available for taking photos without being interfered by other people!!

High Five.

After being mesmerized by all the cuteness, we finally ordered our meal directly at the cashier. I can’t remember each set price but If I were not mistaken it cost around 700-1.500 yen per set. Both of us combined spent about 3000 yen there.

My order was the Choco Banana Kitty Pancake.

And my friend’s order was Hello Kitty Apple Pie set.

Both come with one drink that we can choose, but we both choose coffee as the bitterness will somewhat balance the sweetness well.

The food taste... normal. We cannot complain more since we both know that the selling points of this kind of café were not the taste of the food but the whole nuance of eating meals surrounded by Hello Kitty cuteness.

After finishing our meal, we went for taking several photos more and we decided to go and to explore more of the other side of Odaiba. 

Pardon my dirty face and lousy fashion sense. In my defense, impulsive decision requires no makeup and I dress to survive in winter, not to look fashionable. The pain of a tropical kid..

We’re both went out from the café with triple amount of happiness added in our face.

Even though I’m not a Hello Kitty fan at all, but who will not melt with Kitty cuteness once entering a café like this? A café worth visiting.

Any recommended cute café in Tokyo? I would like to try and review if I can!!

Tokyo Disneyland Christmas 2014

Another bucket list came true!!!

Last time after I went to Disneysea, I promise myself to go to Disneyland in Christmas to see how will it be on Christmas. Especially after saw this ad.

The ad was so inviting.

Wah. And after I went, how it turned out to be??? AWESOME. Crazy awesome. All the cold was worth it.

I went with Shelley, my work colleague plus my friend from Singapore!! She works for Muji also fyi. Hahaha. This time since the weather is nice, we targeted all the show plus taking photos, knowing that we arrived there quite late around 11.00 in the afternoon, we don’t have much time to queue for all the rides (which without taking fast pass in the morning, waiting time is average 1 hour for the famous attractions). So in the end we only enter the lousy attraction one which required less than 15 minutes waiting hahah.

Disney Christmas feeling start getting pumped up from the station!!

Start from the gate we were surprised by the big Christmas tree in the middle of the World Bazaar Venue. Took all the photos!!!

And yet we can see here all the people wear costume dress as cute as possible while in Disneyland. Really makes you forget all the difficulty in the world hahahah.

Walk a little bit further, we found the Cinderella Castle, the iconic building of Disneyland. Too bad at that day we have no time to explore the inside, so from here, next journey to Disneyland planned already. Smirk smirk.

The Bazaar Venue from the castle side POV.

Finish taking selfies, we went for the Pirates of Caribbean ride. Quite interesting, but not mind-blowing enough. Just amazed by how the dolls were so unbelievably real-life looking. Finish with the ride, we wait for the “Minnie oh Minnie” Performance show, however too bad due to windy weather, the show were cancelled, but in the end all the cast come out and and say hi!

Feeling quite hungry, unwilling to have a proper meal yet, we went queuing for several stalls that sell chicken teriyaki sticks for 430yen each, turkey legs for 540yen each, mickey strawberry churros for 140yen each, and I bought white chocolate popcorn bucket for 2100yen! Regular popcorn is only 400yen something each cup though, however I have to buy the bucket, Mr Potato Bucket damn cute HAVE TO BUY.

On the middle we prepared for Special Christmas Parade which was to be started on around 4. Shelley brought picnic sheet, place it near the parade line (everyone do that..) and while we eat Turkey Leg, we sat and wait. Too bad I didn’t take too much photos since I record all of the show.

It was, well, happy. This happy feeling after the show that cannot be described. Sooooo happy. It was quite a show. However, there’s still several show that we have to watch so we left the spot  and decided to went in for some shops and buy several accessories and souvenirs. And of course, take photos too.

In between we make a visit to A Small World ride too. It was quite fun.

Our proper meal after the ride was Mickey burger (came as a set, with drink and potato for 1100yen) and I brought another Mickey Strawberry Cheese cake for around 400yen If I’m not wrong.

And too bad, after the meal, my phone completely out of battery, so I cannot take anymore pictures so all these picture are from Shelley’s camera and phone.

After our dinner, we didn’t stroll around that much, but we saw all the parades such as “Electrical Parade Dreamlights”, and the newest projection mapping show on Cinderella Castle “Once Upon a Time” plus the fireworks about 20 minutes each.

Electrical Parade was fabulous.

Once upon a time?

IT.

WAS.

MAGICAL.

I saw the show twice on 7 and on 9 which I didn’t regret because the first show was minus the fireworks due to strong wind, however on 9, all the fireworks came out and it was magic. It was a kind of a show that even a good camera can’t catch how fabulous it is, we can only watch the beauty by our own bare eyes. Fantastic.

Finish with all the parades, we decided to do our last stop of shopping and Shelley brought one big pooh doll, while I buy Mickey Christmas Decoration to be put on my apartment door and until now It still hanging nicely by the way, even though Christmas was over hahahah.

See all the pooh rage. 

Reaching train, we both become jelly, too tired but the euphoria is still high. We don’t know we were that tired until it all finished. It was quite a trip.

And so, with this one day trip to Disneyland is over, but the magic still works until now.

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That’s why we planned to go to Disneysea again next time next year soon. And can’t wait for that time to come!!!!

That Time for Illumination in Tokyo, Again

I know it is so very very late to talk about illumination in this new year, not to mention its 12th already, but in Tokyo, usually until mid Jan, the illumination is still the hot spot everywhere! So i think its still quite acceptable to talk about illumination now.. I guess.

In Tokyo, when it’s still November, for God sake, around two months before Christmas, all the Christmas trees, decoration, special Christmas edition food and etc have already been sold almost, everywhere. I don’t know about other country though since my own country, Indonesia didn’t celebrate Christmas quite as festive as Tokyo but how about your country? Is it the same commercialism Christmas fever??? Quite curious. This Christmas feels soooooooo long since it was already started on November. Quite glad it’s over.

However, when it’s Christmas in Tokyo, we mostly talk about illumination. It’s everywhereeeee and yes it started almost early November too. Talking about Irony. However for this year I only have the chance to take photos of the illumination lights around a place called Nakameguro (中目黒) along the river.  I went there with my Singaporean boy friend. Not boyfriend. A gap between words makes a difference. And that’s how friendzone were born.

This year theme is  “青の洞窟”, “Ao no Dokutsu”, or “Blue Cave”, so they set all the lights around the river, blue. All blueeeee.

At first quite it was quite a shock in the eye though, with all the blue lights. But when got used to it, it was quite pretty!

And not to forget that since Nakameguro seems to be a place that are well known for actor or actress to live here, there are so many stylish (and looks expensive) small fashion, accessories store, cafes along the river too.

Sorry for purple-ish picture..

And this is the main picture!! The best spot for taking photos is the bridge!!

That’s why the crowd were like this along the bridge.

At this time, the crowd is getting dense, so we decided to have a quick stroll and find  place to eat. After some strolling and some arguments, yeah, we decided to stop at quite a fancy Izakaya (drink house) and fill our super duper fungry stomach.

A place full of salaryman, but I think this time they are quite the “more proper” or “economically better” salaryman.

Why? Based on the price menu that I saw, it’s not as cheap as the usual Izakaya here in Japan (which for average normal izakaya, you can spend around 1000 yen per person while here myself spend around 3000 yen).

We ordered some kind of black-spiced chicken, and of course in the cold weather like this nabe is the perfect choice! Slurpie.

And I kinda feel that since I went there with my friend, which is a male, the waitress there gave us several service food like free heart shaped spiced rice, free dessert with inverted crescent moon on Singaporean flag trying to be our wingman but, tsk tsk. Sorry you fail maaan. We ate everything without any feeling and feel happy cause more free food. Hahaha.

And why Singapore flag??? Yes, they ask us where are we coming from, and I just lazily said Im a Singaporean too. Usually when I say Indonesia, all the Japanese didn’t know where that is. Once I said Bali, the directly know. How sad. They really think that Indonesia is inside Bali you know!!! How fucked up is that hahahaha.

If residency based on how many times I told people I’m Singaporean and how Singlish now my English has become, I  think I can be a permanent resident of Singapore now.

After finish with our meal, we decided to take stroll again around Nakameguro and found several small illumination garden.

It’s not as pretty as the blue one, but still it’s quite pretty.

In regret I have to say that was all of my illumination picture I have for this year. I didn’t have any chance to go anywhere else since all the  best spot is quite far from where I live and also have no time, I have to keep in mind that my 2014 illumination memories were placed on this blue cave in Nakameguro.

Anyway, its never too late to say Merry Christmas 2014 and Happy New Year 2015!! 

(as long as it still January.............

...........yeah)