MorE wALkiNG waLKinG WalKIng...

Oh my lord.... what a day!! After 4 days of hybernation, in which I've been spending a large amount of time watching Japanese drama, I'm extremely anxious to urgently expose myself under the sun!! But I did a lot, a lot, and a lot of walking this time (more than last time for sure). These places all have their train stations neaby; however, I insisted to walk for 1 1/2 reasons:

One: To save transportation fee, in other words, this was for money. And a half: I think walking is another slower but clearer way to see the city.

Stop 1: Shimokitazawa (下北沢).

Just for a meal of Beef Curry at a restaurant called Yumeya (夢家).

Stop 2: Meijijingu (明治神宮). Mainly for luck and souvenir.

Stop 3: Ebisu (恵比寿). For a look. :)

Walking from Shibuya towards Shimokitazawa.

Actually, that's that for Shimokitazawa. Hahaha... as I said before, I was planning to go there for the Beef Curry restaurant. HOWEVER, it turned out that it was CLOSED today. Thanks a lot!! So, to forget about the shock and sadness. I didn't take any further pictures. Maybe I would come again to try?!

On the way from Shimokitazawa to Meijijingu.

Who knew that you can see this kind of building in the middle of the city?!

Hahaha... getting close!!

Yo... The "skirt" of Yoyogikoen (代々木公園) and Meijijingu area.

Where I was just walking from.

As it's said on the picture "Yoyogi Park Information".

Thank god for the sunny day.

Heading towards the temple-- the huge entrance.

Information of Meijijingu. You have to walk from the bottom to the middle part.

It was a long walk from the entrance to the temple. I thought.

That's the middle part we saw on the information flyer.

Have to clean up your soul by washing your hand here first.

Done! Now I'm pure! Let's go.

A place you can buy charms for anything you wish for. Health, luck, even love.

Gotta talk to the "jin" or god guarding this temple, and wish for luck.

This is what you can see at the exit/ entrance-- Meijibashi (明治橋).

Cool sign!! I'm walking in Harajuku area again.

I have to eat something I found on the tour book.

Yeah... tacoyaki!!

Tour book recommended the negimayo (ねぎマヨ) flavor-- the amount of green onion surprised me!!

Big taco, too. Not stingy at all. 8 balls for 420 yen.

Walked back down to Shibuya.

Ready to head to Ebisu.

On the way to Ebisu.

Kind of away from Shibuya now.

Yo... Ebisu train station!! But I haven't found anything interesting around it YET.

I haven't explained why I chose to walk did I? Well, from where I live to Shibuya, I have to transfer 2 times. And the point is, every time you transfer, the transportation fee will at least be 130. But if you don't have to transfer, it is only about 10~30 yen difference between two stations. So, if I had to go to Shimokitazawa from my place, I will have to transfer three times: Zoshiki (雑色)-->Shinagawa, Shinagawa--> Shibuya, and then Shibuya--> Shimokitazawa. If figured out it's not that far of a walk from Shibuya to Shimokitazawa for me, so I decided to save the transpartation fee and walk. Same for the walk of Shimokitazawa--> Meijijingu. So, although I didn't get much delicous food today (>"<), but I did a lot of window shopping and saw a lot by walking.

So, for those people who said I'm going to get fat during the stay in Japan, I can only reply "I really don't think so". Gotta go take a bath using the Hakone hot spring powder I bought not long ago.