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Japan trip continued from last post.......
Day 10: Okutama-lake and Nippara cave in Okutama
This place was a last minute decision to go when we planned our itinerary. We realised we could't find other places to put into our plan, so decided on this. But we didn't make the wrong choice. It is a very good place for sceneries, especially in Tokyo where it is a city. The journey is long though. About 2 hours journey is needed from Ikebukuro. Along the way into the rural Okutama, nice sceneries appeared on both sides of the train. We were busy taking photos and enjoying the sceneries.
Upon reaching Okutama station, we took a 30mins bus up the winding roads and about 20 mins walk to the nippara limestone cave. During out walk, we saw the rural houses, the vegetations planted by the people living there, and the different shades of colours of the trees on the mountains. This is my dream place to live when I am old. Along the way, friendly obaasan greeted us and urge us to buy wasabi (grown easily in Okutama, their specialty produce) from them.
The huge fresh cabbages and vegetables planted by the people....
The autumn leaves changing colours...
Finally reached the nippara cave...
We walk around in the wet cave. Sometimes climbing up and down stairs. There are name boards in some places of the cave. Some rock structures resemble a thing, hence is label with names. Some gods are placed in the cave also.
We saw a signboard stating a new cave forms here and there is an exit after climbing up and we decided to follow the path. We regreted after that, as we had to climb many steep slippery stairs up and again down before reaching the original place and exiting the other way...aiya..
After a tired climb, we left the cave. Before that I took some pictures with the rivers outside the cave.
On our way back, we took more photos of the sceneries...
Maple leaves!! My aim of going to Japan is to see the maple leaves changing colours...my dream is fulfilled.
Back at Okutama station, we waited for the bus to the okutama lake. A few uncles were barbecuing fishes which I think they fished themselves. They were selling to the tourists there.. the smell was tempting, but they are expensive..
Not willing to pay so much for a small fish, I bought wasabi ice-cream instead..hee. Eating ice-cream on a cool day is special, plus its slightly spicy...
We got up the bus to Okutama lake and reached in about 20 mins.
There is a dam built on the Okutama lake to regulate the water flow.
I love the natural sceneries here.. with cool weather..
Since Okutama is a mountainous area, there are many onsens there. On our way there, a very friendly uncle thought we are lost and finding our way to the station. He pointed to the station direction and urge us forward. However, after knowing we are finding the onsen, he again warmly pointed to the onsen direction and bidded us goodbye..we were so touched. Since I already tried onsen before and one of my friends don't want to go in, we tried the foot bath instead. The bath was so hot...my friend couldn't get her legs in....
Look how red my legs were...
Okutama in the evening is very cold... possibly below 10 degrees celsius...so when we were leaving Okutama and waiting for the train, we were shivering like mad..haha
Day 11: Tsukiji market, Sensoji temple, Akihabara and Ginza
This day, we woke up really early at 430am, so as to get to the Tsukiji market in time to see their tunas and caught from the sea. Along the way, we met a singapore couple who boasted to us about their expenses of 10K on the business class of SIA A380. Aiya, typical singaporean rich people behavior, so "throw face". The market is very super busy, in fact I think we are obstructing their work..veri paiseh..Some of the fishmongers were angry we were hindering their business...
There are a lot of different seafood in the market, huge abalones, red fresh prawns and shrimps, fishes, tunas, squid, octopus, crabs, sea clams...
After squeezing through the market, we popped into a sushi restaurant beside the market for the freshest sushi you can find in tokyo. They are really declicious, each sushi had small knead rice and large portion of fish or squid or fish roe on it. Very worth it.
We tried different sushi, even the urchin sushi..the gold plate in the middle is the urchin sushi...yummy 
The fish roe sushi is superb, very tasty and fresh. I couldn't resist and ate a 2nd plate.
In total, we ate 19 plates of sushi for breakfast. The sushi chef are amazed, and told us not to resist and carry on eating...haha
After our fill, we went to the Sensoji temple, very famous where everyone who goes to tokyo will surely visit the temple.
Along the way, many stalls are available for you to purchase souvenirs. The red bean cakes are especially famous along the street, with a few stalls selling. Some even are handmade. You can see chefs sitting there making the cakes. Very delicious with large amount of red bean paste in it.
Reached the mainhall entrance, large traditional shoes hang on the walls to celebrate a special festival.
We pray and I wish for a fortune lot. It states I have a moderate fortune :)
The old street and buildings...
The next is Akihabara and Ginza, which we don't really have interest in. Just a brief walk on the streets..
The flowers in the shape of hello kitty is Kawaii. The stall is outside a shopping centre in Ginza. 
After walking through shopping centres and Muji, we headed back to the ryokan.
Day 12: Back to Singapore
We pull and carry our luggages to the station, up and down the stairs. So tired that we wanted to faint. When we are finally on the keisei line to airport, we were so relieved. We waited for 3 hours to check-in.
While waiting, we went to the 2nd level which allow us to look at planes flying off. This is also the filming place for the jap drama in which Takuya Kimura is a captain.
Spotted a northwest plane which we will be taking a similar one.
The origami exhibition in one of the dutyfree shops.
So we said goodbye to japan and flew back to Singapore. So sad, as you can see my expression in the photo.
I still miss Japan a lot even until now. But beside the Sushi, takoyaki and Okonomiyaki, I don't miss the udon, soba, don there. I eat all these for lunch and dinner almost everyday. So I am scared of them now.
Hope to go to Japan soon!!! I am still uploadibg all the photos, so when I completes, will give you all the website.