Tokyo Trip: Nakano and Shinjuku

This morning, we had breakfast provided by the hotel before starting our trip to Nakano. We were supposed to go to Hakone today but all of us felt tired from the flight yesterday and did not want to wake up early this morning so we decided to swap today's itinerary with Sunday's.

We reached Nakano rather early and many shops had just started opening for business. We walked along the shopping street and went into a drug store. 小花 and Tulip were interested in nail polish, while Ms S bought 2 bottles of Kose cleansing oil as it was much cheaper than in Singapore. We then passed by Uniqlo and saw that they were having sale so we went in to have a look. I ended up buying 2 turtleneck long sleeve T-shirts and a pair of room pants. I also bought 3 pairs of socks for 1,000 yen at another shop for my mum and 2 sisters.

We were starting to feel hungry so we decided to go for lunch at a highly recommended shop selling cheap and good unagi rice bowl. We were not very sure of the location so we just walked till the end of the shopping street and just before Nakano Broadway, we saw the shop 宇奈とと in the street to our right. We quickly went in but as there were not enough seats, we were shown to the 2nd floor. The food was delicious but the only disappointment was that there were people smoking at some tables, so we quickly finished our meal and left as we could not stand the smoke, .

After lunch, we continued shopping at Nakano Broadway. There was another tidbits shop and we were pleasantly surprised to find the yuzu strips candy that was not available at the Ueno shop. We bought all of it as well as some other tidbits.We also went to the basement level and walked around a marketplace where locals shop for groceries.

After that, we decided to go to Shinjuku. We went to the nearby Sanrio Gift Gate but did not find anything to buy. We were feeling a bit tired so we stopped by Muji Cafe to have Yuzu tea for tea break. We then went to the Agnes B section at OIOI to look for bags. We were surprised that some bags that we had just bought during our October trip were already on 50% sale. 小花 bought a sling bag for herself and I bought a bag for my mum.

We then continued shopping around before proceeding to 博多天神 for dinner. This has been 小花 and my favourite ramen shop in Shinjuku and we always come here if we are in the area. The ramen was still of the same standard as before. Yummy! :)

We went back to our hotel to share the cakes that we had bought earlier. We decided to try a similar can of alcoholic sparkling lemon juice as the pear flavoured one that we had yesterday was nice. However, we still preferred the cakes and drink yesterday.