Tokyo ‘15, Day 12 – Tokyo Disneyland

The next day both my mom and I were very excited, because on this day we were going to Disneyland! We had breakfast downstairs, put on our Disney ears and went on our way~!

Our Disney outfits of the day! ☆
I was honestly a little pissed off at first. We had deliberately chosen the Wednesday to visit Disneyland, because the weather would be really nice. But when we took the metro to Tokyo station it was super grey outside! I was afraid our day would be ruined by the weather, but luckily the sun started shining soon and it turned into a nice day after all! ♥
It took us a while, but finally we arrived at Tokyo Disneyland! ‘Again Disneyland and not Disney Sea?’ you might ask. Yeah, well… maybe someday. x)

Ready for Disneyland!
We left Maihama station and followed the path to Disneyland. Of course, a traditional picture had to be taken underneath the ‘Dreams&Magic – Tokyo Disney Resort – Imagination’ gate.

Every time I cross this gate I get so happy!
We walked on, walked underneath the second, futuristic looking gate and could see the amazing Tokyo Disneyland hotel in the distance. This blue-roofed hotel never ceases to amaze me! ♥ But I think my mom likes it even more. She gets so excited every time she sees it. ^^

My mom in front of the Tokyo Disneyland hotel.
We arrived at the bag check, which went quick and smoothly, and then arrived at the ticket gates. We clearly could have just bought tickets there and then instead of going all the way to Ikebukuro: it wasn’t crowded at all (yet)! Oh well.
Our cute tickets (a Mickey one and a Pluto one) got scanned and we were in!

Our Disneyland tickets.
We already spotted several Disney characters and of course the Halloween decorations. Since our first two trips were in October as well, Disneyland was all decorated in Halloween-style. During our last trip, which was in April, Disneyland was decorated in Easter style and filled with pastel colours. I really loved the fact Disneyland had looked so differently for the first time, but I didn’t mind the Halloween decorations again at all of course. ^^ Disney is cute in every style!

Disney in Halloween style sure makes for a lot of orange pictures, haha!
I went to ask for a map and programme. I had set my mind on the parades this year: I really wanted to see the two day parades if it was possible!
We also spotted lots of dressed up people already. What makes going to Disneyland in Japan fun for at least 50% is just looking at all the dressed up people. So many visitors, no matter their age, really make an effort to look nice! Sometimes it’s just small details, other times it’s whole groups of unison dressed people. It’s amazing! One little boy just wore a Duffy bear suit, but he was so cute! >0<
We decided to look around and find a Disney character to take a picture with it. I ended up posing with Robin Hood.

Posing with Robin Hood. ^^
Since it wasn’t crowded yet, I suggested to my mom to try and see whether the Monsters Inc. ride’s line was acceptable, so we went on our way. We had wanted to try this ride for at least three years, so maybe this would be our chance! We soon arrived at the ride and the line was more than acceptable, as far as we could see. I tried to check when fastpass time was, so we could avoid it and entered the line. At first we moved along quite well, until we got inside. The line there was very short, however somehow I had missed it was fastpass time after all and we ended up waiting super long! I cannot tell you how much I hate this stupid ticket system. I don’t care how convenient it can be, I think it’s stupid. They let so many fastpass people through at the same time, causing the ‘normal’ people to having to wait for so freaking long. I will never cease to hate this system. x)

In line for the Monsters Inc. ride. Waiting took forever…
By the time it was finally our turn, my mom and I almost didn’t feel like doing the ride anymore! However, it was actually super fun: we both got a flashlight and had to point it at Monsters Inc. logos we spotted, causing all kind of things to happen. From monsters jumping out of lockers to Boo hiding in a pile of laundry. It was quite nice, so at least that made up for the long wait. ^^’
We left the ride and walked around the shop next to it for a bit. When we got outside, I went to check where I could spot the fastpass times for a ride (in case I needed to know for another ride). Suddenly, my mom called for me and when I got back to her I suddenly found myself posing with a cute couple wearing Tigger ears who apparently had been snapped by my mom earlier. Ok then, haha!

This couple was just too cute! ♥
My mom and I started walking again when we passed Star Tours, the Star Wars-themed 3D ride. To my great surprise, my mom suggested to try it! My mom is not particularly a Star Wars fan or a 3D fan, but since it was her idea I was eager to participate! I had done this ride with my dad as well during our very first trip and I had enjoyed it tremendously, so I hoped my mom would too.
Star Tours is not only a really cool ride, the waiting line is also amazing. They want to make it seem like you’re going on a journey with an airline from the Star Wars universe, so there are departure and arrival signs everywhere, suitcases and robots fixing things or messing things up. Then, when you finally arrive at the actual movie theatres, they are built like actual space ships! It’s really amazing!

Standing in line for Star Tours!
We received our 3D glasses, put on our seatbelts (I was the last one who got it fixed, whoops) and then the ride started. Whooaaa, was it cool! The concept of the story was tiny: our plane was about to leave when Darth Vader showed up, apparently looking for a criminal on board (hilarity ensued when a picture of a Japanese man I sadly don’t know appeared on the screen. I guess he was a politician or something), but of course the plane escaped and zoomed past all kinds of landscapes and planets. It was especially great, because the movements seemed so damn real! Plus, all the Japanese people around us squeaked and squealed with every movement! XD
I couldn’t tell at all whether my mom enjoyed it. The story was different from the ride my dad and I did and was much extremer than I remembered! But it turned out my mom absolutely loved it and it was one of the highlights of her day! We really should have done that ride again, haha! I actually read they recently updated the ride and created several storylines, so we could have gotten a different story! Oh well. ^^
We left the ride and decided to find ourselves a good seat for the first parade of our day. We were a bit early, but this gave us the opportunity to find a bench and to get some food. We soon found a nice spot with a view upon the Disneyland castle.

Waiting for the parade near the Disney castle.
I suggested I’d get some food while my mom did some people watching. During our previous Disneyland visit, my mom and I had eaten this delicious rice, meat and fries (?) at a restaurant and since you could also get takeaway, it was the most obvious choice of course. ^^ When I walked to the restaurant, I spotted a little stall. I went to check out what the lady sold and it turned out to be the adorable cups of edible Toy Story aliens! I had seen them on pictures many times and wanted to try them so badly, so I decided to get them on the way back. I stood in line at the restaurant, got us two meals and went back for the aliens. Luckily, the stall was still there and I got a cup. The kind lady helped me stack everything on top of each other and I went to find my mom, which didn’t take long luckily. An older man had joined our bench and there were quite a lot of people sitting on picnic blankets, but I managed to get through.

Doesn’t this food just look amazing!? *o*
We calmly ate our food (which was so good!) while waiting for the parade to start. I was very excited, since I had been looking forward to the parades a lot! This parade would be the ‘normal’ parade. Disneyland is always decorated in a theme, depending on the season, and has a special parade to go with it (in this case Halloween). There is also a parade with no particular theme, usually featuring as many Disney films as possible. When we went to Disney with the three of us, we wanted to see the Halloween parade, but accidentally sat down for the normal parade. Which turned out to be breath-taking! So I was eager to see what they did with this one. And I was not disappointed. :3
The parade featured dozens of big and minor characters and the cars were beautiful and super colourful. The dancers were jumpy and wonderful and the music was great! I really enjoyed myself and so did my mom. ^^ I will show you some pictures here, but you can see more in my video at the end of this post. Please take a look if you’re interested!

Some of the amazing parade cars that passed us by. ☆
Argh this parade was just too much fun, but cannot share all pictures I have with you! I hope you will enjoy these anyway. ^^ I especially loved Rapunzel, she was so beautiful! ♥

So many colours and so much amazingness!
The parade ended and while everyone was getting up, my mom and I tried to the little alien candies. All three of them turned out to have different fillings and were really squishy, I loved them! ^^
My mom and I got up and decided to just walk around for a bit. We spotted a cute stall selling popcorn when we suddenly realised they were selling… the bow boxes! When you buy popcorn, you can also always buy a cute box in the shape of a Disney figure in the theme of the season or some other fun shape. During our previous Disneyland visit, we had spotted one or two people wearing an adorable bow-shaped popcorn box, but we couldn’t find any stall selling them. And now we just walked right into them! You can probably guess what our first purchase of the day was! I even took a picture with the popcorn lady, haha!

The cute popcorn stall selling the bow-shaped boxes.
We continued our way, walked around the waffle restaurant we know quite well by now and returned to the square in front of the entrance, to see if we could spot some more Disney characters. We did see some, but instead I ended up taking a picture with another cute couple dressed head to toe as Donald Duck. They were quite happy that I asked for a picture with them. ♥

Cutest Donalds of the day!
My mom and I wanted to try and ride another attraction, so we decided on It’s a Small World. We walked all the way to the back of the park, passing the beautiful castle in all its glory.

Another picture of the castle, because… why not?
Luckily, as is common with It’s a Small World, the line was very reasonable and we sat down in a boat in no time. The ride was fun as usual, it’s so cute! ^^ I especially love the last ‘room’, where all the children of different countries sing together in sparkly white clothes.

It’s really impossible to overlook It’s a Small World’. ^^ It’s so colourful!
After the ride, we checked out a stall across from the ride where they had a lot of cute Disney ears and other items. We also checked out the Winnie the Pooh shop, which was cute and yellow as ever.
We wanted to try and see the Halloween parade as well, but since there was still time we walked into Toontown. It was quite crowded there, so we didn’t stay for long, but my mom and I did take a nice picture together in a Toontown tram.

Thank you to the kind person who took this picture for us! ♥
We went to find a good seat for the parade (I spotted a really cute girl wearing a Triple Fortune outfit already waiting). The benches were all full unfortunately, so we made ourselves comfortable on the ground.
My mom asked whether it was ok if she walked around for a bit until the parade would start. My mom enjoys all the dressed up people in Disneyland the most, so she asked some people whether she could take a picture of them. Almost everyone was ok with it and some kids immediately posed in the cutest ways! My mom was all happy when she returned.

Amazingly dressed kids and teens at Tokyo Disneyland!
Before the parade started, the Disney staff showed us a small dance that would be performed in the parade. It was only meant for your arms, so you could do it while sitting down. When my dad and I watched the Halloween parade back in 2011, they also taught us a special dance and the parade was really fun! Unfortunately, this parade couldn’t really please me. It was ok, but the cars weren’t that spectacular, nor were the costumes the Disney characters were wearing. Oh well, it was fun anyway. ^^

Some pictures of the Halloween parade.
After the parade, my mom and I decided it was time to go shopping! We were very close to the roofed shopping street near the park entrance, so we headed that way. The stores were a lot of fun, but were also very crowded. I did see a lot of nice things, too many to describe, but the cute macaron jewelry I had hoped to find again wasn’t in stores anymore. However, I did buy nice things that you can see at the end of this post. ^^

Some of the cute things I spotted in the stores we visited.
My mom however went wild, haha! She had really been looking forward to shopping at Disney and she really wanted to buy a cool Disney vest again. She ended up with two! She even persuaded me to buy a vest as well (although she didn’t need to try hard, since I found an adorable coloured Halloween vest that was on sale for half price, plus I was cold. XD)! My mom bought quite a lot of nice things, hehe.

Check out my mom’s purchases! She had a lot of fun shopping at Disneyland. ^^
Suddenly, I spotted a girl walking around in one of the shops, wearing the most amazing light up shell-shaped necklace! I thought it was so amazing, I gathered the courage and asked her where she got it. At first she almost looked scared, but then she got really helpful and told me she got it at the Mermaid Lagoon at Disney Sea. Disneyland and Disney Sea do have different merchandise, but I wanted to try and see whether I could find the necklace somewhere after all. I even went to ask at one of the shops and when the kind cashier ladies finally understood me, they even went through all the trouble of calling for me! Unfortunately, the necklaces were apparently sold out! I was honestly quite sad about it, but oh well. You can’t have everything. ^^
Our shopping was done and we entered the park again.

Happy selfie of my mom and I wearing our new vests (that you can barely see).
My mom and I had decided to not go see the Electrical Parade, since we both had seen it several times. The darkness had fallen, so we just roamed around the illuminated park. The castle looked so beautiful and all the trees had little lights in them. It was like a fairytale!

Disney is even better by night! ✧
When we walked past the Philharmagic attraction, I suggested to ride it again though! It’s really my favourite attraction in the whole park and there was no line! The waiting with our 3D glasses on for the show to begin took longer, haha!

Waiting for my favourite ride, Philharmagic, to start!
Ah, this 3D movie is just so great. I can’t stress it enough. Every time the Lion King part starts I get all emotional, I can’t explain it! The kid next to me didn’t enjoy it so much at first though. x)
We exited Philharmagic when I realised I wanted to see the Electrical Parade after all and my mom agreed, so we went to find a spot. It was quite difficult, since almost everything was full! But we managed. And the parade was so pretty! Apparently they did an update, making the blue fairy even prettier, the pegasuses ridden by knights were replaced by more beautiful models and they added a new car! Rapunzel’s flower-decorated tower with Rapunzel and Flynn passed us by and it was so beautiful… ;_; ♥ I am so happy we watched the parade after all. We barely took pictures this time, but here’s one anyway.

This picture might not be fantastic, but I love it anyway!
Since it had been my wish for several years to watch the fireworks as well, we waited for them to happen. It didn’t take long and I was so happy that after so many years, I could see them! I love fireworks.
There was actually another show a bit later, showing beautiful projections on the Disney castle, but since we wanted to try and avoid the crowd we decided to leave. It looked amazing even from afar though… Maybe one day!
My mom and I walked towards the exit and took some last pictures. Then we officially left the park.

Bye bye Disneyland! Thank you for a wonderful day! ♥
We briefly visited the shop near the exit, where I tried to find the light up necklace one last time (they didn’t have it) and bought an overpriced pencil (don’t ask).
We took the train back to Tokyo station and the subway back to Shinjuku station. When we arrived there, my mom and I realised we were quite hungry. We had been so busy, we hadn’t eaten in a long time! So we decided to have a quick meal at McDonald’s (where I noticed they had the cutest Sanrio Happy Meals, I totally should have ordered that, haha).

Our late night meal. My mom had… a bowl of corn somehow?
I had spotted a poster showing a huge soft ice cone for only 200 yen, so we decided to try it and see how big it really was. It was big alright. x)

This tasted so good! *o*
We returned to our hotel and went to bed. It had been an incredible day!

Purchases of the day
And to end this post with, here is the first video I made about our adventures in Tokyo (there are two parts)! I filmed a lot and tried to make the best videos I could about our trip. I hope you will like it! ♥
You can find day 12 from 6:42 until the end. Please take a look if you want! ♥


Thank you for reading! ~☆~

Tokyo ’15, Day 11 – Ikebukuro, Dream Dresses and the Milky Way Café

The next day we wanted to take things a bit easy, since we were planning to go to Disneyland on Wednesday, the day after. But of course, we had no rest whatsoever.br > We started our day by having breakfast. This time we did take some pictures, so feast your eyes on our glorious breakfasts of the most varying tings, including matcha-flavoured mini cakes!

I feel hungry just looking at this picture again…
After breakfast, we got our things together upstairs and left the hotel. We had a planning made up for our day, but we had plenty of time so we could take things easy. First we would go to the Disney store in Takashimaya to get our Disneyland tickets, then we would go to find the Bic Camera store and then we would go visit Ikebukuro.

My mom and I coincidentally matched that day. ^^
We went to get money and then went on our way to Takashimaya, which is right across from our hotel. We took the elevator up and soon arrived at the Disney store. We looked around for a bit (too many cute things again) and then went to ask for buying tickets. However, there seemed to be something wrong. Then one of the employees gave me a piece of paper, which explained in English that unfortunately this shop didn’t sell Disneyland tickets anymore. We should either go to Shibuya or Ikebukuro. Since we were going to Ikebukuro anyway, it was ok, but we were still a bit disappointed. Oh well.
On our way back, I spotted some amazing Japanese school bags (you know, the typical cute randoserus), but they were sooo expensive! I even spotted some in collaboration with Innocent World. So cute, so costly.
We then went on our next mission: finding my mom’s alarm clock. Now, I will need to explain a little bit in advance. When I first went to Japan in 2011 with my dad, my mom stayed back home and we skyped every night. I sent her hundreds of pictures, including of our hotel room. On one of those pictures was the hotel alarm clock and my mom somehow really loved it. We have stayed multiple times at this hotel and this alarm clock has always been there. To my mom, it has become a symbol of travelling, Japan and good memories, but of course she couldn't just take it with her. Last time, she asked a hotel employee whether she could buy one or if he knew where we could purchase one. Even though the staff member was kind and patient and gave us the series number of the alarm clock, obtaining it never happened. The evening before this day, my mom asked again whether one of the staff members knew whether we could purchase one and the man said we could buy one at the Bic Camera shop only a few blocks away! I forgot the kind man’s name, but we will surely remember him! ^^
We went on our way to the area right behind the orange clock, a place we had never been before. And whoa, what an adventurous place! Everywhere we looked they were colours and texts and advertisements. It was quite a sight.

Strolling around Shinjuku.
We soon found the Bic Camera, but they send us on to another shop: something like Bic Watch or something, haha! XD We entered the store, asked for the right floor and soon found ourselves surrounded by giant clocks and tons of alarm clocks. Everywhere you looked, there were clocks. It was quite incredible!
We went to ask for our specific clock and the kind staff girl helped us. Finally, after so long, my mom could hold her beloved clock in her hands. It may be difficult to understand, but she was really happy with it! And so was I. ^^

Finally my mom could buy her clock!
We looked around the floor for a bit (we especially drawn by some amazing and huge Disney clocks) and then went to pay. My mom was so happy, yay! ^^
I believe we returned the clock to our hotel and then went on our way to Ikebukuro. During our last time we also went to Ikebukuro, but we didn’t spend that much time there. Something had happened back home and we had promised to Skype with my brother, so we needed to be back on time. This time however, we had plenty of time! We went on our way to Shinjuku station and waited for our train to arrive.

Waiting for our train to Ikebukuro.
The train soon arrived and we sat down until we reached Ikebukuro. We walked through the never-ending station, bought some cute Cola bottles and finally arrived outside. I was determined not to get lost and this time we didn’t. ^^ I recognized some building and knew we were going the right way. We quickly entered a shop in hopes to find a present for a friend of my mom’s, but the shop was not interesting unfortunately. Outside, one of the shops had a huge camera coming out of the building. It was hard to miss!
soon we reached a familiar-looking crossing and I spotted the Milky Way Café, indicating we had arrived at the big shopping street we were looking for.

Entering Ikebukuro. Can you spot the Milky Way Café?
We entered the shopping street and headed toward the first shop we wanted to visit: the Sanrio Gift Gate (As if we hadn’t seen enough Sanrio yet, haha). But it was closed!? The blinds were down almost to the ground. It seemed there were people inside though, cleaning perhaps. Later I spotted people cleaning outside and asked whether they would open that day, but apparently they wouldn’t The next day would be fine. Shame, I really liked that shop..

My mom, near the closed Sanrio Gift Gate.
We walked on and looked around us wherever we could. There were so many colours and sounds everywhere!
We walked on and headed for Closet Child. By this time it should be open, unlike our last trip when we arrived too early and the shop hadn’t opened yet. I could see the familiar shop window above a Starbucks from afar.

Closet Child in Ikebukuro.
We took the tiny elevator up and entered the store… which had completely changed! During our former visits the shop was divided into a part for CDs on the left and Lolita clothing and dolls on the right. There were many racks and it was pretty neat, but sometimes hard to oversee everything. Also, the punk and gothic clothing kind of dominated the room. Now, the racks of clothing were placed vertically and parallel to the walls, the cash register desk was now next to the door and everything was really easy to oversee. In fact, there were separate racks for each brand and it was much easier to see where you could find what. It seemed Classic and Sweet Lolita dominated now, or it was just because they were more upfront in the store. Also, the had so much more clothing this time! They had a long rack of Angelic Pretty talking up a fourth of the store and another rack with Baby, the Stars Shine Bright clothes another fourth. The shop seemed much more classy, except for the horrible screamo music. x)

A small look into Ikebukuro’s Closet Child.
My mom and I started browsing together. There were so many Angelic Pretty dresses! I quickly spotted a familiar print: Crystal Dream Carnival! It was actually the exact cut and colour I had initially wanted, however I was far too happy with the version I had bought in Osaka! Plus, this dress had a strange colour, as if it had faded in the wash. Such a waste…
What happened next is something I cannot really describe. I was very tired at this point, so maybe that played a part. Anyway, I found two dresses that had been on my wishlist for a very long time! The halterneck jumperskirt of Memorial Cake and the red jumperskirt of Rose Toilette! But somehow, I was not as wowed as I hoped to be. I also found two pretty Baby, the Stars Shine Bright dresses and went to try everything on.

Ready to try on some dresses! ♥
Then another strange things happened: I tried Memorial Cake on, a dress I had been looking for for years… and I hated it. Despite the dress being black, which is usually a good colour for me, I looked like a balloon! The dress didn’t look good on me whatsoever, it was terrible! And the even stranger thing was: I didn’t feel very upset about it? I thought it was a shame, yes. But I wasn’t feeling down because of it, while normally I would. Maybe I was too tired and my emotions were levelled down.
After that, I tried Rose Toilette. Unfortunately, sometimes older Angelic Pretty dressed don’t fit me and here it was that case as well. Even though the dress was so gorgeous, again I didn’t care that much. I was getting too hot and was too tired I guess. Actually now, months after, I am more upset about it! XD Oh well, one day Rose Toilette, one day…
The Baby dresses weren’t my thing after all and my mom and I ended up getting some accessories. ^^
We left Closet Child and went on our way to Sunshine City. We had wanetd to check out this mall during our previous trip but ended up not having enough time. So this was our chance!
We found the right entrance (there was some construction going on) and then went to find the Disney store, while entering shops we liked on the way. Like the Sanrio Vivitix shop (to make up for the closed Sanrio Gift Gate, haha).

The Sanrio Vivitix shop in Sunshine City.
Once again there were too many cute items. Many corners were filled with pink and pastel-coloured items of Hello Kitty, My Melody and the Little Twin Stars. Maybe that’s why the Gudetama corner with all its yellow was so refreshing. Ah, did I even mention Gudetama before? I can’t remember… Well anyway, Gudetama is a Sanrio character. It’s a yellow egg with a very prominent butt and he is always lazy and depressed (he is my spirit animal). I really love this character, but somehow I ended up buying nothing Gudetama! Boo me.

My mom checking out some Gudetama items.
We then proceeded to the Disney store, which was right around the corner. It was quite a pretty store, with a dark blue glittery floor and a yellow path leading through it. Quite a nice store.

The Disney store at Sunshine City.
Something that wasn’t so nice however was the line to buy Disneyland tickets! You needed to get a ticket with a number and when it was your turn to officially stand in line your number was called! And our number wasn’t quite up anytime soon. By the time, my mom and I were in a real dip of energy, so I lead my mom out of the store and told her to sit down next to the entrance. I didn’t care whatsoever that this is usually not allowed in Japan, but my mom was too tired and her knees hurt too much to keep up appearances. ‘If someone comes to tell you off, just cry!’ I said. XD Meanwhile, I made sure to stay close to the line so I would be there when my number was called.
Finally, after what seemed ages, it was my turn. I received a form where I had to fill in the tickets I wanted and for which date. It was quite neat actually. I paid for my tickets and left the line again. Writing this makes it sound so easy! While it actually took sooo long…
My mom had rested for a bit and we went on our way to find the Swimmer store. Can you tell there are a few specific stores we really like? ^^’ I checked the map I had taken when we entered the mall and suddenly we passed an Axes Femme. It was really big and nice and there were even a few Lolitas shopping there, but once again the shop disappointed me for some reason and we didn’t stay that long. Soon after we found the Swimmer, again a small shop filled to the brim with tiny cute thingies.
I found a really cute see-through jewelry box that I instantly fell in love with, a cute bracelet and hair pin set and a pony ring while my mom found two cute mirrors and a cheap biscuit bag. Too many cute things, damn you Swimmer! >0<

Shopping at Swimmer never ceases to make me happy. ♥
My mom and I were super tired at this point, so we decided to drag ourselves to the Milky Way Café and have dinner plus dessert there. We walked all the way back through Sunshine City, passing several lovely shops and left the building. We walked back to the street towards the café. I saw a lot of cool posters on the building, including one from Love Live! (I tried playing this game but my phone can’t handle it). My mom and I were very pleased to see people handing out packages of tissues with advertisements on them. We loved this during our previous trips and eagerly took some (ahem, we may even have passed one person twice to get an extra package *shame*). We also spotted a maid with a sign, promoting her maid café. She looked very cute!

This part of Ikebukuro is so lively!
We finally reached the Milky Way Café and walked up the stairs. In case you don’t know about this café: everything in the Milky Way Café is star-themed or star-shaped. They have ice cream coupes based on constellations, star-shaped plates, even the bases of their tables are shaped like stars! I like it very much there.

The entrance to the Milky Way Café. ☆
We were seated at a table next to one of the big windows, which gave us a nice view over the crossing down at the street. The café looked as cute as I remembered and our waiter was also very cute. :3 Before we were given a menu, I just looked around the café. It’s such a nice place. ♥ Even the salt and pepper dispensers were star-shaped, aaah!

The Milky Way Café seen from our table.
The Milky Way café is mainly famous for its ice cream, but since we wanted to have dinner my mom and I both chose a plate of fries. Our waiter tried to tell us something about the choice of sauces, but we didn’t understand him and ended up just asking for mayonnaise. Soon, our food arrived and beside the fact it looked really cute with the star-shaped plate, the fries were also really tasty!

Milky Way Café dinner. ☆
It was getting dark once we started looking for a dessert. We wanted to try different ice cream coupes than last time, but we didn’t feel obliged to choose the ones matching our own constellations. So I chose one that had a lot of red and pink in it, so probably something fruity, while my mom chose a coupe in more Japanese style.
Of course, you don’t need to know Japanese in order to understand the little drawings next to the pictures of the desserts to find which constellations they match, however we had some trouble finding which was which. So while waiting for our desserts, we tried to find out which was which. I believe we continued to discuss about it until we went to sleep! x)
Finally, our ice cream came and of course pictures needed to be taken first!

My ice cream on the left, my mom’s on the right. ♥
Everything tasted so good~! What a great dinner. While we eating, I said to my mom how much I loved the watch I had bought at Swimmer. I liked it so much I felt the giant urge to give it to a friend of mine too. So my mom said I should do it and we finally agreed to go back to the Swimmer shop in Sunshine City to get one. I don’t think my mom realised how tired she was or she just didn’t tell me.
I went to the toilet (just to see what it looked like, haha), we paid for our food and then went back to the mall. I bought the watch and a cute little hair clip I had missed during a couple of hours before.
We walked back through Sunshine City when I asked my mom if she was ok with visiting one more shop. My eye had caught this super cute floral skirt at a shop called ‘Lodispotto’ and I was eager to see what more they sold.

The shop that had caught my eye: Lodispotto.
The shop turned out to have super cute skirts and cardigans, very much my style! I did spot, however, that most items were ‘free size’ or ‘one size’, which doesn’t necessarily means everyone fits them… XD I was looking at a skirt when a shop girl walked up to me and said ‘One size!’ I am not quite sure what she was trying to say, but I am guessing she was referring to the piece of clothing as being too small for me. Or rather, me being too big for it. Usually I would be pissed off about this (I wasn’t even planning on buying it?), but now I shrugged it off. Weirdo. XD Anyway, I kept on looking and discovered the most beautiful skirt! It was made of the softest, off-white tulle and there were beautiful rhinestones sewn onto it. So fairy-like! Actually, we discovered another skirt my mom and I really liked! It was also made of tulle, but a bit more casual and covered in little white hearts.
Both were so cute!
I wasn’t planning to try them on when another shop girl came up to us. Her name was Yuko and she happened to speak pretty good English. She showed us the skirts were quite stretchy and said I should definitely try them on! ‘Eh why not?’ I thought. I shouldn’t have done that. XD Because completely unexpected, both skirts fit very well and looked super cute! ♥ ‘Aaah, like a fairy!’ said Yuko. (Not helping, haha) Aaah, it was instant love… I wanted them! Unfortunately, I am a terrible chooser and the skirts were not very cheap, but my mom offered me one as a present! ;_; Isn’t that just super sweet?
We went to pay and noticed you could get a 10% discount if you bought more than a certain amount if you showed your passport. We gave the poor shop girls quite a lot of work! x)
Finally, the shop girls were done and Yuko handed us our bag. We had talked a lot while I was trying on and she was just so sweet! Apparently she was half Japanese and half French and she asked us about our trip etc. ♥ Suddenly, she spotted the Misako Aoki badge I had pinned to my bag. Yuko turned out to be a Lolita too! She wears mostly Baby, the Stars Shine Bright, but likes Angelic Pretty too. I showed her a picture of my Angelic Pretty Tea Party outfit and she said she owned Milky Berry too (if I understood correctly)! Isn’t that amazing? For a moment, poor Yuko misunderstood something we said and thought for a moment my mom was a Lolita too, haha!
We left the store and Yuko waved us goodbye. Ah Yuko, thank you so much for the great experience. ;_; I will never forget you. ♥
Finally, it was really time to go back to Shinjuku now. We were pretty much dead. Near the station, we bought some drinks from a vending machine. I mean, they had my dear milk tea, how could I ignore it?

Vending machines are just the greatest…
We took the train back to Shinjuku, dragged ourselves to our hotel and rested for the rest of the evening. Our plans of taking things easy hadn’t really worked out, so we needed it. I took some purchase pictures and then we went to sleep. It had been a very nice day.

Purchases of the day
And to end this post with, here is the first video I made about our adventures in Tokyo (there are two parts)! I filmed a lot and tried to make the best videos I could about our trip. I hope you will like it! ♥
You can find day 11 from 5:08 until 6:41. Please take a look if you want! ♥


Thank you for reading! ~☆~