Trip Mengejar Sakura - Day 2 - Meiji Jingu, Yoyogi Park

Day 2 - 7 April 2014

Hari kedua ni konon2 nak kluar bilik awal, sudahnye around 9.30am jugak kot kitorang kluar lepas breakfast sesiap kat bilik ... penat berjalan semalam tak ilang lagik sebenarnye ...

First stop untuk harini adelah Yoyogi Park di Harajuku ... our direction from Asakusa is as follows :

ASAKUSA(Tokyo Metro Ginza Line) --> OMOTE-SANDO (Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line) --> MEIJI-JINGUMAE = 230 yen.
Take exit 3 and walk to Harajuku Station - look for the big interchange with blue overhead pedestrian bridge.

Sebenarnye Harajuku station is the closest station to Yoyogi Park but it is only served by JR train ... since metro train yg paling dekat and senang nak naik dari hostel kitorang tu, so we opted for the metro instead and brenti kat Meiji-Jingumae station... dari exit metro tu menapak sket je utk ke Yoyogi Park ... again, whatever train routes u wanna take, sila refer to Hyperdia.com ... kat situ macam2 route bleh amik .. nak yg cepat, nak yg mahal, yg murah semua bleh pilih... bagi aku yg bajet kurang, aku akan carik the cheapest route

Mase tengah transfer train kat Omotesando, tetiba nampak Odakyu Romance Car yg pegi Hakone berenti ... wahh nampak sangat best ... mampu tengok jer la sebab kitorang mmg takde plan nak pegi Hakone

Harajuku Station

Dari depan Harujuku station tu, kitorang menapak sket ke kanan , nanti jumpe satu bridge kecik .. cross the bridge then cross satu jalan ... then akan nampak satu tori besar belah kanan ... itulah entrance utk masuk ke Yoyogi Park ... tak silap aku ade few entrance nak masuk situ ...yg aku masuk ni akan tembus ke Meiji Shrine dulu ...

Park ni pun boleh tahan besar sebenarnye ... kat dlm tu ade Meiji Shrine ... mmg sakan kitorang berjalan kat dalam tu

It was a long walk .. sayup2 nampak org kat depan sane

Barrels of sake

Yg ni wine rasenye

Tori ni sangat tinggi

Entrance to the shrine

Ornaments and charms sold outside the shrine ... managed to snap few photos before they told us to stop taking pictures ... huhuh tak pasal2 kene marah

I like the two not-so-identical trees on both sides of the shrine ... the security yg jaga here are so stricts .. no aksi2 pelik time tangkap gambar okeh.... this is a sacred place so please behave 

No photo taking allowed once u reach the top most staircase ... diorang ni semua nak pi berdoa ... tourist sila jgn menyebok 

Kluar dari shrine tu, kitorang proceed to the park ... harapan utk tengok sakura kat yoyogi park berkecai bile tengok semua pokok sudah gondol ... tinggal beberape pokok je yg masih ade saki baki bunge

Tempat tu nampak best so kitorang stop kat situ kejap sesambil makan roti ngan air wat alas perut sebab dah lapar yg amat ...

Lepas abis pusing kat dalam tu, kitorang kluar balik ke Harajuku station and menapak ke Takeshita-Dori for people watching :)