Tokyo Personal Diary | Day 5 : Sumida Koen And Malaysia, I Miss You.

Hey guys!

The last time I remember I stopped telling you guys about my Japan trip at day 4, lmao yeah I know, I am just really that lazy to render some new posts now, but I guess I need to finish where it started.

And so finally, on the last day of 5 days for my last trip to Japan last time, my Japanese friend Atsushi-san brought me around Sumida Koen before sending me off to Haneda Airport. It was still as memorable as ever, I still feel grateful to have had made it to Japan (Tokyo) alone all by myself. So I guess it's fine rendering this post back since I left it like halfway not touching my blog at all for months, if you dare to call me lame get out! hahahaha (every trip is worth to pen down even later okay).

DAY 5

In front of Sumida Gawa (Sumida River) alongside narrow Sumida Koen park

SUMIDA KOEN

So I have been to Asakusa for like twice in a row, day before and the last day of my days in Tokyo. It was Atsushi-san's idea because he said there's a matsuri going on so I probably wanna see more since Asakusa is known as the place that harbors different sort of festivals each year. (Asakusa is called a king of festivals). Sumida Koen park is just few minutes walk from the Asakusa station, towards east-west direction, it's really easily accessible because you just have to walk alongside the Sumida Gawa up north which we did not managed to do yesterday due to checking out only Senso-ji and the other vicinity spots (pool of humans is the thing that makes places hopping in a day difficult, including limited time). Thus we both planned to check this one place out before I left. Atsushi-san was very very warm and kind, besides providing me with free translation for the whole time, he also tirelessly showed me direction like a walking compass, so blessed to have met him as a tourist!

Interesting info is, taking place anually on the third weekend in May, and centered on Asakusa, the Sanja Matsuri is Tokyo's biggest festival, attracting up to 2 million spectators. The climax comes on the second day, when over one hundred mikoshi (portable shrines) are paraded through the seething crowds, among them the three mikoshi of Asakusa-jinja, each weighing around 1000kg and carried by at least seventy men.

There are numerous festivals here throughout the year, including the Samba Carnival at the end of August, East of the Amuse Museum, alongside narrow Sumida Koen (隅田公園) park, the river provides the stage for one of the city's great summer firework displays (hanabi taikai), held on the last Saturday in July.

By the way, this is not Sanja Matsuri because I remember well during that time it was like the first week of May, it was another Matsuri but I forgot what it is. Sorry I have a goldfish memory lol

Standing by the side of Sumida Gawa, in the Sumida Koen park, it was so chilly and breezy

Saw a dock with few boats tied up at a wharf

The Sumida River (隅田川 ; Sumida-gawa) is a river that flows through Tokyo, Japan. It branches from the Arakawa River at Iwabuchi and flows into Tokyo Bay. Its tributaries include the Kanda and Shakujii rivers. What is now known as the "Sumida River" was previously the path of the Ara-kawa. However, towards the end of the Meiji era work was carried out to divert the main flow of the Ara-kawa to prevent flooding.

It passes through the following wards of Tokyo:

Kita, Adachi, Arakawa, Sumida, Taito, Koto and Chuo

The calm and chilly weather of that day is still vivid and lucid, so heartbreaking to realise that I will be leaving so soon

Almost a week in Tokyo and I do miss Malaysia, at the same time I didn't wanna leave lol

A group of beautiful teens in Yukata for the matsuri in front of Sumida Gawa

I really really have forgotten on what subway did I ride towards the Haneda coz Atsushi-san was the one who offered to help from getting my ticket to riding on board and he came together to bid goodbye, so I was just kinda blessed and just followed until it reached Haneda but I remember the trip took quite some time compared to when I was going to the rest of the tourist spots in Tokyo.

Cool thing Haneda was not crowded during that time

Took this photo coz I was super in love with my shoes lol

My last unused yen note, I still keep this one.

Second floor of Haneda Airport

I really don't remember much to tell, but do correct me if I'm wrong, I remember Haneda has 2 floors, there's 7-Eleven on the first floor and some other shops for souvenirs, and on the second floor there's eateries for you to fill up quickly before leaving.

I dropped by at the souvenir shop on the first floor to buy some Japan's must have, which is one of them was Tokyo banana. They're a packed dessert shaped like bananas, and filled with some yummy fillings like custard and etc, they're mostly famous for their apperance coz I also think that they're cute to buy and tasty too lol.

Super cute version of Tokyo Bananas

Before I left, Atsushi-san brought me on the second level to show me this open air place where you can watch the planes taking off and landing, there was a shop there selling hot coffees too for the people to enjoy it while observing the view around, the view was so amazing I could not just hold my tears and teared up a lil bit, we had some deep talk about life and things and I think one of the greatest blessings in life is to be able to travel and not to show off about it, but to learn about people and culture, first of all I ended up here to see my ex but we broke up, so I went all alone by the way and I could not have survived it without crossing paths with these beautiful and kind-hearted people who lent me their time to help me making my days here better, thank you from the bottom of my heart for spending so much time to accompany me although you guys got nothing in return. I hope we all will cross path again someday xoxo!

Last breath and view in Haneda before I took off

We hugged and bid goodbye to each other and this is it, my last post for my Tokyo Personal Diary, I really hope I will come back again someday, or soon idk, coz for now I just graduated, still hard at landing on a decent job (I mostly just got interviews from the companies that I am not interested in so it's a bit hard). Thank you for reading my post, although it is due for so long, I love you guys <3!

Feel free to click the links below to read for the other days too.

Tokyo Personal Diary | Day 1 : Arrival, Ueno Koen & Ameyokocho Local Market
Tokyo Personal Diary | Day 2 : Kanda Myojin & Yushima Seido In Akihabara & Night In Nishiarai
Tokyo Personal Diary | Day 3 : Visiting NALU Hair Salon (Number 76) In Omotesando, Harajuku, Shibuya & Tokyo Tower
Tokyo Personal Diary | Day 4 : Exploring Asakusa, Senso-ji & Tokyo Skytree 

Oh and I also made a quick video compiling everything I experienced on this short trip here in a brief. Do check it out too!

Talk to you guys again on my next post!

-Pinku-

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