Sarapan di Tsukiji Fish Market

Sebagai kota pelabuhan, ga heran kalau Tokyo memiliki pasar ikan dan seafood terbesar di dunia bernama Tsukiji Fish Market. Kalau di Jakarta mungkin semacam Pelabuhan Sunda Kelapa ya. Tidak hanya hasil tangkapan dari perairan Jepang, tangkapan dari nelayan Jepang di seluruh dunia pun mampir ke pasar ikan ini untuk dijual dengan total sekitar 700.000 ton persegi seafood dalam setahun! [1] Kok bisa sih segitu banyaknya? Ya karena terkait dengan pola konsumsi orang Jepang yang emang doyan makan ikan. Awalnya sih mereka makan ikan bukan cuma karena doyan, tapi emang sempat ada pelarangan makan daging selama beberapa abad di Era Kofun [2]. Selain untuk konsumsi, ikan juga menjadi salah satu bahan persembahan bagi dewa di kuil-kuil. Jadi wajar kan kalau Jepang punya pasar ikan terbesar di dunia. Untuk kualitas jangan ditanya, karena orang Jepang sering makan dalam bentuk mentah, maka hanya kualitas terbaik dan paling segar yang dijual di sini.

Peta Tsukiji Fish Market

Peta Tsukiji Fish Market

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Filming Location: Boulangerie Sudo

 

Tourists may not be familiar with the name of this place. We also didn’t know anything about it until we saw one of Himitsu no Arashi-chan episodes (TBS, aired 2011.04.28). Nino and Leader took the guest, Horikita Maki, to one bread shop in Setagaya.

Nino, Leader and Horikita Maki in front of Boulangerie Sudo

Nino, Leader Ohno, and Horikita Maki in front of Boulangerie Sudo

For the sake of variety show, they had a quiz where they guessed the price of the served breads. Nino won the first question so he was able to eat the first bread, one of the most popular ones. And his reaction upon eating it has led us to this bread shop.

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Berburu Oleh-oleh di Sunamachi Ginza Shopping Street

Sering kali saat kita pelesir ke luar negeri, ada saja teman atau saudara yang minta dicarikan suatu barang. Kami juga sempat dititipin beli sesuatu, salah satunya Yukata untuk anak kecil. Kalau nitip beli sambil dikasih tau tempat belinya sih ga masalah, nah ini nitip tanpa ngasih tau belinya di mana kan kami juga puyeng nyarinya.

Itinerary kami sudah sangat padat hingga pencarian barang cuma bisa kalau pas kebetulan lewat pusat pertokoan saja. Untung saja Sunamachi Ginza Shopping Street sudah masuk ke itinerary kami sejak awal, karena 90% barang titipan bisa kami temukan di sana. Menyambung postingan tentang tempat beli oleh-oleh murah di Jepang, kali ini kami akan bagi-bagi pengalaman berburu oleh-oleh di Sunamachi Ginza Shopping Street.

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Filming Location: Yume no Ohashi

To be honest, we found this filming location by chance. We just left Mizuno Hiroba Park and heading to Fuji TV when I realized the bridge we crossed on looks familiar. Then it hit me, this must be filming location for Anna-san no Omame when Riri and Kyutaro switched their body. And boy I was right! The scene was memorable and I love that particular episode so much. FYI, I’m fan of Becky. She is entertainment genius! The fact that she is fans of SMAP adds billion extra points.

Scene from Anna-san no Omame episode 6 which taken place on Yume no Ohashi

Scene from Anna-san no Omame episode 6 which taken place on Yume no Ohashi

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Filming Location: Atago Shrine

Have you ever seen this beautiful and serene shrine as shown on picture below on your favorite dorama?

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This particular stair appear on Yamada Taro Monogatari (starring: Arashi’s Ninomiya and Sakurai), My Boss My Hero (starring: TOKIO’s Nagase, ex-KATTUN’s Tanaka, and NEWS’s Tegoshi), and Nobuta wo Produce (starring: Yamashita Tomohisa, KATTUN’s Kamenashi, Hey!Say!JUMP’s Nakajima). Even though only for a few seconds, but the stair was memorable. In fact, it dubbed as Tokyo’s stairway to Heaven.  Continue reading

Filming Location: Ending Scene of Shinigami-kun Dorama

Yeah! Starting this month, we have special posts about filming locations. Didn’t we tell you that we are very dedicated Arashi’s fangirls? We tried our best to search, find, visit, and reenact the scenes of Arashi’s doramas/movies/shows. In addition to our 5-rainbow-colored boys, we also have our ultimate bias, Ikuta Toma, and other JE units/talents and Japanese idols. We are bringing them here for you!

Wait, for those who are not Japanese idols’ fans, you can still enjoy our posts because the places are surprisingly interesting! They are not popular among tourists, so limited info and reviews are available there. By reading our posts, we hope you find useful information about those hidden gems in Japan 😉

Let’s start with a dorama called Shinigami-kun. If you’re an Arashi’s fan or a J-dorama freak, you must be familiar with it. TV Asahi aired it on April-June last year. Among the 9 episodes it has, we found that the last one captured the most memorable scene. Yes, the ending scene! (don’t worry, this is not a spoiler)

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Nagoya Mosque

Being muslims simply does not hinder us to travel around the world. We admit that, sometimes, there is a worry on how and where we could perform our prayers. But nowadays, information regarding mosques or islamic communities is now available in most of tourist-destination countries, including Japan. This info was then used to prepare our trip.

We had a whole day in Nagoya, it was thus a must to pay a visit to one of its mosques. In Nagoya alone, there are at least 2 mosques listed on the internet. The one that we went to is about 20-minute away from Nagoya Station.

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Nagoya Station – Nagoya Mosque

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