Woot, Day 3. ↑Slippers from our apartment. Look like bananas, yes?
Couple of destinations for day 3. To prep ourselves for the long day, we swung by a French bakery for breakfast. // Sorry guys, we didn’t pay too much attention to our meals for the trip. And yet, any restaurant around the area tasted like heaven. Perhaps I was a little biased by the fact that it was my first time visiting Japan, but DYAM, those were good breakfast!
↑Fresh baked goods and strawberry milk from a vending machine.
First stop – Bandai Museum. The trip, which requires 2.5 hours of multiple transfers and long train rides, was made possible by the efficient transportation in Japan. Can’t stress more on how convenient the system is. 
Rule number 1 for their transportation: Absolutely NO talking on the phone; stick with texting emailing. ( I heard they email via their phones instead of text, it’s cheaper.)
Japanese people, or at least the ones we’ve met, are astonishingly friendly. If you needed direction, it’s not unusual to see one leave off whatever he/she’s doing to actually walk you towards the right way. 
I’ve read that Bandai Museum’s recently moved to the suburbs. 
There it was! Finally arrived. 
Entry fee was (1000 yen)
1:1 OG. 
There was Bandai’s past toy collection. 
↑There were dozens of those cases FILLED with their old toys.
Bandai’s collection was glorious, I’ll just let the pictures do the talking..
↑The first titanium Z. (I think)
↑Even the western toys.
Yup, Bandai’s big.
↑ I love those. I was just talking to Jim, who’s also a big Gundam model fan, about building models. He prefer his to look original and clean, while I like to add battle wounds and aged look to mine. Having to build a custom like above carries the essence of customization, which is, to me, making it one of a kind while adding that personal touch and story with it.
↑How many of those have you seen? It’s a mass collection of POWER RANGERS!
Within the museum, there’s a section dedicated to Edison. 
Cool museum, but I actually would NOT recommend this place if you live too far from it (like us).
It’s a really small museum – it only took us 45minutes to browse through the entire place. They even removed the Gundam theme restaurant that they had and the Gundam collection shop. Joey, Jim, and I were all really disappointed. 5 hours of transportation (back and forth) plus around 4000 yen worth of fare, it just wasn’t worth it. But of course, like bad movies, sometimes it really doesn’t how many people tell you not to watch it, you just gotta check it out yourself.
On our way back. 
↑ Because of the train ride, we skipped lunch. Jim was so hungry, he ate the bread that was given by a stranger. “Mama say don’t eat stuff given by strangers..” laughs Jim, while stuffing his face.
Then, Jim got a heat stroke. 
WORST case to have on a trip, it’d keep you in bed and make you lose appetite. Good thing Jim’s heat stroke was gone in a few hours after replenishing with sport’s drinks.
Stranger’s bread wasn’t enough! we ordered Train bento. 
Since going to Bandai Museum took most of the day, we chose our last stop to be Akihabara. Electronic stores and PLENTY of anime stores. 
There were so many of the doll catching machines. They call em’ UFO, I call em’ money sucking devices. 
↑ Cody’s got one!
Jim did, too!
AND SOME!!!
↑Disclaimer, Jim’s not a perv. He was just on fire.
Girls having a anime theme song concert. I think. They were dancing like the ninja game from “Scott Pilgram vesus the world.”
Till next time.
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