From Gotemba Premium Outlet, we moved on to experience a short bullet ride to Nagoya. As it was a 2 hours ride, the sightseeing bus stopped halfway at a rest station for us to go washroom and buy some things at a convenience store.
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| Stopped halfway at a rest station. |
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I bought a new drink for the 3rd time. This time, it was salt and lime drink. I don't know why I buy that but I like to drink lemon or lime.
We leave the rest station and continued moving on to the bullet train station. After an hour, we arrived at Mikawa-Anjo station, a station away from Nagoya station.
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| Mikawa-Anjo Station |
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| Interior of Mikawa-Anjo Station |
Our tour guide bought the bullet train tickets for us. While we were waiting for her, I looked around to see the station and the ticket prices.
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| Bullet train ride ticket prices for each station. |
According to the East Japan Railway Company website (http://www.jreast.co.jp/e/index.html), the bullet train that we took is Tokaido Shinkansen (Hikari and Kodama trains). Since we took the bullet train, the price that we paid from Mikawa-Anjo station to Nagoya station was 2,720 yen (Basic fare of 470 yen plus super express ticket fare of 2,250 yen). Quite expensive to ride a bullet train.
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| The ticket before (above) and after (below) entering the gantry. |
It was our own responsibility to take care of the ticket without losing it because if you lose it, the train officer will take it that you are traveling from Tokyo to Nagoya. Instead of 2,270 yen train fare, it will cost you 10,880 yen!
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| Our bullet train has arrived! |
There are 4 railway tracks at Mikawa-Anjo station. The 2nd and 3rd tracks do not stop at every station while the platform stations stop.
Although the bullet train ride was a short one, it was very fast (at 366km/h) and reached Nagoya station in less than 20 minutes.
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| Arrived at Nagoya station. |
We had our dinner at Nagoya station and the tour guide took us to the ramen street. The ramen street is similar to Ramen Champion in Singapore, featuring the ramen stalls from different parts of Japan. We went to the furthest one and tasted Asahikawa ramen.
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| A bowl of salt-flavored ramen with an egg as a top-up. |
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| Lava egg! |
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After dinner, we went to stay at another hotel named Nagoya Kanko Hotel.
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| Nagoyo Kanko Hotel |
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| Twin room for me and my younger brother |
At Nagoya Kanko Hotel, you can wear the pyjamas provided by the hotel. It saved the hassle of bringing out my pyjamas from the luggage and placed it back in the morning.
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| Pyjamas provided by the hotel |
My normal routine inside the hotel was to switch on the TV to see if there were something nice to watch. Interestingly, there was a live soccer match going on between Japan vs Singapore. They were playing for 2018 World Cup Qualifiers match. Previously, Singapore beat Cambodia 4-0 on 11 June match (Also the day where Singapore U-23 got eliminated in the 1st round of the SEA Games soccer match). We only watched the 2nd half of the match and the score was 0 - 0. It was normal to see Japan kept attacking to score a goal but Singapore goalkeeper saved many times. Although Singapore only attacked less than 5 times, they played very well as they did not let Japan score a goal. Before the match, many Japanese fans posted comments stating that Japan would win the match, 10-0 or 6-0. After the match, it left many Japanese fans surprised and angry. Well, will we see Singapore footballers in 2018 World Cup? It's still too early to say but currently Singapore is still on top of the Group G table with 4 points.
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| Some screenshots of Japan vs Singapore soccer match. |
I went out with my parents to walk around and bought Ippudo ramen bowl at a nearby convenience store.
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| Street view of Nagoya |
That's the end of Day 3 in Central Japan.
To be continued for Day 4.
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