Adventure to the land of the rising sun, Japan - Part 2

So this is part 2 of my adventure in Japan for 2 weeks, if you want to read part 1 you can here.

These are a few other places that I recommend if you are visiting Tokyo.

Ikebukuro, one of the districts in Tokyo it offers plenty of entertainment and shopping. One place we visited was the Sanrio Gift Gate store which I happened to spot just passing by in the street. Being a kawaii (cute) fan I had to take a look. If you love kawaii things, and Hello Kitty then you will love this store, it offers lots of cute accessories featuring Hello Kitty & other Sanrio characters, it is only a short walk from the station so be sure to stop off here.

Another cool place we visited in Ikebukuro was a cat cafe. This is a cafe that has different breeds of cats in it. So if you are a big cat fan, like me and want to go for a cup of tea or drink this is the place to go.

It was on the 5th floor of a building but is pretty big inside so the cats have lots of space to run about. You pay for a 1 hour visit and you can buy a drink such as tea, or a soft drink, have a rest and play with the cats, though most of them were sleeping when we were visiting. This probably depends on the time of day you make your visit. They are such lovely cats. There was about 18 cats. This isn't far away from the Pokemon Centre which was the next place we visited.

Also in this building there is a really cool girls gamer store, if you are a girl and you are into anime style games it's worth a visit I really enjoyed browsing the games and merchandise.

Some of the cute cats in the Cat cafe.

Girls Gamer Store, lots of merchandise for anime fans.

The Pokemon Centre in the Sunshine centre, which is a big shopping mall. If you are a Pokemon fan you have to visit this store when you come to Tokyo, it's a Pokemon fans dream. I used to be a big Pokemon fan back in the day, so I thought it would be a cool place to go visit while in Ikebukuro. I bought myself some stationary and a Pikachu Plush, it was such a cute Pikachu. Any Pokemon fan will love this store.

Animate, There is many of these scattered about all over Tokyo, I must have gone in a few. This one just over the road from the Pokemon centre. As I said in Part 1 I spent quite a bit in these shops. Great place for Anime fans! You have to visit these.

Animate just across from the Pokemon Centre

Another district to visit is Shinjuku, if you love looking at sky scrappers you should take a visit to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, where you can go up to Observation decks for free and see an outstanding view of Tokyo, it's really stunning to see. I highly recommend this, we went up in the evening when all the buildings were lit up. It was amazing, you can see the Tokyo Tower in the distance.

We also visited the Robot restaurant, which is a big tourist attraction. Pretty odd but we went for the experience and enjoyed it. So you get to watch battling robots and people putting on a show for you it's a bit like a RPG story, it's very brightly coloured. The show lasts approx 90 mins, and you can buy tickets on the website, it costs 8,000 yen per person, you can also buy drinks and food in there too.

Shinjuki has many shops and resturants, lots being anime stores, which I loved looking around. One building has a Godzilla on top of it. So thats the end of part 2. Thanks for reading and there will be more soon!

Can you see Godzilla?

Streets of Shinjiku

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Return to Italy - Rome, Naples, and Sorrento Part 2

Hello everyone, welcome back to part 2 of this adventure in Italy. If you missed part 1 you can read it here. So we left Rome and went down to a place called Lucrino, which is round near Naples. The area around here isn't very clean. The train stations are really dirty covered in graffiti.

Local trainline

However the hotel here was lovely it was called, Villa Luisa. It had a beauty treatment room which had a small pool area, sauna, spa, and steam room. You could also help yourself to tea. I really enjoyed this we spent each night in there, just relaxing after long day of walking about places. We also had a lovely breakfast at this hotel, the room was also very nice, double bed plus a single bed, with a little balcony. I think this was the best place we stayed in out of the 3. I would give it a 5* rating.

Villa Luisa

Breakfast Buffet

Beautyroom

The first evening here we went in a pizza restaurant, lovely food as always. I really enjoy Italian food (we had Pizza again). Very nice restaurant, there wasn't a lot of places around near our hotel to eat. This one was just round the corner.

Next day we went and visited Solfatara, this is a shallow volcanic crater at Pozzuoli, which is not too far up the train line from where we was staying. This is part of the Campi Flegrei volcanic area. This is the first place where I got to see not only 2 cats, but about 10. I had never seen so many cats together before it was so cool.

 

Solfatara was very interesting place for people who are interested in volcano's it's a nice place to visit, it didn't cost too much either. The area is very dry and rocky and there is places on the ground where steam with sulphurous fumes come out, the steam is pretty hot. It doesn't take long to walk around here, though we didn't stay too long since it was raining and we got pretty wet.

 

After going back to the hotel we then went for a walk to a lake which I believe was Lago di Averno just to have a look around, it was pretty big lake there wasn't much life around there saw a few geese and coots that was about it. It was a nice walk though. This was about 20 mins walk from the train station. Didn't manage to walk all around as it was getting late, I did how ever manage to get some nice photos though.

Other places we visited while here were an American diner & bar which we had dinner in, as we had eaten a lot of pizza, thought we should have something different, another good place to go for evening meal.

We also went down the end of the train line to Torregaveta. I think some of their lines weren't working as the place we wanted to go to we couldn't get there. But we stayed here for a while had a wonder about, saw lot of people fishing at the end of the pier. There was a small beach here too.

We then got the train back and went to Pozzuoli again but got of at another station and walked all the way back to the town centre which was a nice walk took a good hour or so. I'm not sure which stop we got off at now but walking along the coast back to Pozzuoli's town centre we came across all these stray cats again, they seem to be sleeping in the rocks on the coast it was crazy. Cats right by the sea, I was having a great time taking loads of photos of them, so many different cats.

Once we walked all the way back to  Pozzuoli, we had a wonder about, looked at the boats that were docked there. We did go find out how much it would cost to get a boat to one of the islands, but the person in the information place wasn't very helpful at all.

This was the last night staying here, the next day we had to go back to Naples to get our boat to Sorrento. Read all about that in Part 3, which will be coming up soon.

Again Thanks for reading, let me know what you think and if you enjoyed the read.

Thanks Aimee

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