Escalator

This is one sight u will never see in Singapore: In Japan, people actually keep to one side of the escalator. They even queue up to step onto the escalator...
In most parts of Japan, pple keep to the left:
Only in Osaka, pple keep to the right:
BTW, there is no sign around that says "Pls keep the the left/right of the escalator".
People just do it

Tokyo Dome

in Japan, Dome = Stadium

Its a huge place, with a DOME, shopping centre and a theme park combined in a cluster.


Night view of the dome (entrance)
And theme park:

More abt CATS

Today, 4 singaporens from NUS went to watch the musical CATS in tokyo.
Entrance of the theatre:
At the entrance of the hall:
Yup, its the same broadway musical that came to Singapore a couple of years back, but in Japan, all the music lyrics are dubbed in Japanese (the meaning is retained, though)
Take a look at this song "Memory" - the most famous song in this play
Original English version: http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=cJHzoAmA8Ec
Japanese version(3min 15sec onwards): http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=PMo62DDyIh8

Another interesting thing we found in the theatre were these toilet signs with cat figures instead of human figures!!!

Kitty

Another blog abt cats...
Hello Kitty is every... it just gets scary after a while... There are hello kitty souvenir shops everywhere... and even a whole theme park delicated to Kitty.

All sort of souvenirs

Even in Universal studios, u see kitty mascot:












On some trains, this Kitty warning sign tells u to stay away from opening doors. "Dangerous"

Oh no, what did they do to kitty? bondage?