Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Day 3: Hello Kitty's Town

Day 3: After a looong train ride with transfers, we reach Tama Center.. (its funny if you read in chinese.) We're greeted by this right out of the train station. Definately in the correct place.


After some walking, following signs like this one...

You will see a giant Kitty...
The final stretch, i start walking very fast here.

The ticket booth 4400 yen for a 'passport'- all shows, rides..
Tickets in hand, we enter puro village.



Picture with cinnamon! I think the little girl looks way better than ehm older people in this pic, so i used her pic instead. So kawaii!
Kero-keroppi? The poor green frog was quite neglected actually. People queued to take pictures with Mocha and Cinnamon, little twin stars etc, but no one queued to take picture with him (i tink he's male) The little girls looks kind of scared...


Onward to Kitty's castle

Boat ride, i skipped this one though.

School excursion. Kids in red caps.


Cute clock tower

Performance below the Wisdom tree. Melody looks weird with legs..A bit naked?

Very pretty performers. They are like Hi5.. All the kids dance and sing happily. And they all get a Sanrio cape.
School excursion group 2 on yellow caps. Notice the same thing in the Hakone Museum too. I wonder what happens if 2 schools wear the same colour? Do they coordinate the colour beforehand?


Hello Kitty Theatre
The story is about Hello Kitty in the land of Oz. Hello Kitty reads a book and then spins and spins and finds herself in the land of Oz wearing red boots..
Its gets really crazy after this. Even Elvis makes an appearance. The musical is in Japanese and i don't understand a thing. I dozed off after some time.


Pretty dancers..

Morph into Kitties!
Daniel?
I left the Marchen Theatre 40min later clueless..


Cute vending machines

Lucky dip at 500yen a try
Taking a pic with the giant kitty


We've all turned into kitties...
More performances below the Wisdom tree.
Watched a short 3D show. Its quite cute. One of the characters farted flowers.. yes.. the screen was filled with a burst of bright yellow flowers and the theatre was filled with a sweet scent.

Hello Kitty's house. This is a key attraction (long queue). I think i queued for half an hour or more.. and its on a monday

Finally we make it into Kitty's abode.

Kitty is definately a narcissist. Everything from chairs to bathtubs are in the shape of its head.
Another queue... Inside Hello Kitty's house. I think i queued 15 min here.. to take a picture with Hello Kitty.. While queuing a Britney video was playing. Kitty likes Britney? So weird...

That's all for Kitty's house.
My Melody shrine? You see happiness bells, pray-for-good-luck places quite a lot..


You can purchase a make-a-wish slip of paper, write your wishes and hang it here.



The gift shop.. You can go crazy here. It took all my willpower to not grab a fluffy Melody!

Ended off the day with dessert at the Cinnamon Roll cafe. You get to keep the cups.
Night shot of Sanrio Puroland. Another loong train ride back to Shinjuku. We decided to call it a day early since we have to wake up super early tomorrow.

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