Showing posts with label new year sale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new year sale. Show all posts
Sunday, 8 March 2015
new year shopping in tokyo
FINALLY i have finished posting about my first laps of japan trip, tokyo.... we spent 4 days there: day 1, arrived in japan; day 2, walk around central tokyo; day 3, harajuku sales & kinki kids concert; day 4, shibuya sales, you can read about them & see for yourself how amazing new year sale can be ....... it was tiring 4 days since we were rushing to places & carrying lot of lucky bags but really fun, at least for me =)
Friday, 2 January 2015
Day 4: tokyo
*back dated entry*
today is the second of the new year sales which is also the day of INTENSIVE shopping for the rest of the crowd cause all the shops resumed business..... for today, my targets are samantha bags & shibuya 109....
i guess most people should have know the samantha brand by now... i like their bags, they have several series & all of them look very sweet & nice but the prices here are just too high... of cause, if you compared to the high end brands then samantha still belongs to the affordable range... i would say in SG, average price of the bag will be about SGD400, if there are sales, lowest price i saw was something like SGD300+.... my friend told me that samantha is much cheaper in japan since it's local brand so naturally samantha bags will be my target for this trip....
as i stayed in Ueno this time, my goal is to chiong samantha in Ueno marui since they have 3 shops in that mall.... i arrived at marui at about 10am & woah.... all the girls were "fighting" for samantha vegas lucky bags.... not so much for petite & thavasa probably due to the price.... lucky bag for vegas cost 10,800 yen but thavasa 1 cost 21,000yen... i was very tempted to get vegas lucky bag but i was worried that if the design or colour not nice then will be wasted.... so in the end i go for thavasa 50% sales bags.... not all the bags were having sales but substantial amount & i found the bag i always wanted at half price = 14,500 yen!!!! which is like 160sgd!!! common man, that's like half price of the so call SALES price you get in SG!!!!
helped my friend gotten the petite lucky bag... not too bad i would say, 2 wallets for 10,800yen when normally 1 will cost that much.... after gotten my samantha, we chiong to shibuya 109!!!
finally i arrived at SHIBUYA!!!! by the time i reached it was close to 12nn so the morning crowd has left but there was still some small groups of girls outside the building to do exchanges for their lucky bag items..... when i stepped inside the building, woah, super packed with people!!!!
seriously, everywhere is packed with people cause every stores were having sales & selling lucky bags!!! if SG has winter, i am so going to sweep back at least 5 more lucky bags from shibuya but i controlled!!!! the sales were really tempting cause they were really cheap!!! when they say sales, it means serious sales... really everything on sales, not like SG, always 1 small section has sales items but they put the super huge sales word in the store....
after some serious consideration, i only bought 2 lucky bags at shibuya
the ober lucky bag really worthy, you get a total of 4 bags for 3000yen.... so damn cheap!!! the 2015yen lucky bag was cheap too but you have more random & not so useful stuff....
after shibuya we slowly made our way back to ueno & inside the station we saw this very cute bakery....
the usagi bun was so cute!!! taste wise was average but the look was really cute!!!! & then we had dinner a yoshinoya....
after which we went to ueno ABAB, it's a relatively new shopping center, i wanted to go there cause i need to go daiso to get more vacuum bags to contain my clothes.... & there i found amazing stuff....
this golden store is somewhat like a mixture of supermarket & daiso cause their items are so cheap!!! average snack cost like 90yen, even cheaper than daiso (100yen)!!! really amazing store... & within the buildings you have other less well known boutique brands but their designs are nice too & best thing, they are CHEAP!!! i didnt manage to take any photo of those shops but like a decent looking down jacket cost 2990yen, shoes 990yen, nice coats at 4000yen+, etc.... seriously.... you can just shop till you drop inside ABAB & the good thing is you dont have to fight with the crowd cause there wasnt too many customers.....
after some small shopping at ABAB we walked back to hotel & we saw another amazing thing.... FROZEN lucky bag!!! yup, japan really has lucky bags for everything!!!
i am not a frozen fan but my nieces are, they LOVE frozen... & i can imagine their happy faces when they saw the bags....
so that marks the end of tokyo & first laps of my japan trip... tomorrow we will head up to nagano where the sightseeing part of the trip will start =)
today is the second of the new year sales which is also the day of INTENSIVE shopping for the rest of the crowd cause all the shops resumed business..... for today, my targets are samantha bags & shibuya 109....
i guess most people should have know the samantha brand by now... i like their bags, they have several series & all of them look very sweet & nice but the prices here are just too high... of cause, if you compared to the high end brands then samantha still belongs to the affordable range... i would say in SG, average price of the bag will be about SGD400, if there are sales, lowest price i saw was something like SGD300+.... my friend told me that samantha is much cheaper in japan since it's local brand so naturally samantha bags will be my target for this trip....
as i stayed in Ueno this time, my goal is to chiong samantha in Ueno marui since they have 3 shops in that mall.... i arrived at marui at about 10am & woah.... all the girls were "fighting" for samantha vegas lucky bags.... not so much for petite & thavasa probably due to the price.... lucky bag for vegas cost 10,800 yen but thavasa 1 cost 21,000yen... i was very tempted to get vegas lucky bag but i was worried that if the design or colour not nice then will be wasted.... so in the end i go for thavasa 50% sales bags.... not all the bags were having sales but substantial amount & i found the bag i always wanted at half price = 14,500 yen!!!! which is like 160sgd!!! common man, that's like half price of the so call SALES price you get in SG!!!!
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| tada my very first samantha!!! |
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| samantha petite lucky bag |
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| shibuya view from station |
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| shibuya 109 |
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| INGNI sales |
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| people everywhere |
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| more people |
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| ank rouge sales |
after some serious consideration, i only bought 2 lucky bags at shibuya
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| ober tashe 3000yen lucky bags |
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| 2015yen lucky bag from some accessory shop |
after shibuya we slowly made our way back to ueno & inside the station we saw this very cute bakery....
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| cute bakery |
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| usagi bun!!! |
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| dinner |
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| ABAB at ueno |
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| daiso |
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| cute calendars from daiso |
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| golden store |
after some small shopping at ABAB we walked back to hotel & we saw another amazing thing.... FROZEN lucky bag!!! yup, japan really has lucky bags for everything!!!
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| 2000yen frozen lucky bag |
so that marks the end of tokyo & first laps of my japan trip... tomorrow we will head up to nagano where the sightseeing part of the trip will start =)
Thursday, 1 January 2015
Day3 : tokyo
*back dated entry*
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! today is going to be a very fulfilling day!!! there are 3 main objectives... 1st is go sensoji to pray for good luck, 2nd is chiong lucky bags in harajuku & 3rd will be going for my KinKi kids concert!!!!
so today we woke up pretty early cause from what i heard, there would be tonnes of people flocking to temple/shrines to pray so i want to avoid the crowd so that i still have time to fly down to harajuku to shop... so we reached sensoji close to 10am & to my surprise, the place was not very pack.... i would say it had much more visitors than normal but it wasnt pack till you can hardly walk.... so that was good....
didnt take much photo today cause not going to anywhere new... i actually took picture of skytree from afar but my bloody phone siao then photos were corrupted =( since it was new year day, i went to check my fortune for 2015 & i gotten bad luck =( super sian.... so i went to tie the bad luck paper on the rack, hopefully can keep the unlucky things there.....
so after that, we chiong down to harajuku & again, we were surprised... there wasnt alot of people at takeshita street... in fact i felt there was more people yesterday than today... but that's a good thing since we can walk around freely.... for the first time, i FINALLY experience japan new year sale... & excuse me... it's OMG AWESOME!!! let me share some pictures first...
ok... i was busy shopping so i couldnt take more photo but what more i need to say... everywhere is SALE!!!! & like seriously, how can you resist not buying such cheap stuff!?!?!? i will show the items inside the fukubukuro later... let me tell you... they are AWESOME!!!! & you can see how much things i can buy within 1 hr... & all the loot cost only 26115yen which is about SGD$290!!!! later when you see the items then you will be super surprise how many items you can get with that price....
ok... so after shopping, we gotten some snack along harajuku & it SNOWED!!! i always read online that it's somewhat like confirm that it will snow on 1st jan & it DID!!! YEAH!!! so happy to see snow for the first time!!! it was really light snow but hey... i still find it super amazing!!!! after some snack, we went back to hotel to put down my loot before heading down to tokyo dome!!!
i always wanted to contribute my maiden concert visit to KinKi Kids & i DID it!!!! tokyo dome was really HUGE!!!! i was like sitting somewhere at the back & when i looked down, the amount of people was HUGE!!!! then stupid me didnt know where to buy those concert merchandises so i went inside the dome & thought they will sell things inside but apparently the queue was OUTSIDE!!!! i wanted to buy the light stick but the tiny stores inside the dome DIDNT sell!!! they only had photos & jackets... so i went inside the concert without light stick =( it felt TERRIBLE!! cause every single audience had one, whether it was from the concert merchandise or a normal light stick... i had NONE!!! so i cant wave but nonetheless, the concert was AWESOME!!! seeing KinKi Kids performance live was really very different from online.... tsuyo was so damn cute!!! man... i was like practically bouncing & screaming when they appeared on stage... but hey... i wasnt the only one... EVERYBODY stood up & waved their lightsticks..... the 10k yen tickets really worth it.... but hubby was sleeping inside since he not into KinKi.... but who cares.... =p
NOW!!! the moment of truth is here!!! let me reveal what i gotten inside my lucky bags....
inside Luceo lucky bag, you get a coat, 2 knit top, 1 knit cardigan, 1 bottom & this sweet shape pillow arm warmer... all these things for 5800yen!!! come on man.... to buy a cheapo coat from taobao already cost me SGD$30+ & some more quality was just average.... i would say this Luceo bag was the most worthwhile bag that i gotten....
hmm... i would say tutuanna bag was ok... you get 5 pairs of socks & 2 pairs of stockings... but all these were not suitable to wear in SG.... so not really worthwhile
paris kids sell accessories... they had several variety of lucky bags, some just for ear rings, hair accessories & etc.... i think the things they gave were not really useful but it was cheap so ok lo...
aimerfeel sell inner garments & my friend tole me this brand has very comfy bra... for 3500yen you get 3 bra set, 1 extra panty & a pouch.... quite good bargain i would say
i couldnt remember this brand... think it was momo something... this brand sell more mori to loli-ish kind of clothes.... really lovely.... but compared to the items you get from Luceo, i think latter was better
i think the shop name was audrey or something, it was the last boutique store if you enter from the JR harajuku station side... you get 2 jacket, 1 shawl like stuff, 1 dress & pouch for 2000yen... good bargain but the items didnt look very nice
swimmer is a popular brands in japan, they sell all sorts of cute stuff... so it was one of my main target for this lucky bag spree... they had 2 types of lucky bags... 1500yen & 3000yen... since latter looked much bigger & heavier... kiasu me of cause gotten the 3000yen bag & it really had ALOT of stuff inside....
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! today is going to be a very fulfilling day!!! there are 3 main objectives... 1st is go sensoji to pray for good luck, 2nd is chiong lucky bags in harajuku & 3rd will be going for my KinKi kids concert!!!!
so today we woke up pretty early cause from what i heard, there would be tonnes of people flocking to temple/shrines to pray so i want to avoid the crowd so that i still have time to fly down to harajuku to shop... so we reached sensoji close to 10am & to my surprise, the place was not very pack.... i would say it had much more visitors than normal but it wasnt pack till you can hardly walk.... so that was good....
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| breakfast |
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| entrance to sensoji |
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| big lantern in sensoji |
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| place to tie your bad luck |
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| food store around sensoji |
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| some holy water thing |
so after that, we chiong down to harajuku & again, we were surprised... there wasnt alot of people at takeshita street... in fact i felt there was more people yesterday than today... but that's a good thing since we can walk around freely.... for the first time, i FINALLY experience japan new year sale... & excuse me... it's OMG AWESOME!!! let me share some pictures first...
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| Luceo |
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| lis lisa |
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| momo |
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| aimerfeel |
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| liz lisa sub brands lucky bags |
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| my loot in 1hr |
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| grilled mochi |
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| food store along harajuku |
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| it's SNOWING!!! |
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| lunch |
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| laqua city |
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| KinKi Kids M concert |
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| tokyo dome |
NOW!!! the moment of truth is here!!! let me reveal what i gotten inside my lucky bags....
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| Luceo 5800yen lucky bag |
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| tutuanna 1000yen lucky bag |
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| paris kids 315yen lucky bag |
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| aimerfeel 3500yen lucky bag |
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| 7000yen lucky bag |
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| 2000yen lucky bag |
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| swimmer 3000yen lucky bag |
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| items inside swimmer lucky bag |
when i opened the lucky bag i was shock by the amount of items which also explained the weight... the bag was really heavy & i had a hard time carrying it back to hotel.... i would say they have 4 main categories of items.... first was accessories + bag, second was stationery, third was kitchen stuff & lastly the room deco.... really ALOT of items for 3000yen... really value for $ but i would say most of the items were not really useful....
so above were the bags i gotten from harajuku.... i only intended to get like 1-2 bags for this trip but obviously i couldnt control myself in harajuku =p so girls, please do go to japan during its new year sales.... the things are seriously cheap... you dont have to get clothes, almost everything has lucky bags... be it food, bags & even contact lens.... can really shop till you drop =)
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