My saccharine friends, before telling you something more about my Jap adventure, I wanna share with you some of the Hello Kitty gadgets I’ve bought in Tokyo! Yep, because – even if I didn’t have time – I (of course!!!) managed to do some cute shopping in there!

I know I could have bought some HK dresses or expensive stuff, but what I like most are charms! Usually charms are just kawaii things that I use to buy, maybe to hang them on my mobile phone, or on my keyring… but actually I just love to own them #^.^#

And they’re a cheap present for myself, cheap but full of meaning and sweet memories!

And I found these sweet heart charms in a small shop in Ueno, it was a kind of mini market… but together with ramen and Asaki beer they also used to sell some cute stuff like this!

They’re just two lil’ Kitty-chan charms, but they were really sparkling… as much as my eyes as I saw them on the shelf \(^o^)/

Also the box is a tender heart, with passion red velvet inside to keep safe my lil’ jewels!

As you can see, the charms are still in their box, I need some more time to think where to put them! Maybe on my bag? Or on my iPhone’s case? Or even modify them for a necklace? Oh well, I still don’t know… but they’re so gorgeously kittylicious! =(^.^)=

My sweet sweet Kitty-friends, even if everyone here in Italy is crazy for sun and seaside, once back from Tokyo I could only think about Japan (>.<)
I’m missing so much everything about that gorgeous country, I must have been japanese in my previous life, for as much I was feeling at home! I was sure it would have been an amazing travel for me, and before leaving I prepared a kind of walking plan to decide my “must see!” places. One of those was Akihabara – they call it the tech town, but for me it’s just the geek’s paradise!

The lovely Shinkansen (in the photo above, that’s how they call trains in japanese ^_^) will welcome you as you arrive at Akihabara station, can you see how smiling and cute he is?

So many electronics shops in here, manga and anime stores at every corner, ramen restaurants, colors, screaming people… gosh, in a couple words, a crazy heaven!I was stunned by all those shops and sounds, just walking around with joyful tears in my eyes and saying “wow” “wow” “wow”… I’m pretty sure people there must have thought I was retarded…

There’re so many funny things in there, such as the Maid Cafè, the one you see in the pic above: if you go there to have a coffee, you’ll realize that the waitresses are all dressed as maids, cute cosplay maids! This one is one of the biggest I’ve seen in there, they said me there’s also the “male version” of this cafè… but I can’t tell, I’ve not been in there ’cause I was too busy running around like a messy gal!

And in Akihabara there’re also Sega and Taito’s palaces: just think about the biggest amusement arcade you can imagine… well, maybe they’re even bigger! I bought a lot of gashapons in Sega palace, while in Taito one I had fun making some kawaii pics in the “cutifie me” photo boot… I spent about an hour playing with my photos and the retouching software!

And then… the action figures shops \(^o^)/
How beautiful, how incredible… here is where plastic makes your dreams come true! I tried not to spend too much in these shops, because I was saving for my Hello Kitty shopping trip in KiddyLand… but I’ll tell you next time about it, this post is long enough to give you a big virtual hug if you were able to read it till… here!
Ciao for now, my beloved Kitty-gals, I’ll be back in the next few days with another Tokyo walking trip in my cute shoes =(^.^)=

My sweet Kitty-friends, I think it wasn’t fair keeping you waiting this long to know what the *hiiiik* I was doing in Japan… but it wasn’t my choice, I simply couldn’t tell you more about my adventure before a certain time! But now I can: my Hello Kitty car this time brought me really far, it was the reason why Fuji TV called me in Tokyo for a HK quiz show!

Yep, I’m not joking, I was a contestant in Nippon Daisuki Gaikokujin Grand Prix, a show in which foreigner guys were supposed to show all their love for Japan, making funny games and answering trivia questions about their passions. And *sniffs happily* I was called there for the Kitty-chan’s branch – I’ll explain you more later! It was a kind of dream, oh well, not really… even in my dreams I could never ever imagine that a thing like this would happen to me! Me, a lil’ gal from far far Italy… did I ever tell you I’m from a romantic town near Venice? Mmmh, I bet not n_∼

I really don’t know where to start to tell you about my Jap and TV adventure! There’re so many things to say that I know I’ll get lost into words! Seriously, I feel like a second grade girl trying to speak about her amusement park day… and all that sugar I ate today doesn’t help me to relax! I think it’s better if I divide my lil’ novel into different posts, so that you won’t feel bored reading all my craziness!

So I’m gonna start from the very beginning, the travel: you know, sometimes the travel is the best part of a journey – this was not the case, even if the travel to get to Tokyo was one of the most exciting things of all my life! I had to take a train to get to the nearest airport, Venice, and waited there about three long hours before taking the plane to Dubai. I’m really writing like a second grade girl. Nevermind, maybe like this the post will sound funnier =(^.^)=

Oh well, it was my very first time on a big plane like that: it was an Emirates flight, can’t tell you how kind and beautiful all hostesses were! I was feeling like a princess, it was incredible how they treat you on those flights! When I arrived in Dubai it was late nite, and the flight to Tokyo was only three hours later… so I just had the chance to have a Frappuccino and buy a nail enamel into the duty free shop, but couldn’t search for HK stuff into that huge airport, I was too scared I’d get lost in there!

As I got into the plane to Jap, I started to realize where I was going: it was an eleven hours flight, but I couldn’t sleep for how much I was excited! Also in this case, the plane was stunning, after one hour they turned the lights off, letting you to see a fake milky way made of LEDs on the roof! Incredible, really! While all people on the plane was sleeping, I watched “The princess and the frog”, and the 5th season of “How I met your mother”… all this, eating lollipops and chocolates, I’m still wondering how it’s possible that I smile with all my own teeth, LoL! ^_^

On the plane, I had the chance to meet one of the cutest girls ever, an italian hostess called Micòl: *sweetie, I don’t know if you’ll ever read my blog, but if you do… thank you so much for being so kind and patient with me, the photo you gave me is in my kitchen and I watch at it every day, as a memory of that flight! Thanks so much!!!*

Ok, now let’s get back into the plane: after ten hours in the air I was getting more nervous and scared (not only for the monsoons, poor me!), because I couldn’t imagine what I was going to find once landed in Narita, Tokyo. So I took my beauty case, fixed my make up, put on my head my handmade Hello Kitty bow and on my hands my cutie gloves, took a deep breath… and yep, I was there, in the country were cuteness is a way of living ^_^

And you know what I like most of all my adventure? That I had the chance to get there only because of my passion for Hello Kitty. That kawaii feline which was with me for all my life. That thing for which people used to call me a weirdo. That pink life that used to seem so strange to others. I was there because I never quitted dreaming. If you follow your passions one day you could be surprised by them, all you need to do is believe, trust your dreams because dreams could come true. Believe!

I think this post is even too long, if you had the patient to read everything let me give you a sweet virtual hug, till the next part of my cute journey =(^.^)=