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Thursday, March 27, 2008

11th Week - Thursday to Sunday (200308 - 230308) A Soka University Chapter.

200308 (Thursday) - Departing

Chop chop finished my work in the office before leaving office at 5.30pm. The bus will leave for Tokyo at 8.18pm and I reached home at 6pm to double-check all my items and put them in my backpack before having my dinner.

At 7.10pm, I left my apartment for Hiroshima Bus Centre (On the way, Kondo-san saw me crossing the road near my apartment and was surprised I was carrying such a big bag! Hehe...)

I reached at around 7.30pm and since I was early, I walked around the bus terminal taking photos with numerous eyestares and giggling. But I continued to take photos. Haha!

Finally, with the weight on my back, I decided to enter the warm waiting room and sat down to wait for my bus to come.


Sign at Hiroshima Bus Centre...


The terminal...



Waiting in the cosy waiting room for my bus to come...

My platform... Towards Tokyo!

The bus came at 8.10pm and left on the dot at 8.18pm! Here starts my adventure!!!

Yeah! My bus has finally come!!!

The bus first drove to the next bus terminal at 8.31pm to pick up the remaining passengers and left 2 minutes later. It headed for the nearest highway exit and travelled through a lot of tunnels as Chugoku region has a lot of mountains...

At 9.30pm, I reached a resthouse in Fukuyama still inside Hiroshima Prefecture and to have 1 15 minutes break. The resthouse was similar to our pitstop for KL or Genting bus ride with some food and souvenir stalls.

Taking a 15 minutes rest in Fukuyama...


The inside of the rest house...

My bus!!!


The bus left at 9.45pm and at 10pm, the bus assistant switched off all the lights and closed all the curtains. I was reading my NHR then and was shocked to find the lights off so early. I could do nothing but to listen to my mp3 and trying to peak outside to see where I am.

At 10.30pm, I discovered I was in Okayama Prefecture but after that I gave up looking outside as the bus kept on passing through tunnels and there was nothing much to see.


Then throughout the night, there was no more toilet breaks outside the bus except the bus taking regular stops to let the drivers take a break.


I slept all the way until 5am when I discovered I reached Shizuoka Prefecture! I actually missed the whole part of Kansai! Haha...

And around 5.45am, the sky begins to brighten and at 6am, I was on the Tokyo toll! I slept for a bit more until 6.25am when I discovered I was in Roppongi (六本木)!

And at 6.45am, I reached Tokyo Eki! Hooray! I alighted and went to the entrance to find Kumiko-san, whom I asked her to bring me to Hachioji...

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