Japan Training Trip (Week 1)

On 14th Oct. 2012, the plan come to execution.

at about 4pm, all the trainees and business trip members gather at the company lobby waiting for the final instructions from the admin and we take the bus to Singapore Changi Airport.......take flight to Japan, a place I wanted to go but very difficult to arrange.

This time is the longest flight time I ever take in my life so far, but thanks God, with his blessing, the plane take off and arrived in Tokyo safely after 7 hours of flight, the time we arrives is about 6am in the morning, but the sky was so bright, then I just realise their light time become early in the Autumn time.

Tokyo Hanaeda Airport

 I saw the only advertisement along the arrival hall corridor

Waiting train in Shijuku Station

We use to see and heard Japanese walk very fast, 1st day in Japan I can experience it, when we reach Shinjuku station, one of the busy station in Tokyo, we can saw many people running or walk very fast in the station to rush for work or school. 

Super Azusa Inner View

We take the express train to Shiojiri, their train is well keep and there is train service in the train, so we can buy drinks or food in the train.

The trip from Shinjuku to Shiojiri by express train need takes about 3 hours, I could imaging if we take normal train, how long we need......

The hostel we going to stay for 2 months

On 20th October, my first weekend in Japan, our managers bring us to Matsumoto City for sightseeing.

This is my first time to take normal train in Japan, and knowing that their railway is share for all types of train, so only the normal train will stop in every station, others will only stop at specific station.

Train Schedule at Midoriko Station

To take train in Japan is not a easy things, we must know the train schedule and know where the train heading to..... some small station, if you miss the train, you may need to wait for 10mins to 1 hours.....

The 1st time, we miss the train......and need wait about 30mins..... but good experience to train us be punctual, and surprising how trustworthy and discipline Japanese are, their small train station (Usually in village area) only have the ticketing machine and not gate, so you can go up to train without the ticket (if you plan to drop at another small station......But we all buy the ticket la......

Matsumoto City is one of the big city in Nagano Ken, in here, have one of the oldest Castle in Japan ---> Matsumoto Castle, but due to our schedule, we only reach their gate to take few photos.

We also eat their famous bento here, the restaurant we went is very near to the castle and know from local, this is one of the famous restaurant in town.

The restaurant we went

Our lunch in Matsumoto

Although we have no time go into the castle, but I will come again.

Others than the castle, we also move around in the city, so that we can familiar with the city, then  we can come ourselves next time.

Another stop point we went is the Timepiece Museum, in here, we can see the history of time and timepiece history in Japan, even my boss ask me how understanding on the timepiece since our main product is watches.