The anticipated release of the Tim Burton’s Alice and Wonderland last week took me to Sapporo for the evening and a stay at the Sapporo Gracery on the ‘budget plan’, what a bargain.
Sending the afternoon with Eri and a birthday ramen on ramen alley in Susukino. Shopping at the usual places. Loft has a new location since closing, across the street in the same building at Uni Qlo, ahhh, bliss.
Oishii shifoodo miso ramen with the lovely birthday girl.
Found some new shops on this trip, an enormous Muji in the station shopping center, a Three Coin shop and even Top Shop comes to Japan – clothes were all a bit weird, nothing I liked.
Cool way to collect money for wildlife, different animals on the wall.
I wasn’t blown away by the movie, the 3D aspect was pretty cool. The new version was supposed to be a continuation of the cartoon which it was, although I didn’t like the character developments. The cartoon was a sequence of interactions with random characters that is more like the books. The film tried to build on emotions and framework, which I appreciate, but didn’t really feel worked. I did like the costume changes that Alice had to make between shrinking and growing. I was entertained, maybe I’m just a little too grown up to get completely lost in the new version. I just love the imagination and strangeness of the cartoon and books too much.
View from coffee shop in the train station shopping centre.
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