NIIGATA CITY (15-Apr)

This is the first time I ventured into the city. Anywhere in Japan, though called small city or town, is actually not ulu like how we think about places in Malaysia. It’s still a high-tech place nonetheless. Niigata City is not a big city. Maybe around the size of Ipoh. They have 2 main shopping districts here; Bandai and Furumachi. There is a shopping place called Yodobashi where they have all sorts of electrical gizmos selling at discounted prices and they have those “J-card” type where you can collect points and use them again for purchases. The city is getting more colourful with cherry and tulips blossoming. Niigata is one of the major exporters of tulips and maybe the biggest in Japan. I can’t wait till the coming week because Syakir told that he would bring us to a tulip farm where the whole horizon is covered with tulips of different colours.