Day 24 Tobu World Tour/ Dr. Fish/Cracker Factory

Day 24 Tobu World Tour/Dr. Fish/Cracker factory

by Donna Charles on Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 3:48am

Becky and Sue came and picked me up at hotel around 11am. I was waiting on them and ready to leave. They tell me i can make a choice whether I want to go to Tobu World Square or not. Sounded like they wanted to go and I don't mind sounds good to me. Am excited about being with my friends again. Enjoy spending time with Becky and Sue. Both of them are sweet people and I am lucky I know them both. :-D I have copied some information about the world Square just so you know what i went to see there.


Tobu is located at 209-1, Ohara, Kinugawa Onsen, Nikko-shi, Tochigi-ken. Tobu World Square is a theme park with miniature recreations of the world's historic relics and architecture.
The park is roughly divided into six zones (Modern Japan, America, Egypt, Europe, Asia, and Japan) where detailed recreations (1/25 size) of 45 World Heritage Sites including Egypt's three great pyramids, the Parthenon, and Rokuon-ji Golden Pavilion as well as the Empire State Building and other famous buildings of the world (approximately 100 in total) are found.
Approximately 140,000 miniature dolls each about seven centimeters in height stand around the architecture to make the exhibits look as real as possible.

Toured around all the exhibits and now its lunch time. We have finished looking through the shops and saw all world exhibits and are ready to leave.

Stopped on our way to Flowers and green paradise Nikko 花Ichimonme,Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture. Had lunch at Canon an Italian restaurant food was great but very expensive. Time to get to the Flower place where we will meet Dr. Fish.

upon our arrival at the flower paradise the place is pretty big and doesn't look busy at all lucky for us. When we walk in I hear Sue making noises about what she is seeing, I walk in and see all the huge begonia plants hanging from the ceiling of the building. They were beautiful, breathtaking and now i know what made Sue make those noises the beauty of all those huge flowers.


We decided that visiting Dr. Fish would be the first thing we do when we get in there so we went to sign up and pay our money. I leaned over the pool of fish and inside was about a 1,000 fish. I still paid my $3 which in America cost approx.$45. I also bought a towel for $1 to dry my feet when done. There was already a Mom and daughter with their feet in the pool of fish and it didn't seem to bother them at all..... I took my socks and shoes off and so did Sue. :I am very nervous about doing this i hate fish touching me its a freak out I have when i get in the ocean or lake. I turned around on my bottom and put my feet in the fish pool first and the first fish that touched my feet I screamed because it scared me so bad when they started attacking my feet. YIKES Becky said its ok Donna and then Sue put her feet in and felt the sensation that I felt and she was not quiet either. LOL the video will show you our reactions. I am so glad that Becky took us here because this is something i would never have done on my own. Great idea Becky for thinking of doing this trip to Dr. Fish. We toured around the green house. There is also a place to buy things to eat and a nice area set up under all those hanging baskets to sit and enjoy lunch. There is also a pool which has flowers floating all over it and table and chairs set out by it. you can also eat your lunch sitting by the pool, beautiful place to spend some time and enjoy lunch there. : -) Becky Sue and I are having a great time together, so nice to have such wonderful friends while here in Japan. We all shopped and then it was time to leave this tropical paradise.

Again we are all in the car and headed to the cracker factory. Now I have no idea of what to expect when we get there. The cracker factory is not far from the flower paradise location. The place is a big purple building very interested in what goes on within the building. Becky took Sue and I inside and there are lots of tables set up with a variety of crackers on each table. They have samples set out of each type of cracker they sell. We all got so full on sampling those crackers. Needed some coffee so Becky took us over to the machine where you could get a cup for FREE. WE sat down at tables they had set up and sipped our coffee. : -) Becky told us that she wanted to take us to watch them actually make the crackers. She proceeded to take us upstairs to watch the production of making crackers. Thanks again Becky for a beautiful trip around Japan!!! I appreciate everything all my friends are doing for me to make this a trip I will NEVER forget. ; -D

I'm home now and Marlon did not arrive home till 8pm, he wanted to go out and grab a bite. We ran into Bill and Clement and they invited us to have dinner with them we wasn't going to but thought why not we don't want to walk around finding some place to eat so lets eat at la Pausa which is cheap and good food. Dinner was great as usual and I enjoyed our conversations while eating dinner. I even got 1/2 of Bills potato salad I love it!!! LOL