Asahi Hotel.
My room.
Around 3.50 PM we arrived at the hotel. It was called Asahi Hotel, near Oigami Spring. It was situated in the city of Numata, Gunma Prefecture. There was no convenience store nearby, but there was a shop selling drinks, junk foods and some traditional candies. For the hotel, me and my friend got a room for 4 people, and was sharing the room with other two. It seems that the other two applied together just like us, so it wasn't much a problem getting to know them.
Scenery from the window of 9th floor, in front of the dining area.
On the way to the shop, I took some pictures of the buses. Wherever these buses go, they would get attention from others, definitely.
A normal bus. Perhaps the passengers were not planning to decorate their bus at all.
Scenery around the area. Hills, trees and small shops and houses.
The room had only one toilet and one bathroom. The lounge's floor was made of tatami mat. There was a TV and a mini table at the center of the lounge. After settled down our luggage and stuffs, we went out of the hotel to get some food and drinks for tonight. After that we went straight to dining area to take our dinner, that was around 4.15 PM.
My dinner. After all the pork have been removed.
Before I started to eat, I asked a Japanese wota beside me to tell which one of the foods contained porks. When he showed me, I wanted to give the pork to him, but he insisted on giving them to my friend lol. He asked me, where did I came from, how did I get to know Berryz and other questions. We talked a bit and then enjoyed our dinner. For me, the food was okay but not really good because most of it were fresh seafood. Plus, it had plenty of different seafood to eat, but all of them were in small quantity. To be honest my stomach was not really filled lol.
After that, we gathered around 5.30 PM in front of the hotel and got into the bus to go to the live event that night. The place was so far we even had to go through the highway to get there. It took us around 1 hour and 15 minutes. Even I slept during that time lol. Before we arrived, the bus guide played a video message, this time was Chinami. She said something about enjoying the live event that night, and mentioned about them preparing some candies for all the participants. After the video finished, the bus guide gave some candies to each of us.
Candies! With official stickers.
After a long journey, finally we arrived at the place. It was called Tamamura Bunka Hall, where the capacity of the hall is around 900 people. It has no 2nd floor seatings. We then took seats according to the draws we had took earlier on that day. I got seat 29th row number 21. It was a very very bad seat, but at least it was the aisle seat, so I had more space to dance lol. Plus the hall's floor was not flat, so I could see pretty clear of the girls from my seat, except it was a bit far.
Because the theme of this bus tour was Halloween, most of the participants wore costumes like pumpkin heads, dracula mantle and other costumes, during the 8-shot photo shoot. But for this live event, most of them wore wota T-shirt and clothes they usually wore for concerts. Surprisingly, there were some of them that still wore Halloween costumes. I saw a man wearing pumpkin mask but held a penlight lol. Behind my seat was a friend of mine, a crazy Japanese wota that had attended mostly all of Berryz concerts and events. He called me "Malaysia" since he knew I'm from Malaysia, and asked me to dance crazily together with him for that night's live event lol. He even wore a funny costume, probably a sexy witch costume with skirt ROFL.
Before the live event started, the hall went dark and they played Michael Jackson's Thiller intro. People started to clap and I already went a bit outside into the aisle, then suddenly someone pushed me back into my seat. When I looked, I realized it was the staff clearing the path for Berryz to come to stage from the back. The girls wore some kind of witch costume with witch hats that made people hard to recognize them. When they got on the stage, they took off their hats and started singing the first song. The set list was like this:
1. Jiriri Kiteru
2. Furare Pattern
MC
3. Dakishimete Dakishimete
4. Sakura wa Raku sa
MC
5. Kono Yubi Tomare
6. Passion E-CHA E-CHA
7. Ai Suru Hito no Namae wo Nikki ni
Lottery Draw Session
8. Ai no Suki Suki Shisu Jyoshochu
9. Sayonara Hageshiki Koi
10. Arigato Tomodachi
Encore
11. Rival
12. Yuujou Junjou oh Seishun
During the MC parts, the girls mentioned about certain seats that have special decoration on it. People who have their seat like that would get a present. Other than that, they have the Lottery Draw Session, using the piece of paper that all participants wrote down their answers for the bat hunting game. Only 7 people were selected, and the present was a small penlight that shaped something like ghost, signed by each member. Sadly, I didn't get any of these T_T
About the set list, it was made of really good songs, in my opinion. I love Dakishimete Dakishimete and a bit unhappy with the tour concert they doing right now, "Medachitai" because they don't sing that song. But performance-wise, they often did mistakes. Wrong lyrics, forgotten parts etc. But who cares, we are their die-hard fan, so no one would comment about that ROFL.
There was once a ghost doll dropped down into the center of the stage. All of the girls except Saki-chan were surprised. Saki-chan knew about that and explained it was part of the Halloween theme lol.
When they performed the song "Rival" for encore, they came out to the stage by side doors of the hall. And they came out late, right after Risako finished singing her 1st part of the lyric, making everyone guessing where they were. Everyone was like looking to the back and forth, trying to find where would the girl come out form.
The event ended around 8.45 PM. We got into the bus and headed back straight to our hotel. On the way, the bus guide played one more video message and this time it was from Yurina. She mentioned about tonight's live and said she's looking forward for event on the next day. And, all of us got ourselves a surprised gift. It was inserted in the pocket at the back of the seat when we enjoying the live event. It was a paper containing drawings and messages from the girls. They wrote about how they enjoyed the 1st day, and looking forward for the next day.
This time the envelope was orange.
We got back to the hotel around 10.00 PM after a long journey through highway. When we got back to our room, the futons were already laid on the floor. Usually the Japanese wotas have some drink party with their friends in their hotel room, but I was too tired so I took my bath and went to sleep early.
To be continued.
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