Long Overdue Trip Post! - Day 4

The 14th was a really exciting day ^^ - we had agreed to go line up for goods with the four Arashians we met at our hostel, so we left very early in the morning for Fukuoka Yahoo! Dome. The thing was, we thought we were super early; there were literally no one in the streets when we walked out and it was still very dark out, and even the bus only had one or two other passengers in it. But almost every stop had more and more Arashians coming in - people with Arashi totes, phone straps, etc., people dressed up in their ichiban's colours, and all that. We ran up the stairs to the Dome, stopping only to take a picture of it, and noticed that the queue for goods already went halfway around the Dome.

We queued up. It was four partly-exhilirating, partly-miserable, hours in extremely cold weather. But once the booths started opening, it was pretty fast, so I'm glad that we went early.When we finally got our goods we stopped very briefly to take pictures, and parted ways. Salwa and I continued to explore the Dome area - there's a mall nearby - while the other Arashians took a bus to Beppu. Like us, they're going to the concert on the 15th, and so decided to go to an onsen first.

At the mall, we were astounded to find that Arashi was everywhere! The Hard Rock Cafe there was playing the Scene concert DVD on their TVs, and other stores had Arashi songs playing *_*. The first two pics below are Salwa's, the rest are mine ~

 

After we left the Dome area we explored Fukuoka, visiting the Johnny's Shop and Canal City among other places.

It was another very, very long queue, first to get in, then to pay. But it was absolutely worth it!