october means pumpkins in tokyo in autumn

Happy October everyone! I don’t think October means pumpkins for most of the residents of Tokyo, but maybe some lost souls out there.

We went to Yumenoshima Tropical Greenhouse Dome, which we have been to before and you can find the post here. Looking back at that post, I’ve taken pretty much the exact same pictures, so maybe just read this one.

It wasn’t empty like last time and you had to reserve a time slot. The photographers were out in FULL force – we saw children being paraded around dressed as pumpkins, witches and Snow White. That’s ...

botanical garden and pumpkins


It’s nearly Halloween and I love Halloween. That makes it the perfect time of year for me. Although, this year I must say, I haven’t been really feeling so excited for it. I’ve actually been feeling more excited for Christmas. Nevertheless, we went to Yumenoshima Tropical Greenhouse Dome or 夢の島熱帯植物館 in Japanese, last weekend. I wanted to go last year but kept thinking it would always be packed with people wanting to photograph the pumpkins. I couldn’t have been more wrong, it was practically empty.

It was ¥500 to get in for a couple which I was ecstatic about.

Inside ...

how greedy can you get?

A quick update on what we’ve eaten recently. I will be back in October and I have formed a new budget and everything and will be sharing my money saving escapades with you all (hopefully!)

Halloween doughnuts at Mister Donut (don’t you love the crazy eyes?)

This was the best one out of the two Halloween choices.

The chocolate on this wasn’t too great, but really, I didn’t expect it to be. It had cream in it.

We thought that this looked a little bit, erm…suggestive.

We had Cinnabon. I always thought Cinnabon wasn’t going to be too great, so ...