Posts tonen met het label food. Alle posts tonen
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woensdag 19 augustus 2009

Shibuya Crossing & Harujuku Chilling

Today was the Shopping Galore!!
Harujuku really IS the place for all the sneaker and streetwear!
Shibuya too is a shopping place for the young ones. (for everyone actually)

Below a photo of the stuff I bought the past few days. Some of them, are souvenirs/gifts. So they're some spoilers for those who'll recieve it.

For some Japan will be a paradise when it comes to clothing. A lot of styles can be found here. At first I couldn't found some 'normal' stuff. Most of the things we came across were either urban stuff, asian style stuff, western classy stuff, skating stuff (which is cool by the way), or very expensive stuff. But after being used to the shopping streets and understanding which shops sells what, I've found that it is really cool to shop in Japan =)

Concerning the price, well some things are cheap, whereas other things can be pretty expensive as well. It really depends. You got a lot of stuff around the 3000 Yen (which is pretty okay price). Cheaper SALE things are around 1500 Yen. But NEW ARRIVALS can be like 6000 Yen.
It's still an okay price actually. Shoes can be pretty darn expensive by the way.
Oh but if you got to the more classy department stores with brands stores, the price is much higher than what I've stated. So yeah, find your way, and discover what suits you best.

About the sizes, well they say that the Japanese sizes are always one smaller. So like Medium is the western Small. And Large will be the western Medium. In some cases this is true. For example Japanese brands. But normal western brands like Nike handles the normal sizing. It really varies from brands to brands. So try to fit them if you can. Most of the time this is no problem in clothing stores. Some fitting rooms requires you to take off your shoes. And sometimes the storeclerk will wait for you outside.

The Japanese language also uses the words: Medium or Emu Sizuu, Largu Sizuu or Erlu Sizuu. So if you use this few words it will be okay to make yourself understandable.

I haven't tried to return any items yet, so I don't know how that works, but I guess it's possible, since that's like a normal consumers right.

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Really not much to say. Later post will be about the fastfood chains over here in Japan, Like MosBurger, Freshness Burger & Wendy's. We've went to these 3, but they're still more of these places like Lotteria and City First Convience Kitchen. I'll post it up when we've had them all =P (maybe).

As far as Japanese foods go, literally each 10 meter you walk there will be a foodplace.
(I'll write later as to the pricing and stuff and what you can eat)

So if you got questions about living in Japan, concerning the prices, shopping, eating, places to go, Japanese manners, feel free to ask them. I'll try to tell you what I've experience so far.

It's really fun over here in Japan. No I really do like it. If you guys have a chance, you really should come here to experience Japan!

Ja mate!!

dinsdag 11 augustus 2009

To Be In KoBe (The Best of Days)

Tuesday 11 August [Kobe]

Today, alongside with sunday (Nara) was really one of the best days so far in Japan. Although the first day Osaka and the Friday-Kyoto were quite nice too.
Anyway, today we went to Kobe where we were gonna meet up with Kana-san and her sister Aki-san. They were so nice to take us to see Kobe, their hometown. Kana-san, Frits' ....eeeh friend ;) came to Holland a few weeks ago. So there we switched emails so that we could meet up once we get to Japan.

So it was a great day. Guided by people who know the place makes it so much easier! That's one of the reasons we aren't so tired as we used to be on other days.

What we did today?

First went to "Weathercock House". A house built in a traditional german/europe way.
As you can see below in the photo with Homan, Kana-san and me.

Turns out there were even more of these kind of houses. You got the "Holland House", the "Denmark House" and more of these. Seemed like Kobe was the place for overseas traders back in the days.
After all the nice architecture we went to eat Soba. Look at all those Soba's!!
You needed to take of your shoes before you sat at the table.

Once our belly were full, it was time to go shopping!! One of the places we went to was Tsutaya, which sells music/film/dvd's/cd's. I bought the dvd "Shonen Merikensack" with my fav. actrice, the lovely Aoi Miyazaki!!
okay after we were done shopping we continued to Kobe's ChinaTown!
Hurray for the peacesign!
The ChinaTown was better/larger than that of Amsterdam (well duuuh, any ChinaTown is better than Amsterdams). But the biggest ChinaTown lies in Yokohama.
Next stop was the KOBE PORT TOWER, or KOBE TOWER.
Which was located along the shore.


So time to go up to this famous touristspot in Kobe!
Walking the stairs!!!
...
Noo, just kidding ;) there were elevators which we lined up for like 15 minutes.
Once we got up to the top, there was a chance to enjoy the faboulous skyline of Kobe.


Skyline again...=)

After the skyline viewings, it was 'resting time'. A short walk back to the shopping streets took us to a cafe where we had some drinks. Whereafter we went to walk again, saw a little shrine where I made some wish, and ended in foodplace somewhere hidden upstars. (Just like the Soba-place which was somewhere hidden too, but underground. We could never had found these places if we were by ourselves.)
Forgot what it was called, but we had some small dishes each time. (Small dishes like yakitori etc.)
Good times always fly by, so it was already time to get back to Osaka again when we finished our diner.
I would like to thank Kana-san and Aki-san for taking us around to see a wonderfull city. We had a great time. Even though sometimes the english communication wasn't that good, we still managed to talk =)
Thanks for today.
Arigatou!!
~~KinGuuMan~~~

donderdag 6 augustus 2009

I Live For Vending Machines

If you would give me 1 dollar for every vending machine I see in Japan, I would be a millionaire right now. There is literally a vending machine e-ve-ry-whe-re!! Around every corner, alley, street, building, shrine!, subway are vending machines.
You may ask why there's so many. I guess the Japanese know the danger of dehydration. They need to take in H2O or some sort to refill their energy through the day. Cause believe me, without these life-saving-machines, everyone would be fainting from the heat, stress, over-polite-japanese salesmen/women and what not. These vending machines are your best friend in Japan.

Also Japanese people likes brands, there's so many choices of beverages,softdrinks,juices to choose from. I don't think I can try them all by the end of my trip.


Drinks are 120 Yen to 150 Yen for larger ones.


Everyone's favourite phone in Japan. The Flip-Over 3G Multi-purpose phone!
Waiting in the subway? Flip open your phone! Need to tell your best friend the new shoes you bought? Flip open your phone! Checking your mail? Flip open your phone! Bored? Flip open your phone!!
I really really love them, I do. But I'm not buying one though...or maybe...just maybe...
(Well not everyone got these do, I've seen some with 'normal' ones. Slide-Up phones, normal 1piece phone. But those are rare. I've seen 1 person with a Touchphone (smartphone like those everyone uses in Europe). But she was most probably NOT Japanese...

Wednesday 5 August: Osaka (Namba,ShinSaiBashi, ShinSaiBashiSuji) (Umeda)

100 Yen shop, but it's actually 105 Yen plus the taxes.
We went to eat a RamenShop! Those with just 8 seats. Lined up at the table/bar-style.
You need to choose what you want to eat from a machine, then insert the money and you'll receive a card which you then give to the Ramen-maker =).



There were 2 kids next to us. And they reminded us of how to eat up your ramen properly. Which is eat/drink up everything! All the soup included!
So after this was ShinSaiBashi and Dotombori.
Look at all those bicycles, just like Amsterdam. ;)


Just pick a guy you like. Anyone will do. Cause they've got a very nice personality...
(eerh...right....)
No they do...they really do
(How do you know that, just by looking at them?)
Well...just look at them, they seem so nice and cool. And their hair...it's sooo fasionable.
(I don't think you should judge someone just on their looks and hair....)
Hmm...you've got a point. I guess you're right.
=P
(It's random...=P)
Anyway: Japanese HairStyle!! (Or East-Asian for that matter...)

Let's go on to something that's really cute! Kapibara-San!

Even more Kapibara-Sans, now in smaller cuter versions!
A giant Pocky =)

Ruido (I don't know what this place is, but this one is for the YUI fans. Inside joke)

Look, Detective Conan and his friends are running to you~~~ =)

Guitar shop, but it was closed.

Just like the Shoe-store, with Nikes and SPX shoes.

Dotombori, Osaka's food-district.

We could have eaten this, but we didn't. It looks delicious though!

Instead we went for the Osaka-Famous-Food: Okonomiyaki!
This specific restaurant had a very unique way of ordering. You got to use an electic pen to scan/touch the menuplate to order it.


I forgot to put the mayonaise!! stupid.

After we eat (They messed up our orders sort of at the restaurant, so it turned out a bit late) we went home. On our back way home I noticed this peculiar thing.
Turns out, there are metros parts for women only.


Peace!!

Photo wa Shashin desu =)

Shashin means photo in Japanese...just so you know.

Anyway the UPDATE photos of the previous Post.

Also: Go read HMT's Blog for the detailed schedule of what we did on what day. Since his blog is more clearer and straighforward than mines, and plus he'll update it everyday. Also he's using my photos anyway, so yeah. If mine blog fails you, go to his. I found myself going to his blog more frequently too. Omoshiroii ne...~~

Photos Startooo~~~

The street of our appartment

Our appartment's sign on the building.
Nice entrance of Weekly Mansion Otemae
Can't get enough of the signboards...

Our room at 4th floor
Japanese style, take off your shoes and change into the slippers

Japanese style, wash yourself first in front of the bathtub, then take the bath.
The room, with HMT checking his own blog, checking if he got any new messages =)
Bla bla bla...obviously...bed, tv bla bla bla


Diner for day our first day...bentoboxes
Grocery bought at FamilyMart
=)