If You Put Kyoto Backwards, it's Tokyo!!

Kyo - to
To - kyo

See =)

Today's plan was Himeji-Castle. But we didn't make it. So we end up going to Kyoto again!
This is my 4th time. I rather see Osaka. I've been to Kyoto 4 times now, but Osaka, the place I live, just once! (I mean the central area ofcourse)
Tomorrow we'll go to Kobe, and maybe in the evening I'll try to go to Osaka.
I've found out that RUIDO is actually a Live House!! Maybe I'll check it out.

Wallpapers of male-idols-popstars-artists and the like.
No girls?

I took this picture cause today I haven't made enough. So I just made one to fill up the post. =P
This was at Shin-Osaka station, if I remember correctly.

Sayonara.

There will be some general Japanese related posts coming up ahead, rather than just report-style.

I'm going to sleep now =)

Bye Bye, Ja Mate!

Yukata Is The Way

Retrospective bloggin' again

Saturday 8 August [Kyoto, ShinKyoGokiDori]
Saturday we went seperated ways. I still needed to go to Kyoto to buy some stuff (Yukata's and some other things) and HMT was going to Osaka.

Funny thing, that day a lot of people wore Yukata's. Must be some special day.
Every girl should wear a Yukata. Well guys should too actually. But A Yukata looks really nice. It's tradional and fashionable too! Even Gajins can where it.

Before I go, ofcourse some Lipton Ice Tea Peach.
View from the Shinkansen.

Back to the popular youngsters area. SHINKYOGOKU

A youthfull couple walking in Shinkyogoku.

They also got Claire's.

Manga shop too.

Different shirts with different text like: "Basketball Spirit" " I play my music with soul" and more of these kind of text.

Back home, bought something to eat at 7Eleven.

Time to show my new shoes!

Pretty cool ne~~?

Bye.

(I really really thought this was my last day in Kyoto, I had no need to go to there again. But it turns out I was going to see more of Kyoto than Osaka...)

Kyoto's Story or How To Sidetrack on Your Vacation

Retrospective bloggin' continue...

Friday 7 August Kyoto by day (Teramachi, ShinKyoGokuDori)

So the next day we went back to Kyoto, determined to visit all the Shrines, Temples, Castles and all those other things we are so interested in...

And the rest is history...

Cause we sidetracked!! Like always. But there's this funny thing, when we side track we always end up somewhere very cool.

Our first day in Osaka, we somehow ended up in Osaka's Youth District ShinSaiBashiSuji.

Now in Kyoto, again, we end up in on of Kyoto's Youth area, ShinKyoGokuDori.

It must be our youngsters instinct that led us there.

But before we got there we walked through, what I would call "trademark" japan streets. With all those typical houses and electricity poles.

Too many wires, but it makes a nice photo. =)

Shopping area with Teramachi and ShinKyoGokuDori. These streets are along the big road Kawamarachi-dori. (At the crossing with Sanjo-Dori)

Teramachi got a lot of traditional cultural Japanese stuff...

Like windchimes.

Others...

More...

And right at the moment we didn't expect it, we saw this. A shrine...err...of some sort. Rather small one, but still. It was right in-between the shopping streets...

Traditional...

The local cinema...with a lot of films like HP6, but also this new anime film. Which I don't know.

Guitar shop...Grabbing machines!!

As you might have read on HMT's blog, he wanted to SlamDunk bag (like all of the SD fans) Well unfortunately for him, it was a &*#()@$& Scam. The CDbox which you should try to get off the platform is STICKED/TAPED! I can't believe everyone is trying it. Well maybe you CAN get it off, but it will take some time.

I myself, also played these grabbing machines. But the ones I choosed are not taped. And guess what, I won!! I've won a Suzimiya Haruhi figure!! Yeah Suzimuya Haruhi S.O.S Brigade Go For The Win!!

A toy/anime/manga shop with a lot of small figures and stuff.

There were that many, You couldn't even find the one you just saw.

Afterwards it was time to go back, we were hungry. There is this very small foodplace, but it's really popular. Everyday I see people lining up for it (I know this cause I've been to this place a lot). I never tried it myself, but it seems to be fried fish (like in Fish and Chips) for 2oo yen. I should have tried it.

Back in Osaka >>> Curry Rice, just around the corner.

Watch manga while you eat.

I never expected me to come back to Kyoto for the 3rd and 4th time...

(See next posts)

Only By The Night

We're gonna do some retrospective blogposting here...

Thursday 6 August [Kyoto, Gion, Yakasuka Shrine]
Woke up pretty late. Reason? HMT set the morning alarm on vibrate only mode. Which means nobody heared it. -___-"

But still you got to eat breakfast. Milk Tea, with white sanwhich with egg. And a bread with curry in it.

Midday lunch in evening would look like this. Onigiri with green otcha.

So we went to Gion, the Geisha place. But it was dark, we were tired, so we didn't paid attention as to how to go there 'exactly'. So we went out in Kyoto Station and actually tried to walk there. (In hindsight it proved there was actually a much more easier way: taking the other subwayline, which we will found out later).

So we walked through the, what seems to be deserted, streets of the surrounding 'villages' around Kyoto. Trying to get to Gion, the Geisha place.

Then we saw, obviously, vendingmachines. But I took the photo because of 'Suntory'. As we all know by the film 'Lost In Translation' by Sofia Coppola, with Bill Murray and Scarlett Johannson, about the alienation in Japan (and in life). Anyway if you've seen that film, then yeah you'll know what I mean.

Kyoto streets by the night. If I think of Japan, this would be one of the trademark images that would come in my head.

But all the things eventually will come to an good end. And so it is with us, eventually we did reach Gion district. And we ended up in Yakasuka Shrine, which was right in front of a very long car way. As you can see on this beatifull photo.

Take a wish, write it down, and hang it on the branches.

Make a wish, write it down, and hang it on the wall.

A lot of nice wishes I've seen. =)

I wish for that all the good wishes by all the nice people will come true!