quick update!
oh busy week indeed! Just realised I hadn't fed the blog for some time, so decided to log in and update! I'll try and keep it brief!
monday: checked out a few more temples in kyoto, including the very impressive kiyomizu-dera temple: a huge temple set in the steep hillsides of kyoto, featuring an impressive balcony that overlooks the enitre city (pretty much!). The night was spent in the communal living area, aided by various japanese snack-foods and cheap japanese beer. Good fun!
tuesday: bummed about most of the day as it was extremly hot (32 degrees C plus), and we were due to take an overnight bus back to tokyo. We decided to check out a few more temples though..so many temples indeed!
wednesday: a warm yet early welcome to the energetic metropolis that is tokyo. Later on we met up with some 'old' friends that we'd met in tokyo, and decided to head out to a local raamen bar (like noodle soup, very tastey!). It was a good laugh, and excellent to meet up with 'old friends' again!
thursday: hung out with the canadians as it was their final day of Japanese life: we bid them fairwell with an outing to a local burger shop. Pretty fun actually!
friday: By now most of the friends I'd made had fled Japan, and a lot of the new arrivals seemed a bit geeky (including a mass of american anime geeks who dont take kindly to pokemon jokes..). It was pissing it down with rain too, so I wasn't too chirpy. Fortunately I remembered about a map some guy had made me a few weeks back: a map to 'ochanomizu', a district of tokyo packed with music shops. So, with map in pocket I hit the rain filled streets in search of some jamming. And jamming I found!
Saturday: Hung out with a group of strange finnish guys - great fun! On the night 8 or 10 of us decided to head out and party and the infamous 'Roppongi' seemed to be the favoured destination...initally I wanted to bail, but decided it could be fun..good call! The brief night out quickly evolved into a 6am train home, featuring numerous bars, plenty of alcohol, lots of people, strange japanese guys, assertive japanese girls, a massage parlour...oh the list goes on! Probably stories best told in person ;)
Sunday: along with a fellow Brit I'd just met, 4 finnish guys and 2 Americans, I headed out to the district of 'Harajuku' to spot the goths, lolitas and other strange creatures that systematically emerge every sunday. It was an impressive sight actually, and cool in its own way to see everyone having a laugh in their bizzarre clothing and make up. Afterwards we visited a park which again was populated by goths but also some live bands - an excellent atmopshere, reminded me a lot of my fun time in osaka! There was also a large group of teddy boys which was hilarious!
Shortly after enjoying the numerous bands we spotted a bunch of university basketball teams preparing for a match: a match that would kick off in 30 minutes, so we grabbed tickets and ran into the impressively scaled stadium. Ah, my first basketball game, and in Japan of all places! The game was great, and the crwod were strange: supporting their teams in a polite and ordely manner..a total contradiction to the 2 Americans sat with me: "woo! You suck" ..and so forth, haha.
Today: not done a lot really..moved to a new hotel, and it seems pretty decent here actually! Due to meet up with some friends for more raamen in a bit!
monday: checked out a few more temples in kyoto, including the very impressive kiyomizu-dera temple: a huge temple set in the steep hillsides of kyoto, featuring an impressive balcony that overlooks the enitre city (pretty much!). The night was spent in the communal living area, aided by various japanese snack-foods and cheap japanese beer. Good fun!
tuesday: bummed about most of the day as it was extremly hot (32 degrees C plus), and we were due to take an overnight bus back to tokyo. We decided to check out a few more temples though..so many temples indeed!
wednesday: a warm yet early welcome to the energetic metropolis that is tokyo. Later on we met up with some 'old' friends that we'd met in tokyo, and decided to head out to a local raamen bar (like noodle soup, very tastey!). It was a good laugh, and excellent to meet up with 'old friends' again!
thursday: hung out with the canadians as it was their final day of Japanese life: we bid them fairwell with an outing to a local burger shop. Pretty fun actually!
friday: By now most of the friends I'd made had fled Japan, and a lot of the new arrivals seemed a bit geeky (including a mass of american anime geeks who dont take kindly to pokemon jokes..). It was pissing it down with rain too, so I wasn't too chirpy. Fortunately I remembered about a map some guy had made me a few weeks back: a map to 'ochanomizu', a district of tokyo packed with music shops. So, with map in pocket I hit the rain filled streets in search of some jamming. And jamming I found!
Saturday: Hung out with a group of strange finnish guys - great fun! On the night 8 or 10 of us decided to head out and party and the infamous 'Roppongi' seemed to be the favoured destination...initally I wanted to bail, but decided it could be fun..good call! The brief night out quickly evolved into a 6am train home, featuring numerous bars, plenty of alcohol, lots of people, strange japanese guys, assertive japanese girls, a massage parlour...oh the list goes on! Probably stories best told in person ;)
Sunday: along with a fellow Brit I'd just met, 4 finnish guys and 2 Americans, I headed out to the district of 'Harajuku' to spot the goths, lolitas and other strange creatures that systematically emerge every sunday. It was an impressive sight actually, and cool in its own way to see everyone having a laugh in their bizzarre clothing and make up. Afterwards we visited a park which again was populated by goths but also some live bands - an excellent atmopshere, reminded me a lot of my fun time in osaka! There was also a large group of teddy boys which was hilarious!
Shortly after enjoying the numerous bands we spotted a bunch of university basketball teams preparing for a match: a match that would kick off in 30 minutes, so we grabbed tickets and ran into the impressively scaled stadium. Ah, my first basketball game, and in Japan of all places! The game was great, and the crwod were strange: supporting their teams in a polite and ordely manner..a total contradiction to the 2 Americans sat with me: "woo! You suck" ..and so forth, haha.
Today: not done a lot really..moved to a new hotel, and it seems pretty decent here actually! Due to meet up with some friends for more raamen in a bit!
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