I lost the cellphone I was using for blogging… So this space has become much more quiet, and is likely to stay so until the end of the trip in seven days.
I came back to Kyoto on Friday after traveling around Mt Fuji, and am moving to Osaka tomorrow Sunday. I’ll stay there until April 10th, when I’ll fly back to Seoul. Finally, I’ll fly back to Berlin on April 12th. Talk to you all when I’m back home :-)
Capsule hotels are really not that bad… And they’re flexible and cheap.
Insert your money, select your food and drinks, get your change back, and give the receipt to the waiter. Luckily I could see how the person before me did it
I suspect they inject some sleeping gas in the metro wagons… Or else Japanese people have a great capacity at sleeping in transports.
Note, they’re not all surgeons, it’s just that nobody covers his mouth when coughing here, hence the masks (my immune system is probably over-trained by now).
In front of the Divercity mall in Tokyo.
Gundam was (is?) a popular series here.
Fake buildings
Fake stones on the floor
Fake sky
Venus fort shopping center in Tokyo
At dusk because days end really early here
You have to queue to enter some shops
Poster in the Tokyo metro. You get a similar warning when logging in the free wifi in train stations - apparently accidents of this type are common
Now I have to figure out how it’s actually called
Although the temple density in Tokyo is not as high as in Kyoto, there are still quite many if them.
Every restaurant has those in their front window here.
Japan apparently has a big knife crafting tradition
After visiting “electric city” yesterday (filled with electronics shops), we see “kitchenware city” today.
There are already quite many people in Ueno park on Friday, this weekend it’s probably going to be packed with people celebrating “hanami”
You’ll certainly take a second serving of pork rectum?
Apparently the dream of any kid in Japan
Tokyo here I come!
Fushimi Inari Shrine
Up: how it should look like Down: how it looks like painted by me
Shake the rope, bow twice, clap twice, bow once again
Seen in the food section of the Daimaru department store. For the record, 1000 yens are 7 euros.
I should see more of them in Kyoto
1,5 days of trekking are waiting for me there.
It almost feels like rainforest already
The maps from the Open Street Maps project have been an invaluable help so far
Fukuoka is a fairly nice city so far, except maybe for the swarms of bike riding at full speed on the sidewalks… The street is apparently too dangerous, and they don’t have bike lanes either.
Yes, those are all fish stalls
With many shops playing K-Pop at full volume as a bonus
While listening to Boney M
No space is lost in book shops
