I’m actually back in Canada at this point, but before I left I met with a good high school buddy to do a more scenic tour of Kyoto than I had before.
I visited more historical and cultural attractions this time than all the previous times put together! So this is back to the usual Japanese culture filled posts :). Click on for more sights and sounds straight from Kyoto!
Shrine at the end of the Philosopher's Path
Heya everyone,
It’s been a remarkably short 7 months. I can’t believe my work term is over already :O. It’s time to get ready to head back to Toronto. I guess it’s good timing as my blog has been winding down quite a bit too in terms of views. Hopefully, I’ve accomplished something significant during that time.
Gifts I received and not quite sure how to bring home
I went to meet up with a friend the other day in the hopes of easing his culture shock. It was a complete disaster as I was late and he got on the wrong train and we failed at meeting up.
Gundam in the Evening
However, we did manage to see one thing together, the Gundam. There’s been like 10 bazillion shots of this thing already, but I thought I might as well add mine to the pool.
Sorry, I don’t have much to post today due to a lack of time, but I did see something today that was pretty special, at least to me. I know most of you have probably seen this pictures from multiple sources already, but I thought I’d put my limited photography skills to the test and take a few pictures that would stand out.
My attempt at a good Gundam Picture
Sorry, just one picture for now. I need to fix my chronic hard disk space problem. Yes yes, delete the porn I know the jokes :P.
Sorry, I haven’t been posting recently, but I’ve been super busy finishing up the work that was left to me after Obon. I do have yet another post about travel :D. This time it’s the Isumi Konata house in Satte, Saitama. It’s a recently opened “tourist attraction” where the district is attempting to draw anime fans and their spending to the area by refurbishing a house in a manner that is consistent with Isumi Konata’s house from Lucky Star. If you are a Lucky Star fan that’s planning on going, I strongly suggest you bring someone with you that knows Japanese.
The taxi driver was lost, but once I saw the mailbox I knew we were there.
For those who don’t know, Comiket takes place twice every year and is the largest anime/manga related expo in the world. It’s set up like a market place where booths sell large amounts of goods, commerical and indie ones. It takes place at the Tokyo Big Sight in Odaiba, Tokyo from 10AM-4PM on for three days. It draws around 550,000 participants, so it is not to be underestimated. I have never seen bigger lines in my life.
I guess I’ll provide a bit of a brief article on Comiket 76 and my experience to hopefully help out other people who are heading there without experience to make this more interesting.
The line at 12:45AM
Heya everyone,
In an effort to post more often, I’m going to make a post about what I did today :). I attended a live concert starring May’n (メイン） or May Nakabayashi at Zepp Nagoya. I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned having tickets for this concert on my blog, mainly because I forgot I had the tickets until the day before yesterday, oops :P.
Sorry Miku, I'm not listening to your songs this time.
Heya, I seem to be averaging one post every 4 days or so, which is pretty terrible. Nonetheless, I’m very grateful for all 3o or so of you who read my blog :).
Today’s post is about Hinamizawa Shirakawa Village, which is located in the northern corner of Gifu prefecture and about 250 kilometers away from Nagoya. Most of you probably don’t know, but Shirakawa village also happens to be the village that Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and its sequel Kai was based on. I hope I’m not imagining the resemblance :P.
Hinamizawa...
Hinamizawa... no I mean Shirakawa
I just realized that I haven’t written a post about Japan in a long time, oops. So today, will be a post about the trip I went on last month. I went to the town of Mishima in the Shizuoka prefecture. Note that in the case of Japan, “town” means an urban area of 100,000 people. From most other countries, that would be a major city. Anyway, read on from for a small account of my trip.
Heya guys,
I posted a while ago about getting tickets to a FictionJunction Live, but the event finally happened on wednesday, woohoo! The concert was GREEAATTTTTT, now my FictionJunction and Kalafina mp3’s all sound markedly dull compared to the life performance. I have no idea how to report an event where I was banned from taking pictures at, but I’ll give it a shot.
eew that was a bad pic. Stupid auto mode.
A Foreigner's Tale in Japan 
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